To the Honorable Senate & House of Representatives of the United States.
The undersigned citizens of Washington & Athens Counties Ohio, hereby petition your Honorable Body for the following alteration in the mail rout between Athens in Athens County & Harmar in Washington County, viz: Vacate so much of said rout as lies between Federalton & Constitution Post offices, & establish a new rout between said offices on the “Free Turnpike road, leading from the mouth of Federal Creek in Athens County, to Bayley,s Ferry in Washington County, & establish the following post offices on said rout, & appoint the following named persons Post Masters, viz: Decatur, in Decatur Township Philip Shrader jr, Post Master, Veto, in North Belpre, Daniel Shaw, Post Master, Glendale, in Warren Township Abisha Cole Post Master. And also extend the mail rout between Harmar & Gallopolis from Coolville, where it now intersects the mail rout, first above mentioned to the said Constitution office
Samuel Knox Warren Root James Jonson
Thomas Mclaughlin Richard Cook Eras [Tisneevel?]
Joh Isaac Shrader Samuel Lappin Bengamen Wyer
Worthy Johnson Bengamen [?]
James Smith
John Gideons Wm Burnside James Wyer
C J Lorains David Shrader Henry Dortin
Joseph Wilson Shelton Dunbar Rodom Wyer
A J Hayner John Irwin Francis W [Krozby?]
Neil McTaggart
Mordecai Thomas Neil McKay jr Jas Ormiston 3d
John Miles James McKay George Beswick
A Johnson Neil McKay Wm H Bishop
Horace Root Chas Cooper
Oliver Root Philip Biddeson
Wm Cooky Jas Mendenhall
Thos Biggins

Handwritten Document Signed, 1 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,