PETITION TO CONGRESS FOR CHEAP POSTAGE.
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled:The undersigned, Citizens of ^Andover^ Massachusetts, respectfully petition Congress to pass a Law to establish A UNIFORM
RATE OF Postage, not to exceed ONE CENT ON Newspapers, and TWO CENTS on each PRE-PAID Letter of half an ounce, for ALL DISTANCES.
And as in duty bound will ever pray.
| NAMES. | RESIDENCE. | NAMES. | RESIDENCE. |
| Increase S Hill | B. Vale, Andover. | ||
| Benja B Neal | Thomas. Welch | David Butler | |
| Enoch Lewis | Warren Moulton | Johnson D. Atkinson | |
| Danl W Caldwell | Wm. F. Downes | Charles. Place | |
| Jos. G. Dorr | wm" f." | Joseph A. Bartlett | |
| John Gault | George. H. Smith | Robert Drew | |
| David Moorell | J. L. Tuttle. | E. B. Calhoun | |
| Frank B. Dorr. | Austin N. Parkhurst | Franklin Nickerson | |
| Samuel B Harrington | Wm. A Tuttle | John. C Farrand | |
| I. H Parnell | David C Bicknell | F. McShea | |
| Caleb F Winchester | John Allen | Henry Deadman | |
| William H. Booth | Thomas Whelen | Bela. N. Bartlett | |
| Walter Dole | Charles. C. Whittemore | M. M. Graves | |
| Marcellus W. Rogers | Enoch Kemp | S H Morse | |
| Harris Morse | Geo A. Hungtington | Chas Y. Chase | |
| Emory Farnsworth | Geo W Emerson | J. W. Greenleaf | |
| J. L. Campbell | James H. Flagg. | A. Nutter | |
| John Frye | Francis A Gardner | John S. Rand | |
| Nathan P Coffin | Daniel Halladay | Albert Downs | |
| David Wetherill | William Wheatland. | Alonzo J. Downing. | |
| Norman C Hanson | Isaac A Johnson | Isaac Abbott | |
| Edwin B Sawyer | John S Nut | L. C. Brastow. | |
| David Dresser | Alfred Holt | Edward Gustine | |
| Moses Paige | Charles T. Hall | William Chilton | |
| Henry Cowdin | A. McColby | William Stimpson | |
| Wm Grant | H. Holt. | Thomas H [Starr?] | |
| Lewis Osborn | Ezra Huntington | Wm J. Towne | |
| J. E. Folsom | Franklin Hamilton | John Kearney | |
| M H Fisher | William. S. Horton | P. Donovan | |
| Daniel Webster | Hosea Davis | William Osmond | |
| Morris Moor | Henry Frost | Charles B Shaw | |
| James Platt | James B Cushing. | Hiram C Tuttle | |
| Joseph A. Hall | Thomas P Howard | Chas Gibbs | |
| Andrew Scott | Andrew. B. Thompson | ||
| Thomas B Poor | Jacob Dascomb | ||
| William Atkinson | C. W. Barker | ||
| Francis Clarke | Charles. C. McCloud | ||
| Gilman Davis | |||
| James Scott | |||
| John Marland | |||
| Jno Howe, Jr | |||
| A. H. Brown | |||
| J. H. Thornton |
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Massachusetts
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Petition of Increase S Hill & 140 others citizens of Andover, Mass, for an uniform
rate of cheap postage
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April 18, 1848 Referred to the Committee on the Post Office & Post Roads
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Com. Post Offices & P Roads by
D. P. King
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,