The Petition of the undersigned citizens of Anderson District in the State of South Carolina respectfully sheweth to your Hon^ble Bodies the great inconvenience to which we are subjected in consequence of the meagre mail facilities afforded to uswe therefore pray you to establish a new, mail route commencing at Anderson courthouse and passing by the following offices in the order in which they are named Seneca Centreville Steeles, Churubusco, & Millwees and back to Anderson C. H., the starting point. All the offices above enumerated will be newly created by the establishment of the Route except Steeles & Anderson C H, The distance from Anderson C. H. to Seneca is 8 miles and the nearest office on any other route is Andersonville 7½ miles from Seneca to Centreville is 6 miles from Centreville to Steeles isfivemiles, from Steeles, to Fer Churubusco isSevenmiles, and Slabtown ^is^ the nearest post office thereto at a distance offivemiles, from Churubusco to Millwees ^is^sevenis miles, and from thence to Anderson C H the starting point isSixmiles making the length of the entire route not more than39miles which can be accomplished in one day on horseback. The neighborhoods of all these post offices is densely populated with an intelligent people and the route will doubtless be a source of revenue rather than an expense to the post office department. For1 further information on the subject if it should be desired reference may be had to the Hon R. F. Simpson of the H. of R.

Your Petitioners would therefore humbly pray that

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a weekly mail Route, to pass weekly on horseback, may be established and our inconveniences thereby removed,