Your petitioners, (being citizens of the counties of Boon Fayette & Kanawha) humbly represent that they be live in a section of country remote from any Post Office or mail route and that they suffer great inconvenience in consequence of the delay experienced in the reception of communications through the Post Office.

They represent that the nearest Post Office to which they have access is that of Cole River Marshes on the one hand and Lens Creek on the other; and these two Offices are seperated by a distance of about Sixty five miles. The Whole Country between these offices is densely populated and in which a large amount of business of various kinds is transacted and particularly at the points most remote from either of the offices.

Most of your petitioners when they have communications1 of importance to send or receive through the Post Office are compeled to ride from twenty to thirty miles for want of proper mail facilities which is to them a Source not only of great inconvenience but also of considerable expence

Your petitioners therefore in order to remedy this inconvenience under which they labour pray the passage of a law establishing

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a mail route from Lens Creek Post Office in the county of Kanawha Va up Lens Creek and down Toney’s Branch to Big Cole River and up said River to the Post Office in Cole River Marshes in the county of Fayette.

They recommend a two weeks mail along said route and that Post Offices be established thereon at the following points at Lemuel Jarrell’s in the county of Fayette at Augustus Packs in the county Boon & at Robert Toney’s in said county. And as in duty bound your petitioners will ever pray &,C.