To the Hon. Members of Congress of the United States,
December 9th 1848
Your petitioners would respectfully ask your attention to the consideration of the
propriety of the changing of a Mail Route recently established from Canton Madison
County Missi via, Denson’s store and Hillsboro Scott County to Carthage & Hoparka
in Leake county. Your petioners would respectfully ask that the route be changed so as to include a New post office
to be called, Bulluctah, Post Office. Your petitioners would respectfully represent
to your honorable body that this arrangement will not lengthen the route, more than
Five1 or Six Miles and will not in any respect disconcert the present arrangement of said
route, and your petitioners would respectfully show that a large number of citizens
are laboring under very great disadvantages on account of not having a Post Office
convenient and by said arrangement your petitioners can obtain letters papers, and
important documents at least one week earlier than we now obtain them. Your petitioners
would farther set forth That said Post office is desired to be established at ^P. M. ^ Gaddis’ store in Leake County and that We reccomened said P. M Gaddis as
Leake County Mi<Page 2>
Post Master. Your earliest action is respectfully requested for which your petitioners
will ever pray
December 9th 1848
Walter. Mc[Beth?] | |
Zack L. Ratcliff | |
J H Boteler | E. F. Gaddis |
W S Henson | Jeremiah Field |
Abner. J. Parrott | Spire W Alforod |
O. H. P. Davis | James H Chambers |
E. T: Smith | O[ |
John Fletcher | J L, Rutherford |
James Cottonham | James G Johnson |
George Cagle | Samuel Johnson |
R M White | A. R. Robbins |
[ |
John [Wartness?] |
Giles Berry | Jos. G. Martin |
G W [Noell?] | T. J. Gill |
John Collinson | David Rawls |
William. D. Smith | John Arledge |
T. P. Thompson | Wm Herrington |
Noah Lawhorn | J W Gill |
Willis A Wilbur | M. P, Rogers |
Asa Fletcher | Christopher Wear |
James L. Brown | Alanson Keith |
[Ulysses?] Saxon | |
<Page 3>
|
|
Saml Eune | |
Lewis Sparkman, | |
Dempsey Sparkman, | |
Jethro Eune | |
Wylie White | |
G. M. L. T. White | |
B. L. McClendon | |
Sioul Henry | |
T, R, [Golden?] |
<Page 4>
[ docketing
]
Miss.
[ docketing
]
Petition of J. H. Boteler & 49 other citizens of Leake co. Miss. for a change in
the Mail route from Canton to Hillsboro & Carthage and the Establishmt. of a P. O.
at P. M. Gaddis in Leake co. to be called Bulluctah
[ docketing
]
Refd. Comm P O & P R
[ docketing
]
January 17 1849 Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.
[ docketing
]
√
[ docketing
]
Tompkins.
Handwritten Document Signed, 4 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,