The undersigned inhabitants of the Counties of Will and Iroquois, of the State of Illinois respectfully represent that the rapidly growing importance of the section ^of country^ we inhabit in business and population in our judgment claims of the national Legislature an increase of mail facilities in opening a channel of intercommunication between the interior and the great the great thoroughfare of our State, the Illinois and Michigan Canal; and to this end we pray your Honorable Body to establish a Mail Route between Joliet Illinois Will Co. Illinois and Lafayette of the State of Indiana. And thus your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray