To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in
Congress Assembled
The subscribers, Citizens of the County of Beaver 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30 miles of their Office of publication, be repealed, and that such other modifications of said act be made as shall more effectually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
| James Stewart | |
| Cyrus Clarke | Henry Dinsmore |
| R T Hunter | William Henry |
| Wm Stuart | John Clarke |
| James Havelin | Joseph McClelland |
| T. L. Henry | Arthur Rogers |
| John Ferguson | Robert Reed |
| J W [R?] | J. [?] |
| Wm Lane | |
| F C Guin | James Gaily |
| Joseph Miller | Joseph Nelson |
| Wm Alswarth | James Harvill |
| Daniel McLaughlin | E D Stott |
| Charles Oppe | John Bolmer Jr |
| James Shaffer | |
| Thomas Fergusen | Wm Caldwell |
| A Galy | John J Henry |
| Jacob Rudisle | S W Gaily |
| John Briton | Ambrose Nesbit |
| J. C. Christy | Robert Fullerton |
| Harvey Baldwin | Robert Tait |
| Eli Pitzer | |
| James Nisbet | Wm Moreland |
| James Hamilton | Hugh Martin |
| Tho Williams | Isaac Bruse |
| John K. Swisher | |
| I. W. Calvin | John McMinn |
| William Woods | Samuel Cover |
| Allen Nesbit | James Jackson. |
| T S Alswarth | John McCandless |
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John Bolmer |
| R P Guinn | |
| Wm Gilmore | Robert Cannon |
| James Dazell | John Duff |
| David Kennedy | |
| Wm Mars | Adam Crawford |
| Joseph H Hayes J | |
| Wm B Read | John Williams J |
| Robert Todd | Robt Hopper |
| John Lusk | Joseph Wilson |
| Joseph Reed | John [Poak?] |
| David Hayes | |
| Wm. G. Hudson | H J Smith |
| Ross A Tait | |
| Wm McGinnis | C M young |
| J JSeth Martin. | John. S. Officer |
| Robert Sherer | James Rogers |
| John Gilmore | M. Weyand |
| Leonard Umbarger | Wm Carson |
| Wm McClelland Jr | John White |
| John Cowden | Matthew Dinsmore |
| Wm F. Davidson | Andrew Patterson |
| Robert Guiley | John Lindsay |
| George Cress | Wm Chambers |
| Robert Woods | Samuel McFale |
| Arthur Gwin | Samuel Ritter |
| Alexr Steel | John Carson Jr |
| Wm Chambers jr | James Leslie Jr |
| James Johnston | Wm knox |
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| Jeramah Bannon | James [Poak?] |
| John Nesbit | |
| James A Alcorn | Robert Alcorn |
| John L Hays | James Wilson |
| Hugh Dalzell | Robert Patterson |
| Mathew Davidson | |
| Wm Robison Jr | William Nesbet |
| James McCreery | |
| John Carson | Samuel White |
| Olive Daff | Daniel A. Davidson |
| J C Meglathery | |
| John Douglass | David Hoge |
| James McClure | Jesse Goodrich |
| Robert McLaughlin | Clement Clark |
| Samuel Chambers | |
| James Hanna | Cyrus Marshall |
| Adam Leslie | Peter Bason |
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Penny.
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[Bram?]
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Petition of Cyrus Clarke & 136 other citizens of Beaver Co Pa praying for the Repeal of So much of the act of 3d march 1847, as requires postage to be paid on newspapers circulating within 30 miles
of their place of publication.
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January 12, 1848 Referred to the Committee ^on^ the Post office and Post Roads
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Post office & Post roads
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Mr Dickey
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,