To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representativ[es?] of the United States in Congress assembled
the subscribers citizens of the county of Mercer state of Pennsylvania respectfully
pray your honorable bodies that the provisions in the Act of Congress of March 3d 1847 requiring postage to be paid on all newspapers circulating in the mails within
30 miles of the office of publication be repealed and that such other modifications
of said act be made as shall more effectually provide for a uniform system of cheap
postage on letters &c.
| J. Byers | Wm L McBurney |
| Luke Irwin | John Nelson |
| David Clingan | James Wandle[?] |
| James Scott | J S Leyth |
| Saml McFarland | |
| James Dawson | David McCrea[?] |
| William Thompson | Wm Simons |
| Wm R Harral | Robt Wm Oliver |
| Ebenezer Thompson | L S. C[?]ing |
| Francis Farrel | Thos Wason |
| W. H. Alexander | [?] [?] |
| John Thompson | Thomas McConnel |
| Robert Patterson | Wm A. McFarland |
| John C. Cotton | |
| Daniel Gearharte | |
| William Byers | |
| Sydney Mosferd | B Caly And[?] |
| Jas White | Samuel Patterson |
| M H McBurney | John Gilkey |
| Wm Mitcheler | |
| Wm Baird | John Gearhart |
| Jas. Oliver | |
| Mathew Block | |
| Joseph Brown |
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Petition of citisens of Mercer County Pennsyl[?] for repeal of Law requiring postage on Newspapers circulating within 30 miles of publication and for such further modification of the Laws as will more effectially provide for cheap postage
Petition of citisens of Mercer County Pennsyl[?] for repeal of Law requiring postage on Newspapers circulating within 30 miles of publication and for such further modification of the Laws as will more effectially provide for cheap postage
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December 20 1847 Referred to the committee on Post offices and Post Roads
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to be referred to Committee on Post offices and Post roads
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J. W. Farrelly
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