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RAIL ROAD TO THE PACIFIC.
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled:
The undersigned, citizens ofBurlington Vermontbelieving that the exigencies of the country require the means of direct and speedy intercourse between the Atlantic and Pacific sea-boards, and that the plan of Asa Whitney, Esq., of New York, for constructing a Rail Road from Lake Michigan to the Pacific is the only feasible mode of accomplishing this undertaking, and that such a Road must vastly increase the wealth, power and greatness of this country, respectfully petition your honorable body to set apart, during the present session, the strip of land prayed for by Mr. Whitney for that purpose, and thereby enable him to commence this great National Work immediately, before the lands are so much taken up as to render it impossible.
January, 1847 March 1848
Jno Peck
T. Follett. C. P. Peck
C. A. Stansbury W. H. [?]
Wm P Briggs
Edward J. Phelps. Rolla Stenson
S Underwood E. A.[Hand?].
A. G. Whittemore H. B. Smith
A. B. Maywood James W. Hickok
[?]
R. G. Hopkinson D. A. [Dudley?]
Alexr Catlin John B. Hollenbeck
[Nahum?] Shattuck Jacob Rolfe
John Carpenter
N. Parker Philip C Tucker
H. W. Mitchell. Henry Whitney
Samuel Nichols
Leonard [?] W. R. Vilus
Chas D Kasson Morillo Noyes.
[?] Brownell Francis Hand
C. Adams Hector Adams
T E Hales H Leavenworth
John N Pomeroy Guy C Sampson
Salmon [Wires?]
Lyman Cummings
Horace Ferris.
E. [W?]. Chase C. S. Kasson
Dan Lyon S. M. Pope
Geo. K. Platt. Edward [Philip?]
Wylley Lyman James H [Wooker?]
Jas. O’Grady Saml Huntington
Jas H. Allin L. E. Chittenden
Henry B. Stacy
J. S. Ware
L. P. [Blodgett?]
Elliot E. Kellogg
G. B. Straw. Wm Weston
H. D. Doane B. Bixford
Isaac Sherwood Chas F. Warren
Daniel. B. Hale Chas F Ward
Joshua Doane Geo. M. Hall
Henry Mayo 2d
Israel P. Richardson
H N Catlin
John. C. Griffin
J A. Arthur Jr
W. J. Odell D. A. Danforth
D. R. Buckley John Church
[M. C. Turner?]
Charles P. Allin John Price
Enos [?]
C P. [Geer?] Chas E. Follett.
S B Rockwell T. D. Chapman
Ira Shattuck Chas R. Herrick
E W Peck Wm T. Smith
J. H. Peck Byron Stevens
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Memorial of Citizens of Burlington Vermont, praying aid, in the construction of Whitney’s R Road
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April 24, 1848 Referred to the Select Committee on Whitney’s Rail Road
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Marsh
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Memorial of John Peck & others in favour of Whitneys Plan for a Railroad
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Special committee
G. P. Marsh

Partially Printed 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,