PETITION.^from Schuylkill County.^

THE petition, of the undersigned citizens of the United States, respectfully represents that they view, as unnecessary and oppressive, the law regulating the rates of postage on newspapers, so far as the same relates to newspapers that are carried by mail to any office within the county where printed; believing that the finances of that Department of the Government would not experience any serious embarrassment, or inconvenience, if the law or so much of it as relates to such postage, were repealed: and believing that knowledge and more particularly that species of knowledge which relates to the affairs of Government, and is more generally diffused through the medium of the newspaper Press, should be presented at as cheap a rate as possible, and without any restraint on the part of Government; and believing that the rates of postage as they now exist operate to the great disadvantage of country printers; while they have the contrary effect upon city printers: for these reasons, and many others that might be urged, your petitioners would respectfully pray your Honorable body, ^(^to repeal so much of said law as to take the postage off newspapers carried by mail, to any office within the county in which they are published. And as in duty bound they will ever pray.^)^