The undersigned, your petitioners citizens of the county of Whitley and ^Huntington^ State of Indiana, Represent, that—The citizens of said county Especially in the south part of the same, are laboring under great inconvenience in the consequence of having no mail matter passing through said section of the country, They would further represent that the south part of said county is fast settling, and that there is at the present time a very important thoroughfare passing through said county from Huntington to the county[...?] seat of said County of Whitley and that no mail passes through on said thoroughfare although the same would be of the utmost utility—, your petitioners therefore pray your Honorable body to grant and establish a mail route rto run from the Town of Huntington in Huntington county to the Town of Columbia the county seat of the county of Whitley, to run on the most direct travelled route or road as aforesaid

And your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray