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To the Congress of the United States:
The undersigned citizens of the County ofOrleanswould hereby respectfully ask your Honorable Body to pass an act at the earliest practicable day, abolishing the entire franking privilege, and allowing the circulation by mail of all Newspapers within their respective Counties, or a distance of thirty miles, to subscribers, free of postage.
If the compensation of Members of Congress and other officers of government allowed the franking privilege is inadequate to their services without such privilege, let provision be made in some other way not liable to like abuse, and by so doing, in our opinion, the mails can be made the means of supplying every citizen with the Newspapers of his own locality free of postage, without any additional expense to that service.
Our institutions are founded upon the virtue and intelligence of the people; and this consideration alone should induce their representatives to furnish every possible means for the promotion of that end; and what so well calculated therefor as the free circulation of Newspapers within the respective Counties where published—a measure alike due to the publishers and to the people—And therefor we most earnestly ask and expect that you will grant these our most reasonable requests.
DatedAlbion Nov1847
H. R Curtis Henry. J. Sickels
Lemuel C. Paine Fred. R. Lord
A Smith Arad Thomas
[W. I.?] James Thos S. Clark
Gould B Sears
Ch[arles?] Nichols [?] Mason
[J?] Burrell Robert Dockeray
A G Bulee Wm Van Dusen
H C Wau[pond?] M. W. Randall
William. G. G[url?]borne Orville Thompson
Harmon Goodrich Wm Wm [Hickey?]
Philitus Bumpus Barnuel Farr
Perry Sickels
J. Mc.Allister John [Riel?]
Chas H. Smith O. Nichoson
Nelson Conly Jas Noble
Anthony Kerwin S Gates
Jezup Raymond H. D. Miller
G. [P.?] Hotchkiss J H. Hallenbaker
Peter F. Sickels
Elmer Platt H. E. Sickels
Israel [J?] Stiles
William H Dunham F F Crossett
G B Smith E S [Hovy?]
C P Ladd
R [Warner?] [H P?] Cooley
Elijah [?]er George Sipes
Asa Howard E L [Hoisingten?]
[L. H. Lewis?] Anson P. F[?]
C H Perkins G. H. Stone
Herman Curtis G W Sherman
Titus. H. Blackwell A Barrett Jr
Seneca Dunham Hiram Sickels
Saml McConnell Benjm Y Van Eps
[Palmer?] Cady [Jas?] Barnard
Arnold Comstock J D Shelden
Joseph Hoxse M. Bu[lto?]lph
Ira B Keeler M A Harrington
Abner [Bal-?] David Hall
John Churchwell Thos [H?] Perkins
Isaac U Sears H [?]ll
I. Kingsley L. [A?] Daniels
E. Gilbert E. S. Williams
Geo. Foreman J W. English
Lewis F. Butts
N. Davis Jr J. W. Murdock.
John Curtis A McAllister
J H Owen Walter Fairfield
L. H. Fassett Morrison Hawkins
H. H. Sickels James Gibbs
W. Noble E. Goodwin
C Freeman J Hadley
[Aram?] Buler J B Leonard
Henry Miller N. Bedell
Allen Hubbard George Kent
[Phabitus?] Bragg David H. Prince
C R Perry B. L. [Bessar?]
G W Liscom
H. H. Gardner Z. Clark
N Z Sheldon Robt Harvey
John D Kincaid
C. A. Harrington Benj Clapp
Nathan Root Jonathan Edgcomb
Myron Bushnell H. H. Howland
Jarvis Kimball W. H. Stodden
John Mattinson J A. Gilbert
Samuel D Baker R Crawford
William Carr H Wilson
G. R. Cady Amos [H?]ulsey
Peter Young
D G Wright H. Brink
A. B. Mills Walter Durken
T W Sherman R. W [Lewes?]
C. W King L Warner
V V Bullock E SNoble
A Gale D. V. Simpson
F. Doty J [Harris?]
[B?] [Chafford?] Charles Coly
Israel Isbell Gilbert H Beeman
Nichols Garbutt H Raymond
T [J?] Fanning Asher Flint
B Stacy P. E. Brower
J C Ledyard S. Burrell
[...?] M Ballard
[I Derrio?] Dan H. Cole
Pierson Morehouse Erastus Coats
Andrew I Keslar Charles C Graves
Isaac S. Clements Otis Heartwell
Chuck Hall
S. N. Tanner John W Randall
L. Noble
Charles. D. Lawrence [Berwin?] Bennett Jr
Harvey Goodrich Geo Porter
Ransom Babcock John D Chase
Jonn Elkins. George N Briggs
Samuel Buck Wm. H. Pendry
Benjamin F Harrison George Cox
Samuel Moore
Horace Hopkins Hiram Baker
Elias Bacon Oliver Brown
John Shaw G. A. Love
Thos [F?] Holland
A Lafferty Geo. H. Sickels
C. R. Tanner Edwd W. Cornes
S B Thurston [A?]. J. Grover
W Joclyn J. T. S. Wood
G. Gardner F. Fenton.
J. B. Linton Thos Williams
A Gilmore S. B. Rich
William McMaster
L R Post R. Hills
A. V. Clark James M Knight
A L Bennett
R. Potter F E Parmelee
A. J. Chester John Sanderson
Silas Bixby Seth Leonard
Albert B. Pullman
Stephen Weaver Hugh Byers
[H?] A King J A Luther
W. N. McHay. Elijah Billings
Anson N Sherwood M T Wendell
Jona. Whitney
Oliver M Barker Wm P. Shadders
N. F Daniels S. Bennett.
Jacob Annis
E. D. Bacon Jonathan Simonds
[Walter?] Harrington W L. Allen
E. T. Coon Pratt Buck
W. Mitchell D. W. Berry
[?]l Knowles C. N. St Clair
Asa Lowe Zerah Webb
Henry Sears G Close
Hiram C. White John Allen
John C Young
Nathan F Chapin Caleb Lyndon
E. J. Ward
Rufus Reed. B T Barker
Jeremiah Whitney
John Dix Anthony T. Johnson
William Hurt
Henry D. Bement Berry Chase
F M Darrow George G. Chase
[J. B.?] Oaks Thos J Clark
N Davis C. P. Allen
A H Hayward J W Hunt
H. T. Raymond
A H Tilton George Averill
P. P. Kidder
A J Ide T. S. Savage
H. C. Shadders
Samuel F. Hill. Justus C. French
Samuel [B?] Strong John E Shere
N. E. Ballon
C. Shafford Earl H Nichols
John Denio
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New York.
Petition of 282 citisens of Orleans Co. N.Y. Praying for the abolition of the Franking privilege & allowing the circulation of Newspapers within 30 miles of the place of publication free of Postage
S. Lawrence
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Dec 21 1847 Referred to the Committee on Post Offices & Post Roads
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30 Post of
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Sidney Lawrence

Partially Printed 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,