The petition of the undersigned respectfully sheweth, that the citizens of Clark and Coles counties, State of Illinois, from York, in the first named county, via Melrose Martinsville, & Salisbury to Charleston, are destitute of proper mail facilities, and they therefore pray your honorable bodies to enact a law establishing a weekly mail ^ Route^ on the above named Route, arranging it so as to leave York in Clark county every Friday morning, & passing through the intermediate points above named, arrive at Charleston, ^on the same day,^ and thence back on next day to said place of starting, distant 40 miles. Your petitioners believe that said Route will fully pay the cost of its transportation &c And your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray.