To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress Assembled:
The undersigned Citizens of the County of Tompkins and State of New York. respectfully
petition Congress to pass a law to establish a uniform rate of Postage, not to exceed
one cent on News papers. and two cents on each Pre Paid Letter of half an ounce, for
all distances. and as in duty bound will ever pray.
| Abel Storms | |
| Asa B Clark. | Andrew Myers |
| D. Vanderwerken | Joseph Esty. |
| Henry Wilgus | J. L. [Iredell?] |
| C A Smith | W T Hopkins |
| T. S. Dunnings | |
| Geo. G. Freer. | Ira Newell |
| John. M. Dunning | Isaac Bishop |
| Warren Ackley | Thaddeus [Seely?] |
| Daniel [Place?] | Isaac Earl |
| George Whiton | Charles Hayt |
| Robert. Forsyth | Henry Ackley |
| Elias Freeman | Joel Rundle |
| Isaac, M, Beers | William Phillips |
| Augustus [Sherrill?] | Lyttleton H Clark |
| W. P. Luce | A. W. Knapp |
| Eli Beers | Julius Bierce |
| I. [Holm?]. | Walker Bennett |
| J. E. Hawley. | H F Randolph |
| Amos Northrop | |
| H. Hungerford | E. B. Hill |
| W. G. Herrick | W. H. Hall |
| S. S. Cutter | Wm Baldwin |
| Robt Renney | H A [Dove?] |
| Wm Totten | Wm L Hind |
| Andrew [Hort?], | Jonah Hart |
| E. G. Early | H Lord |
| John [p?] | David Kellogg |
| Jared Treman | John [Sardls?] |
| John L Whiton | Benjamin Joy |
| Dexter Bond | |
| L. S. Huestis | J B Williams |
| F Dutcher | J S Lee |
| Daniel Krum | Tho [De Coudres?] |
| Daniel Bates | |
| Arnold McIntire | E. Cornell |
| Samuel M Barker | Joseph Burrett |
| William H Main | Benjm Allen |
| Selden L Field | P. I. [Partenheimer?] |
| A. S. Johnson | |
| Geo. McCormick | W. H. Sackett |
| A. [Lebingler?] | F Deming |
| S. B. Beers | G. Morehouse |
| W. J. Tozer | Thos. E. Gridley |
| Jonah Sicpaugh | Sherman Miller |
| Jonah Sincapaugh | William Wembley |
| Wm Hand | Jefferson. O. McQuoid |
| E F Farrow | Almon Wakeman |
| Don Alonzo. Williams | Benjamin Ames |
| B. Gould | A J Tompkins |
| Geo Cookingham | L Atwater |
| G W Worth | Jacob Terry |
| Aaron McIntire | [Hedris?] Atwater |
| George Miller | David P Edsall |
| John Harvey | B. W Squires |
| [Joh?] [M?] Jones | A D Moot |
| Robert Wilson | [Y?] H [Waldorff?] |
| John Rumsy | W Johnson |
| W. W. Ballard | M. Finch |
| E Warren | William Dudley |
| Hawley Murray | |
| A B Kingsley | Amasa Dana |
| Horatio Hodson | James Ridgway |
| Samuel Harris | Robert Wilson |
| Samuel Hart | |
| Saml. Low | M. C. Riggs |
| James [A?] | |
| Lewis Price | Lewis A [Benntt?] |
| John C [Kell?] | Henry L Wilgus |
| John Ogden | Francis A. [Pells?] |
| Thomas H. Hind | C D Culver |
| W T Mattison | Geo H Collins |
| T. D Wilcoe | Amos Ogden |
| H Van Houten | Francis Woolley |
| Wm Post | |
| Thos L. Post | Samuel Knapp |
| Leonard Treman | John Bouton |
| O. B. Curran | T. W. Seely. |
| H. B. Jones | Jonathan Conger |
| S. B. Hand | S. D. Carr |
| E Rathbone | J. Bruyn |
| Gilbert Smith | L Centworth |
| D. L. Dubois | Uri Clark |
| Joseph Judson | F [Ba?] |
| Pendon Taber | John Southworth |
| G. C. [M?] | H B Palmer |
| Henry Hoffman | |
| S T. Hayt | Leonard William |
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Petition of Citizens of Tompkins County NY. for a reduction ^of postage ^to^ not exceeding^ 2 Two cents on letters sent by mail
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April 27, 1848, refered to Committee on the Post office and post roads.
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W T Lawrence
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,