To the Congress of the United States:
The undersigned citizens of the County of Orleans would 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 therefore we most earnestly ask
and expect that you will grant these our most reasonable requests.
Dated Kendall Dec 1st 1847| Robert Clark | S. L. Jeuett | |
| Artemas Densmore | James H Spicer | |
| William Griswold | William B Austin | |
| Josephus Morgan | Wm W Peet | |
| J A Ream | A. W. Leach | |
| William L. Clark | Cicero Cary | |
| David Jones | Edwin Hall | [?] |
| Ethan Graham | Saml Mead | |
| S. V. [K?]. Requa | ||
| G Requa | Oscar Sawyer | |
| Isaac O Nulls[?] | S P Weeks | |
| Alexis Crane | Horace Sawyer | |
| E J Crane | Geo S Pur[?] | |
| Levi Cook | ||
| Ha[?]en Elmore | ||
| Robert Montoney | ||
| Wm. S. Jewett | ||
| A. DeGroff | ||
| C Charles G Root | ||
| A. M. Wood | Leonard Butts | |
| J B Roberts | Edwin Bliss | |
| M J Robler | Henry Higgins | |
| Chas [?] Brown | ||
| Oran J Smith | T. Bliss | |
| Asa Baker | Coffin Avery | |
| P. A. Bassett | C. H Avery | |
| George Spencer | B Thomas | |
| Levi Hurd | Charles Cucick | |
| W E Avery | Smith Brannen | |
| W O Will[?] | Wm K. Townsend | |
| D Demoy | John Townsend | |
| Geo Brown | Wesley Clough | |
| Osod McWilliams | Charles Skutt | |
| Charles [?]os[?]e[?] | [?] Pool | |
| William Robertson | Henry Harwick | |
| A. J. Kundall | L L Forbes | |
| Benjamin More | James. C. Allis | |
| John E Jewett | Warliam Hudge | |
| N J Asslin | Peter Montony | |
| Wm. E. Prosser | Henry Thacher | |
| C Harwick | Rasmus Dahl | |
| George Hall | ||
| Daniel C Thomas | Boyd Hopkins | |
| John Dean | Platt M Redfield | |
| Moses Collins | S. A Thomas | |
| Numon Shiver | James Austin | |
| Spencer H Spears | ||
| Noble Averill | Daniel McConnele | |
| Nathaniel Palmer | N B Barker | |
| Ruele Robler | A. Whitney | |
| John Hull | J. W. Barker | |
| Solomon Hart | Moses Hart | |
| L. Collins | P Leonard Jr | |
| Elijah Weed | Alonzo Knight | |
| A Collins | N M Requa |
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Petition from citizens of Kendall ^orleans county^ N. York praying to be relieved from the tax on news-papers, and for the abolition
of the franking privilege &c
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January 17. 1848 Referred to the committee on the Post office & Post Roads
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Committee on Post Office & P. Roads
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Presented by Mr. Hunt
N.Y.
N.Y.
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