The petition of the Subscribers, Citizens of the County of Armstrong, in the State of Pennsylvania, respectfully Sheweth:

That your petitioners labour under great inconveniences, for want of a Mail-route, leading from Kittanning, in Armstrong County, by way of Cochran’s Mill, to Apollo, in the aforesaid County, (a distance of about twenty-four miles) and for want of a Post-Office, at Cochran’s Mill, (to be called Cochran’s Mill Post Office.) Your petitioners would further respectfully Show; that the Country, through which Said Mail-route would pass, is thickly Settled, and that the nearest Post Office is about eight miles from Cochran’s-Mill, and that a proposition has been made to carry the Mail over Said route, for the revenue arising therefrom. Your petitioners therefore respectfully pray your honourable body, to pass a law, establishing Said Mail-route and Post office, and your petitioners as in duty bound will pray &c.