We the undersigned, freeman of the County of Windham and State of Vermont humbly pray that you would as soon a may be, by an act of your Hon. body establish a Mail Route from Wilmington through West Dover and a part of Somerset to Westwardsboro in said County of Windham, the distance of which, is about thirteen miles. The necessity of such a mail route is obvious from various considerations, some of which are the following. In consequence of the Vermont & Mass Rail Road coming to Brattleboro, and the Cheshire, and other Rail Roads to Bellowsfalls in this County, there will nessessarily have to be various new arrangements in our present mail facilities in this County. both for the convenience of the mail and passengers. We think that the public convenience will require, that, the present mail route from Wilmington, through Dover, Williamsville, Fayetteville and Brookline to Cambridgeport be discontinued, or materially altered, for as it now runs, it does not directly intersect with other mails or stages, so that the mail is not directly and promptly distributed, neither are passengers at all accommodated

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by it. Our proposed route will not only supersede the necessity of that, but will be a material improvement on that, not only as it respects the mail & passengers facilities, but as a matter of economy to Government, as the expense is transportation of the mail, a distance of only thirteen miles over a good road, will be but small, compared with that of over thirty miles over a very hilly road as that now runs, while the additional expense of supplying the offices with the mail, which are now supplied by that route, will be but trifling, the office at Dover can be supplied by a special mail from West Dover, probably at the same price that the office at West Dover is now supplied by a special mail from Dover, and the offices at Williamsville & Brookline may be supplyed by the Townshend & Brattleboro routes, for a small extra allowance. The public convenience and accommodation will be greatly enhanced from the fact that the mail will arrive & depart from West Wardsboro in connection with the mail from Arlington and the North West and with the mail from Bellowsfalls and the North East. And at Wilmington with the Southern mail to Western Mass and with the Eastern by the way of Bratttleboro

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to Boston, and with the Western by the way of Bennington [?]ay &c

finaly we believe that, it will be a very great public improvement in our mail facilities if your Hon. body shall grant us our request, which we as in duty bound, will ever pray.