To the Honorable the senate and House of Representatives of the United States,
The undersigned inhabitants of the Counties of Will and Iroquois in the state of Illinois,
respectfully represent that the rapidly, growing importance of the section of the
country we inhabit in business and population, in our judgment claims of the national
Legislature an increase of mail facilities in opening new channels of intercomunication between the interior, And the great commercial 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, Will County Illinois and Lafayette in the State of Indiana;
And Your Petitioners as in duty Bound &c &c
January 18th 1848,| Jacob Vanderkarr | |
| R J Boylan | George W Case |
| D J Shultz | John F Fairman |
| H, [W?] Spoor | |
| Wm J M Stevens | |
| Wm Pritchard | |
| Stephen E. Bowen | |
| James Bowen | |
| Francis [K?] Whitmore | |
| F. Goodspeed | |
| W G Davis | |
| Daniel McGilivray | |
| Joseph Shoemaker | |
| A, W, Bellga[rd?] | |
| Marvin Wilder | |
| James Byrns | |
| Charles F Dilley | |
| Junius Dilley | |
| H [W?] Dille | |
| Danial [Hessier?] |
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Illinois
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Mr Wentworth presented the petition of citizens of Jackson Creek, Will Co, Ills, for
a mail route from Lafayette Joliet to Lafayette
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March 28, 1848 Referred to the Committee on the Post Office & Post Roads
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Refer to Com of P. O. & P R
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Wentworth
Handwritten Document Signed, 2 page(s), RG 233, Entry 367: Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, Thirtieth Congress, 1847-1849, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents Which Were Referred to Committees, 1847-1849, NAB,