The Subscribers, citizens of the county of Adams, State of Pennsylvania, respectfully pray your honorable bodies, that the provisions in the Act of Congress of March 3^d 1847, requiring postage to be paid on all newspapers circulating in the mail within 30 miles of the office of publication; and also that part of the Same Act, requiring the pre-payment of 3 cents postage on each transient newspaper sent in the mail, be repealed, and that such of the modifications of said act be made as shall more effectually provide for a Uniform system of cheap postage on letters, &c.