To the Congress of the United States, in Senate and House of Representatives assembled.
The undersigned citizens of the County of Erie in the State of New-York, respectfully
request your Honourable body, to pass a law, repealing the law of the last session of Congress, respecting postage on newspapers. Our desire
is, that newspapers may go free in the mails in the county where they are published,
and also to any place out of the county where they are published, if within thirty
miles of the place of publication. And your petitioners &c.
| Morris Fosdick. | Levi Bullis |
| Seth W. Godard | Damon Dodge |
| William Barckley | George. Williams |
| James. A. Morrow | P. L. Tyler |
| Bela Graves | Alonzo [Tanner?] |
| Erasmus Briggs | Levi Wells |
| Byron Cochran | Alva Dutton |
| Richard Shepard | G W Miller |
| Wells Brooks | Wm F. Fessenden |
| Milo M Baker | S. James |
| Chs C. Severance | |
| D. T. Hatch | N. A. [G?] |
| Daniel E Smith | Alonzo C Ashmun |
| Zimri Ingalls | |
| Thomas J. Millington | Gorham Newcomb |
| Benjamin Wheeler Jr | Joel Cobleigh |
| Charles. C. Bigelow | Daniel Pearson |
| Mathew Brewer | Asa Welles |
| Luther. P. Cox | E N Brooks |
| Healy Freeman | William Van Pelt |
| Stephen H McGuin | |
| J H Jewell | Cyrus C Rhodes |
| E May | O. Perkins |
| Eliakim B Shutts | Richmond Fuller |
| Jacob White | G. Shepard |
| T. G. Eaton | C. C. Lake |
| James McClure | C. Jewett |
| R. Wadsworth | Saml R Fox |
| L. S. Bailey | R. C. Eaton |
| I. G. Blake | Ambrose Johnson |
| W. H. Spencer | E. C Pool |
| Otis Butterworth | J C Bloomfield |
| C [Spenen?] | Jas N. Richmond |
| Cyrus Griswold | J F Crandall |
| C. C. McClure | Wm A Boull |
| J. W. Reed | A Melwen |
| J. W. Earle | Gardner Brand |
| John Woodward | James Hinman |
| Abner Pettit | George Brand |
| Charles Botsford | |
| Geo. C Townsend | H. T. Wadsworth |
| Gardner Stanbro | |
| Russel Stanbro | C. A. Brand |
| William C. Nash | P. B. Herington |
| William Weber | E. P. Hatch |
| William. H. Agard | Henry Pease |
| George E. Crandall | J. H. Pringle |
| C. Green | Leland Fisk |
| Sidney Sibley | Wm Hewitt |
| C Jones | A. H. Wing |
| N Shaw | G. E Graves |
| Winsor King | Sanford H Eddy |
| Constant Graves | A. W. Ensign |
| John J. McNair | David Baker |
| John. F. Sibley | Noah Rockwell |
| Albert Needham | Philitus Allen |
| Pliny Smith | Wm Watkins |
| William L Onderkirk | John C Cranston |
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New York.
Petition of Morris Fosdick & others of the County of Erie N.Y. praying for a repeal of so much of the law of last session as imposes a postage on Newspapers sent to places in the same Co where they are printed or other places within 30 miles of the place of publicatn
Petition of Morris Fosdick & others of the County of Erie N.Y. praying for a repeal of so much of the law of last session as imposes a postage on Newspapers sent to places in the same Co where they are printed or other places within 30 miles of the place of publicatn
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January 17, 1848 Referred to the committee on the Post office & Post Roads
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A K Hall
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Com on P. O. & P. R.
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,