To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representative[s?] of the United States in Congress assembled:
The subscribers, citizens of the County of Morgan, State of Ohio, respectfully ask
your honorable bodies that the provisions in the act of Congress of March 3, 1847,
requiring postage to be paid on all newspapers circulating in the mail within 30 miles
of the office of publication, be reapealed, and that such other modifications of said act be made as shall more effectually
provide for a uniform system of cheap postage on letters, &c.
| James McLaughlin | William Sherwood |
| A. Simpson | Joel Robb |
| A McClelland | Henry R Pinkerton |
| Jas Harkless | Melvin Clarke |
| William Ackin | Robert Henery |
| John Anderson | Joseph Strahl |
| R, Porter Jr | David Holbrook |
| John, Kirby | William Marquis |
| Henry Kirby | Jacob [O?] Shriver |
| Hayes Pyle | R. W. P. Muse |
| Jas Moon | John Sevall |
| H C Grimmel | S. S. Chinn |
| James Welch | David Blanks |
| Peter Kidd | Thos Byers |
| Henry Filkil | Allen Daniels |
| George Herron | D. Devol |
| Simpkin [H?] Brown | S A. Barker |
| Abraham Barnes | John V Johnson |
| Michael Adcock | S. H. Fouts |
| Samuel Adams | Joseph Woodward |
| Otho French | John, Brelsford |
| Samuel E McCormick | Joseph Kirk |
| Henry Linkins | |
| D, B, Linn. | |
| J, H, Roland | 49 names |
| Jas K. Jones | |
| John, D, Sopher |
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Petition of James McLaughlin and 48 others citizens of Morgan Co O. praying a repeal of so much of the act of Congress of 3rd March 1847, as subjects to the payment of postage News papers circulating ^through the mail^ within 30 miles of the office of publication, and a more effective system of cheap
postage.
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February 18, 1848 Referred
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Refer to the Committee on post offices and post roads
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N. Evans of Ohio
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Handwritten 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,