To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled
The undersigned respectfully request that you will reduce letter postage throughout
the nation to two Cents and that of newspapers in due proportion and abolish the franking
privilege
| Geo Read. | Harrison C Smith |
| Calvin B Rogers | Albert L Pratt |
| Geo Spencer | Wm D Worthington |
| John C. Rogers | E. C. Webster |
| Julius P Post | H G Stevens |
| Colman S. Hubbard | M E Bailey |
| Scolley Snow | Charles B Lyon |
| William Batsford | Geo Bradley |
| Levi B. Southworth | C H Williams |
| C W Shipman | F C Reman |
| Julius W Rogers | H. G. Loomis |
| David Watson | Wm B Stevens |
| Stephen Jennings | H Shailer |
| H H Harris | T B Flatham |
| Saml Shailer | Appleton Stevens |
| D O. Emmons | David Read |
| Simon W Shailer | Wells Smith |
| O H Kingsley | Charles Reed |
| George N Smith | Eliphalet L Brockway |
| H B Kelsey | |
| Henry. L. Shaler. | Wm Palmer |
| Fisk Shailer | Ezra Kingsley |
| Chas [Buncan?] | George E [Bailey?] |
| Hanson Arnold | Joseph C Fargo Jr |
| Noah Shipman | |
| John E Watrous | Stephen P. Wright |
| Wells B Smith | O. Dickinson |
| N B Kelsey | J L. Parker |
| John S Southworth | Ira S Waters |
| Henry Wooster | |
| Geo. A. Read | Horace [?] |
| John H Bushnell | E S Williams |
| Charles W Post | Timothy Peckham |
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Geo. Rand & als
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Petition of Geo Read & others of Deep River ^Con^ Connecticut for an alteration of Postage
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January 17, 1848 Referred to Committee on the Post Office & Post Roads
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S. D Hubbard
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Committee on Post Offices & Roads
Autograph 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,