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To The Honorable Senate And the house of representatives of the united states in Congress
assembled;
The Subscribers, Cittizens of the County of Trumbull State of Ohio Respectfuly pray
your honorable Bodies that the provisions of the Act of Congress of March 3rd 1847 requiring postage to be paid on all Newspapers Circulating in the mail within
30 miles of the office of publication Be Repailed And that Such other modifications
of said Act be made as shall more effectually provide for A uniform System of Cheap
postage on letters
| Names | Names |
| Thomas Gilmor | D B Sunbury |
| Nathan Webb | John Elder |
| Wm Burns | A Burlisan |
| Elias Grover | Lester Hine |
| Isaac Griggs | John Dunbar |
| Barzilla Hillyer | George Hill |
| Erastus Hillyer | Stephen Smith Jnr |
| Orrin Hill | Salmon Burnell |
| J. C. Willmer | Andrew Jackson |
| Wm Curley | Hiram Morey |
| Almon D Webb | Joseph Butrick |
| Jacob Fortney | Andrew Watts |
| James Lewis | James York |
| Adam Fortney | [J?] Winthrop Pelton |
| M. C. Bradlee | Fayette Dunbar |
| Otis R Coburn | George W Root |
| John L Webb | Amos Shipman |
| Earl Daniels | George Buell |
| Truman Morey | Elisha Miner |
| Thomas Tudhope | Sherman Tyrnell |
| Isaiah Bartlett | George Tyler |
| J. W. Dyke | Oree Tyler |
| Hermon Johnston. | Hirum Hime |
| William Boor. | Lucius Bartlett |
| Leicester Day | J James Burlison |
| Robert Wilson | Conwall Dickinson |
| Seth Sloan | Richard Hunt |
| James [Ebben?] | Albert Gridley |
| Ebenezer N Lowrey | Lewis Clarke |
| Addison J. McKay | Edmund. P. Coe |
| J D. Bridges. | M S Beach |
| Daniel Ford | Wm H Kosey |
| Henry K Hulse | Gideon Parker |
| Joseph Young | L. Cannon |
| Lester Button | |
| Isaac Mowrey | |
| Richard S King | |
| Joel Truesdell | |
| John [Card?] | |
| J. J. Barnes | |
| R. P. Williams | |
| Jahiel Meacham | |
| Benjamin E Taft | |
| F. D. Shipman | |
| Alexander Christie | |
| Geo. A. Griswold | |
| Moses H Jonas | |
| J Thomson |
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Petition of Citizens of Trumbull County, for repeal of Act of Congress imposing postage on newspapers with 30 miles of the Offices of publication.
Petition of Citizens of Trumbull County, for repeal of Act of Congress imposing postage on newspapers with 30 miles of the Offices of publication.
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March 14, 1848 Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads
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Crowell
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The petition of Thomas Gilmore, Nathan Webb, and others, citizens of Trumbull Co,
Ohio, for the repeal of so much of the Act of Congress of March 3d 1847 as requires postage to be paid on news papers circulating within thirty miles
of the office of publication and for such other modifications of said Act as shall
more effectually provide for a Uniform system of cheap postage on letters.
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Presented by J. Crowell
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Referred to the Committee on Post offices and Post Roads
Autograph 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,