The undersigned your petitioners would most respectfully represent that, we are subjected to the greatest privation and inconvenience for the want of mail facilities, The nearest Post office, Wilmington, is some twelve or fourteen miles distance, The citizens living further South and nearer the Southern boundry of the State, are subjected to Still greater privation and inconvenience

The undersigned are not unmindful, that the Post office department was designed to constitute no charge upon Government, and consequently Government Should observe the greatest caution in establishing knew routs, yet we hold the citizen has a just Claim upon his government for the ordinary means of intelligence, which is the great Boolwark of all free governments. The undersigned believe that a Post rout from Wilmington Arkansas to Marian Louisiana, would constitute no charge upon government, and yet accommodate some two hundred and fifty families, The country through which it would pass being rich & populous, We therefore ask it establishment, with an office at the house J. D. [Greenhaus?]. twelve miles from Wilmington, and also, an office at the house of Col Milton Reeser some ten miles south from [Greenhaus?].

We repeat that we have no hesitation in saying the rout will not only support itself, but be a source of revenue to the department, The rout asked for ^, granted^ the undersigned will ever pray.