To the Honerable Senate and House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States,
We the Undersigned citizens of the County of Clinton in the State of Indiana, your
petitioners would respectfully ask the passage of a ^law^ granting a mail Rout from Jefferson P.O. in said County to the town of Hamilton in said County a distance
of five miles and your petitioners will ever pray &c.
January 1st 1849.| Daniel Bauer | |
| Thomas Major | Joseph Hanes |
| Moses Davis | Jesse Blacklidge |
| Jacob Platt | Daniel Haines |
| Jacob Stetler | John Henders |
| L. k Packer | Cornilus Stetler |
| John E Packer | Josiah [D?]evoss |
| Wm Stutler | Solomon [D?]evoss |
| James Gamble | James Whitesel |
| David Garling house | Alexander [ |
| Solomon Miller | Robert Gamble |
| Cyrus Bennett | Enos Starky |
| Hiram Summ[ers?] | Isaac Stetler |
| John Sloan | [ |
| John gallinger | |
| David Hyger | |
| Benjamin gallinger | |
| John gallinger | |
| Wm Bennett | |
| Abel Slaback | |
| Henry Smith | Jacob Miller |
| William Bishell | Jacob Edenburn |
| John [?]mel | John Nance |
| T. A. Lamson Hamar | Tobias Whitesel |
| Samuel Hammel | Jonas P. Clark |
| Nathaniel S. Nance | |
| Jacob Hoffman | |
| Jacob Shafer | |
| Hezekiah Slaback | |
| Waldren Drew | |
| William Starkey | |
| Nicholas Buck | |
| Jacob Bailor | |
| James L Hackard | |
| John Clendinning | |
| Charles Clendening | |
| Josiah Newburn | |
| Arthur Clendening | |
| John Hamilton | |
| Joseph A Shaw | |
| Thomas Cavender |
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The petition of Thomas Major and others ^citizens of Clinton Co^ praying for the establishment of of Post route from Jefferson to Hamilton in Clinton Co. Ind. Refer to comt. on the P.O.
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February 20, 1849 Referred to the Committee on the Post office and Post Roads
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John Pettit
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