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To the Hon. Post Master General,
We the undersigned, Citizens of Kendall County, State of Illinois, would represent: that whereas, the mail route, No. 4317, from Ottawa to Cass, does not afford the facilities to us, that it would, if continued through to Chicago, a distance of about 22 miles fartherPray, that said route be continued to Chicago, ^via Flag Creek & Lyon,s^ believing also that said change, will be beneficial to the Department, by an increase of mail matter, We do farther pray, that it be carried by a two horse conveyance, it being too heavy, for one horse, twice a week.
We would ever pray &c.Lisbon Ill March 7 1848
J. D. Sherrill Nelson Cobleigh
E. A. Hill R Wing A. W Raymond
L. B. Jefferson B Wing Alvah Day
N. W. Sherrill M Wing Charles C. Wright
E S. Williams B Suttler J. F. Moore
H. M. Barstow. G. L. Collins E S McEwen
P K Felton W. M. Gage Reuben Hurd
John B Cody S Collins Daniel Godwin
Benjm. F. Hall J Bayly Sylvester C Langdon
J. E. Waterman E D Kellogg William Creig
Thomas Spencer Carles Knox Benjamin B Hall
Samuel C Collins E W Chapin Lewis Sherril
A [B?]. Taylor E Gifford S. C. Hensdill
George Duckworth E. H. Raymond
Oscar Barstow L Watterman Ransom Baker
J W Bushnell J Watterman Charles Page
Eli. H. Webster E Taylor Levi Pierce
W. R. Cody M Clark George Sidlow
E C West Simon Frye Russell D Hills
William Atchison John W Hills
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Illinois
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Mr Wentworth presented the petition of Kendall Co for the extension of the present mail route No 4317. from Ottawa via Plainfield to Cass so as to run via Flag Creek & Lyons to Chicago.
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April 15, 1848 Referred to the Committee on the Post office and Post Roads.
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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,