To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in
Congress assembled:
We, the undersigned, citizens of Lowell, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, respectfully
ask the passage of a law establishing an uniform rate of letter postage, and requiring
the pre-payment thereof, at five
^two^ cents each for all letters not exceeding one ounce in weight. And, they further ask
the passage of a law establishing an uniform newspaper postage of one cent for each
paper; and requiring all transcient papers, (or papers not sent to regular subscribers from the office of publication,)
to be pre-paid. And they further ask the total abolition of the franking privilege.
| Horace C. Dean | |
| Shepard Watson | Royal Southwick |
| E. H. Spalding | Josiah Gates |
| Russel R Warren | |
| Samuel Brackett | W Hill |
| Leonard F Jewell. | O Sherman Jr |
| J C Colby | H A Baker |
| J. B. Melvin | C T, Parker |
| Joseph S Grush | Foster Nowell |
| Willard Hazen | G W, Fields |
| Sa[ba?]thiel Moore | Calvin Woodard |
| Franklin Cheney | Wm Dean |
| Thomas [?] | [?] |
| Horace B, Lock | Charles Sherman |
| Daniel M. Foss | B F Woodard |
| Levi Ferguson | C S, Martin |
| Wm A Johnson | T Haskel |
| Samuel Dame | E R Davis |
| David Lane | J Burgess |
| Joseph W Pratt | J Parmenter |
| H Anley | Weld Spalding |
| C Butrick | Lewis, D, Boise. |
| C N Stone | Joseph Gregory |
| A, [G?], Simpson | T W, Pressey |
| Alfred Ordway | James C Abbott |
| M, G. Haskell | [Isaac?] S. Morse |
| George Young | [Jos.?] Butterfield |
| Daniel Colby | S. A, Brown |
| Stephen Colby | Ithamar W. Beard |
| Chas Ellis | John Carlton |
| Samuel Paris | Moses G. Ho[w?] |
| Joel Smith | Edwin L Shed |
| W. P. Brazer | Farnum Merrill |
| Jefferson Bancroft | |
| E. A. [Alyn?] | [H?]. [H?]. Fuller |
| Charles Pollock | James Dinsmoor. |
| Robins Dinsmore | |
| Hugh McEvoy | Jona Ladd |
| Chas H, Heywood | Walter Kidder |
| [?] C Gove Gove | A E. Reed |
| Joseph Mayer | |
| Wm [?] Hale | Joseph Thurston |
| George K. Paul | Francis Bush |
| Luke Doe | J. [Hoyt?] |
| Frank Leathe | |
| Mark H Doe | Freland Flanders |
| Charles E Brazen | Cyrus S. Mann |
| M. H Cochran | John Anderson |
| J F. Huntington | E. C. McFarland |
| B, V, Coburn | Amos Rugg. |
| R, W, Morse | Albert Allen |
| Jos M, Brainerd | Warren Damon |
| James C. Ayer. | John M Brown |
| P. T. Griffith | T. H. Sweitser |
| Joseph H Stevens | G. F von [Gr?]achenfeldt. |
| C. P. S. Betts | J. B. Varnum. |
| J. F. Merriam | P. Whiting |
| Wm Waugh | William J Davis |
| Chas T. Hopkins | Danl Cushing |
| T. R. D. Stuart | M. Richards Steele. |
| Joseph Bush | Simeon Folsom |
| Luke McFarlin | Horace T Robbins |
| Geo. A. Butterfield | C. E. Stanley. |
| John B Stevens | G, F, Woods |
| Andrew G South[weryd?] | S. A Simpson |
| J, B, Straws. | James Lawton |
| Hannibal Powers | Horace [Doak?] |
| Geo W Stanley | Geo, G. Knapp |
| D S G[norer?] | L, W, Jaquith |
| David Simpson | A A Demond |
| Wm Gilmore | Daniel Chapman |
| Stephen C Cutler | A. W. Doe |
| Wm C. Barnes | Jonathan Morse. |
| [A W?] [W?] | [Joseph S. Brown?] |
| Wm E Emery | James A Bassett |
| W, H. Waldron | Jas S. Welch |
| J. W. Davis | S McCanathan |
| Harrison Haley. | A, P, Bonney |
| A, Hopkinson | Jas M. Peabody |
| [?]. C, Wright | David, R, Hale. |
| Lyman [Fobry?] | Augustus C French |
| Oliver A Charters | W Kern |
| C, C, Knowles | Georg Adams |
| A, Critchett | Geo. Gardner |
| Otis L Fern | John Wilson jr |
| Eben P[en?]ham | L. P. Crown |
| John Penham | Joseph [V?] Shaw |
| Amos Sanborn | John W Adams |
| Abrm Mead | David Jones |
| A. W. Moulton | Philip Hardy |
| [?] | Asa Hildreth |
| [ ?]Grant. | |
| J. Folsom | L, W, Daniels |
| A E Hayward | Saml Stone |
| S. Tatmun | John, L. Folsom |
| Edward Stone | B F Holden |
| David Hill | Roland Lyman |
| George W Norris | [Priam?] Lyon |
| Oliver Ward | L. D. Lyon |
| S R. Colvin | S D Weeks |
| N M Wright | Joseph Carpenter |
| Joseph M Crosby | Wm Nichols |
| Denis Adams | Wm Wade |
| C M Wiggins | John Swett |
| H. A. Lard | J. B. Fielding |
| [Geor?] E [Fl?]ood | Ira McIntier |
| Oliver S Cale[b?] | W. A Blaisdell |
| Nathl W Morrill | Henry L Willi[ams?] |
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Massachusetts
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Petition of Horace C. Dean & 207 others citizens of Lowell in the State of Mass. praying
for a reduction & uniform rate of postage on letters & news-papers, and the total
abolition of the of the franking privilege
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March 6, 1848 Referred to the Committee on the Post office and Post Roads
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Ref. Comee on Post Office and Post Roads.
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A. Abbott
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,