To the honorable senate and house of Representative of the united states in congress assembled
The undersigned sitezons would respecfully represent that a mail rout is necessary for the accommodation of the inhabitants Living on said rout said rout commencing at otaway Lasal county Illinois from thence to munsontown from thence to Ross grove post office shubana grove post office The proposed office dekalb [r?]enten kingston post office from Thence to belvadere Boon county the distance is about seventy miles the inhabitants on this rout have suffered serious inconvencies by the nun establishment of a mailrout as above set fourth especially those at otaway and belvadere as there is no north and south mail rout bettween fox and rock rivers and many of the inhabitants on this rout Living from five to ten miles from a post office and your pertitioners would respecfully ask your honorable boddy to pass a law autherizing a mail rout as above set fourth and the mail to be carried there on three times a week ^and your pertioners^ in duty bound would ever pray
William Shepardson
Nathaniel Merritt
John Barringer
John M[Ratic?]
Geo. V. Minor
Eli [Kedden?]
Silvester [Amey?]
Merrill [Amey?]
J. P. Hitchcock
Daniel Hankins
John Hankins
Joseph Ross
Jonathan Hide

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La. Salle Co Ill.
Mr Wentworth presented a petition for a mail route from Belvidere via DeKalb Centre to Ottawa
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February 14, 1849 Referred to th[e?] Committee on the Post office and Post Roads.
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Wentworth

Handwritten Document Signed, 2 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