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To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled:
We, the undersigned, citizens of the county of Luzerne , and State of Pennsylvania, deeming the legitimate object of the Post Office Department to be the dissemination of knowledge among the people, and feeling a deep interest in the diffusion of its benefits, respectfully pray your honorable bodies, that the existing laws of Congress, regulating the rates of postage, &c., be so altered and amended as to allow newspapers to be transmitted through the mail free of postage in the counties in which they are printed, and any distance within 30 miles from the office of publication; also, that the provision of the act of Congress, passed March 3d, 1847, authorizing a charge of three cents postage on all papers not sent by the publisher, be repealed, as imposing a tax which your petitions deem at variance with the principles of justice and the requirements of the Post Office Department. We also pray your honorable bodies so to change the post office laws as to allow the free transmission of all periodicals and magazines, sent to editors in “exchange,” upon which postage is now charged. For these, and such other alterations in the several acts of Congress, as your wisdom may suggest, which may tend to increase [t]he usefulness of the Post Office Department, we will, as in duty bound, ever pray, &c.
Geo. H. Wells Henry Overton
Chas H. Hay Edward Spencer
Hugh Fell George Eicke
John Jackson
G. B. Nicholson E. H. Ellis
Robert Eaton
W. J. Woodward J. R. Baldwin
A H Reynolds John Johnston
Chas Bennet T Philip [Mixell?]
David Gordon
John Myers Martin Long
M. L. Blackman
Samuel Hoyt Ira Bronson
Harris Jenkins L [Halles?]
Thomas Hoover Charles Berry
N G Horne S. D. Lewis
John [?] Jr Ziba Bennett
Jno. B. Mills Charles Tracy
Jesse Vansteenburgh Robr Porter
Wm [S.?] Ewing L. [Gary?]
James Holgate N. Marshall
Robert [N?] Smith Wm Tompkins
Martin F Root V. L. Maxwell
George Barnes T. B. Worthington
Wm [Carey?] Edmund J. [Carr?]
Leml Barber J B Williams
S W Barton J Renhard
Theodore Van Rouk
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Pennsylvania
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Petition of Citizens of Luzerne County Penna asking that the existing laws may be so altered as to allow newspapers to be transmitted through the mail free of postage in the Counties in which they are printed, and any distance within 30 ^miles^ from the office of publication. Also that the provision of Act of Congress passed 3 March 1847 authorising a charge of 3 cents postage on all papers not sent by the publisher, may be repealed.
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February 4, 1848 Referred to the Committee on Post office & Post Roads
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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,