. . .House of Representatives of the United [States Congr]ess:
[The undersig]ned, citizens of Crawford [County,] Ohio, feeling agrieved by the repeal of so much of an act approved March 3d, 1845, as allows publishers of Newspapers to send through the mail Newspapers of no greater size than nineteen hundred square inches; THIRTY MILES FREE OF POSTAGE, respectfully pray your honorable body to repeal so much of an act approved March 3d, 1847, as repeals so much of the 2d section of an act, entitled an act, “To reduce the rates of postage, to limit the use and correct the abuse of the franking privilege, and for the prevention of frauds on the revenue of the Post Office Department,” as reads as follows: “That all newspapers of no greater size or superfices than nineteen hundred square inches, may be transmitted through the mail by the editor or publisher thereof, to all subscribers or other persons within THIRTY MILES of the city, town, or other place in which the paper is or may be printed, free of any charge for postage whatever.”
NAMES. NAMES.
James H. Hutchison O. Williams
L. W. Hall
David Niebals
Geo. Beckley
Thos F Johnston
J. E. Jewett
Jacob Poundstone
Samuel Myers
Zalmon Rowse
Jacob Augustein
Saml Andrew
Sebastian Fishmann
Martin Bacon

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Petitions from citizens of Crawford Co Ohio Praying Congress to Repeal so much of the Act of Congress as of 1847 as repeals that part of the act of March 3d 1845 which allows newspapers to be sent through the mail free of Postage
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^January 6, 1848.^
Refered to the Committee on the Post Office & Post Roads
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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,