The Petition of the Subscribers, citizens of the adjacent parts of Schuylkill & Carbon Counties, Respectfully showeth:

That in consequence of the want of a Mail Route between West Penn Post Office in the county1 of Schuylkill and Lehighton Post Office in the county of Carbon, they are much incommoded and prejudiced in their business and enterprise, the distance between the two points being 14 miles. The Road between the two points is a good public Road, and will connect important points. Letters to those along or within the scope of this route must necessarily be detained at the termina, creating perplexity and subjecting them to a great expense as well as loss of time. Letters from one point to the other reach their destination by wide circuits of Post Roads or by private accommodation or expresses, for all which reasons which concern a large population, your petitioners have been induced to pray your honorable bodies to grant them a Mail Route and establish the same according to law, and they will every pray &c.