We the petitioners of Montgomery Calaway & Audrain Counties and State of Missouri do pray your Honorable Body for a Mail Rout, from Danville (Montgomery county) to Mexico (Audrain county) we pray for a weekly Mail on the State Road leading by Richd P. Adam’^s of Audrain and we pray Your Honorable Body to Establish post Office at the House of Richard. P. Adams and appoint the said R P Adams Post master as we labor under many disadvantages we ask of your Honorable Body to establish the said Rout as our Letters & newspapers go to Fulton Calaway county and there Remain two or three weeks before we can get them therefore in confidence of Redress we your humble petitioners will ever pray &c