The subscribers, citizens of the county of Jefferson, State of Ohio, respectfully pray your honorable bodies that the provissions in the act of March 3^d 1847, requiring ^postage to be paid on^ all newspapers circulating in the mail within thirty miles of the office of publication, and “taxing three cents on trancient papers“ be repealed, and that such other modifications of said act as shall more effectually provide for a uniform system of Cheap postage on letters, &c.