The Petition of the undersigned Citizens of Lycoming & Sullivan Counties, respectfully represent: That they labour under many disadvantages for want of a mail Rout from Williamsport, the County Seat of Lycoming County, along the valley of the Loyalsock Creek, to Cherry, in Sullivan County, That letters and communications must now go a round of near one hundred miles, to reach one of the aforesaid points, if sent from the other. That until the erection of suitable buildings by the Commissioners, which may not be for many years, the public offices, and County buisness, will be situated and transacted at Cherry. That the country along loyalsock creek, is becoming thickly settled, and the citizens labour under great inconveniance of a proper mail facility.

We therefore pray your honorable bodies to pass a law, establishing a weekly mail between the points aforesaid, and we will pray &c