To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled.
The petition of the undersigned citizens of the counties of Montgomery, Bucks and Lehigh, in the State of Pennsylvania.
Respectfully Sheweth, That whereas our community labor under an inconveniance for want of a Mail route between the village of Sumnytown, in the county of Montgomery, and the village of Emaus, in the county of Lehigh, a distance of Eightteen miles, and whereas a line of Stages have recently been established and are now running regularly three times a week between those places, We, the undersigned, do respectfully pray your honorable bodies to establish a mail rout between Sumnytown and Emaus, the above mentioned places, the mail to be carried three times a week each way in Stages, and we will pray &c,
Georg [Hull?]
Enos Benner Jacob [Kemner?]
Danl Jacoby Jacob Reed
John Schell Solomon Artman
Jonas [L Boyer?] Joseph Groff
Michel C Boyer
Madison Craig William R Cressman
Daniel [Thompson?] Samuel D Rudy
John D, Apple Nathl Jacoby.

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Henry Buck Jonas R. [Heilhibeitel?]
[?]
John McElroy
[?] Reeder
Charles Reed
[?]
Francis, D, Hart[sell?] Miller
Adam [Neigly?]
[?]
Hiram Hartranft
Henry Shuler
Gottlieb [?]
Tobias Shuler
Fredric [Barneat?]
Thomas Keller
Frederick K. Smith
Jacob Bayer
Amos [?]
Jacob [Lear?]
Jesse Bray
E H Sellerson
Leidy Sholl
[?]
[?]
Jacob Kriebel

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Jacob [K?] Smith
Benjamin A Price
Samuel Smith P, M,
[?]
Mahlon K. Smith
Samuel [Stever?]
Willem Ganges
[ ?]Jacob Harley
T. [?]
Philip C. Otto.
George Weiss
Jacob. Hoese.
William H Smith
[?]
David [?]
Samuel Yoder
L. M Rich
P, Hahn
Wm M. Jacob
[...?]

Handwritten Document Signed, 3 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,