To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States:
We, the Petitioners, have seen with much satisfaction the Report of the Committee of
the House for the reduction of Postage, viz: making Newspapers of particular size
free 30 miles, and a uniform rate for Letters at five cents—believing that the whole
People of the United States demand this reform. We cannot but express our full conviction
of this just measure, and earnestly urge upon Congress, now in session, to accomplish
its passage before the adjournment.
Bath, Steuben Co. N.Y. May, 1848.| T. Whiting | |
| Gen N V Knickerbacker | Benj. Waggoner |
| S. C. Whiting | A. Loueks |
| D, A, Fuller | |
| John Emerson | R. S. Underhill |
| John Dudley | Simon Bovier |
| Hiram Potter | Jas R. Dudley |
| Henry Pier | C H, Brother |
| John Palmer | James Fosset |
| Jno. C. Morse | Noah Ellis |
| george [Pangeuny?] | |
| Norman Davies | R Leach |
| J H Thompson | G, C, Webster |
| H, W, Penne | Seely Brownell |
| [N?]. G. Halsey | |
| F S Heath | T. Hess |
| H. Church | Andrew Hill |
| Nathaniel Perkins | Wm. Gamble |
| Conrad Shults | |
| John Rose | R. B. Van Valkenburgh |
| S. H. Crane | R Brown |
| William G Rose | J. W Beath |
| [Geo. S?] Ellas | A S Howell |
| Amos. B. C. Dickinson. | J. V. N. DeWitt |
| H G Donah | Jacob Billington |
| George S [Harding?] | J. T. Shaw |
| J C[?] | A Larrowy |
| O Stewart | |
| G. Bundy | |
| A, C. Yost | Henry Goff |
| I. L. Babcock | |
| D. Woods | |
| L D Metcalf | H T. Fife |
| J, Goff | |
| G [Halleck?] | |
| C. S. Knight | N. H. Hopkins |
| D W Lyon | Ansell Parker |
| P, G, Wheeler | |
| A, Hess. | H H Johnson |
| E R Bidwell | M C Warren |
| A. Boyd Jr | L, R, Libbey |
| Hinsley E [Gross?] | Hiram Small |
| Wm Sedgwick | W. S. miller |
| B. P. Slater | [L?], D, Cobb |
| C, E, Heilsy | Wm H. Read |
| Henry C[ulver?] | |
| George W [?] | |
| Wm [L?]. Hubbell | G C Rellis |
| Edward Lindsey | |
| Joseph D [Butler?] | William S Green |
| Wm [J?]. Phelps | D. C. Howell |
| Peter, R, House | L. Robie |
| John C Goo[?] ^86^ | A Hall |
| W Secor | Geo. R. Millard |
| Thomas Miller jr | John Stout |
| W, S. Durham | E. Howell Jr |
| James F. Howell | |
| A. C. Sherwood | John Whiting |
| Norman Hopkins | John A. Nicholds |
| Charles E, French | |
| A L. Underhill | T, A. Wilcox |
| [Eli?] Robinson | |
| W E Brown | |
| G T, Canford | [Mark?] [Taylor?] |
| H Snyder | [Ea?] Fisk |
| J S Blanck | John Q Dudley |
| L Biles | |
| J. B, [Flaming?] | William Brooks |
| J. Shannon | J. W. Metcalf |
| C Schenck | P, [Stuart?] |
| Wm E. Bonham | R [?] |
| Samuel Mosier | [?] |
| A B Beckwith | D [W Wheeler?] |
| Ginla McPawling | [A?]lexander Addams |
| T J French | Warren Gleason |
| Reuben Robie | James Lyon |
| A. D. Read | |
| J. H. Foss | B. C. Ward |
| Perry Topping | |
| J M Chamberlain | C. W. Campbell |
| J, [Darwin?] Dorr | L H Read |
| H H Hull | J R Barrett |
| Jas, M, Willow | Daniel Deg[?] |
| R C Green | [Vestus?] Chapin |
| Asa Blood^148^ | Ira Robinson^X^ |
| Clark Potter | Simeon, Vanwinkle. |
| Merlin Graham | Watermon Jenks |
| [W?] S Mulhollon | |
| John Abel | [H?]. P. Ferris |
| G, Schanck | [M Y?] Hubbard |
| H, D, Smead | E. M. Smead |
| R, I, Milligan | A. S. Rarney |
| R Campbell Jr | Jno R Gansevoort |
| Caleb R. Disbrow | James Webster |
| David Lane | Russel Taylor |
| S White | [F?]. C [Caruthers?] |
| Oliver Monell | F Cooper |
| Nathan [Barney?] | Ira Brown |
| George H [hults?] | [F. M. McCay?]. |
| A DeWolf | |
| J A Reynolds | S. R. [?] |
| L W Botsford | P. S. Perine |
| John Sergent | M Brownell |
| Miles [Terril?] | John Brambel |
| John Caruthers | Daniel Goodsell |
| Charles [Terril?] | A H [Silsbe?] |
| Andrew Smith ^[?]^ | C B Torrence |
| D L. Bissell | Anson Frisbee |
| Joseph [H?] Davis | Abel White |
| [?] | |
| John B. Pawling | Jno D Higgins |
| Henry Cotes | |
| H Townsend | John W. Fowler. |
| [J?] Daniel Baileau | W. W. McCay. |
| John Lanning | Samuel Hicock jr^X^ |
| James Read | G. H Knight |
| Peter Halsey | Joseph Foss |
| Jas Hogeland^208^ | James Manley |
| R M Lyon | |
| Wm Tyler | E [F?] Cook |
| Harris Abbe | [Isaac?] Collyer |
| Larry Grogan | Gilbert B. Ferris |
| John Mallett | Wm T Chase |
| Moses Mowers | Stephen [Collins?] |
| P A Mills | Richard [Collins?] |
| W, M, Lyon | Daniel C[?] |
| Wm Aber | |
| E L Platt | Wm Coss |
| John Edger | |
| A. [Busbee?] | [Lera?] Bradley |
| silvester Smith | Horace Haydon |
| E W [Cotta?] | William Van[?]mbegh |
| Phineas Warren | Wm Hamilton |
| Ancel Hays | Orren Smith |
| Brokenberry Watkins | Peter F Osborn |
| J H Sharp | Samuel [R Wilber?] |
| D J Sunderline | Hiram [Rusk?] |
| Cyrus Lee | Edwin Smith |
| J. Lanowe | Elam [Frink?] |
| Elijah Hanks | |
| J. Van Valkenburgh | Robt F. McCay. |
| S. S. [Rogers?] | |
| Samuel Benjamin 3d | Epaphras Bull |
| Ira [P?] Edwards | F, B, Miller |
| [P?], C, Wheeler,^262^ | D Williams |
| N, W, Green | E [?] |
| James S Brown | Lewis Smith^X^ |
| Morgan Holmes | W Wornbough Jr |
| Joseph Kushner | M. Sexton |
| Albert, [Hall?] | S. Hadley |
| W, H, Sansom | Wm Faulkner |
| Joseph Cross | Benj Wedge |
| Burr Gregory | John Haley |
| Daniel Lord | Daniel [Fuel?] |
| Samuel Cornell | James Cavenough |
| Stephen. A. Wood | Anthony Finagan |
| H. M. Miller | Ira Green |
| L M. Miller | Wm Edwards |
| [Otis?] Maxwell | O. I Farnum |
| Orlando Haley | P Mowers |
| James Parks Jr | Addison Niles |
| John Heron | Henry Vanamburgh |
| John Fosett | Philip [Stump?] |
| Ephraim S [Fletcher?] | Eli Bidwell Jr |
| M. Brown | Jeremiah Black |
| Harry Smith | D [oldreily?] |
| Silvester W Drake | Peter Skinkle |
| Samuel French. | William Skinkle |
| Edward Oneil | John Skinkle |
| James Smith | L. D, Hodgman |
| Joseph Wheeler | T K [Mowers?] |
| John Nicholds | Peter Simerman |
| Harvy P Lucas | Zenas Taylor |
| Henry [?] | James P Hand |
| Charles Stebbins | James Lindsay |
| O. F. Marshal | Benjamin [Nebirt?] |
| William Guernsey | Henry. C. May |
| Thomas Davison | Russel Bunnell |
| Jerome Smallidge | W Edwin Bidwell |
| Edward B Thompson | Norman Benton |
| Geo T Spencer | A. G. Chatfield |
| H. H. Cook | Merlin [?] |
| A Oliver | W Baily |
| Chas Blood | Hon A. Welles |
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| Dudley M Chase | P S Lawrence |
| T, W, Whiting | H Brundage |
| Endress Faulkner, | S van pelt^X^ |
| S W Alden^345^ | H, L, Comstock |
| Rev. F. S. Gaylord | Adam Haverling |
| A J Smith | Geo. Edwards |
| Joseph Carter | D M Coss |
| Charles Purdy | John [Tole?] |
| William Clisdell | John Mcpherson |
| John Miller | Oren [Wilboks?] |
| John Richardson Jr | George Wheeler |
| John, D, Griswold | Warner Gilbert |
| Jerome B Hunt | |
| J, K, Hale | J. C. Peck |
| Jared H Goodrell | |
| Almon Eggleston | H. Bennett |
| E S Lain | Peter Hunter |
| John Raffity | |
| Andrew Rutherford | R. Alderman |
| Houghton Alger | |
| Hervey Lake | |
| Thos McNiece | Franklin B. French |
| Thomas Collins | James Cook |
| I Ingersoll | |
| W B [F?]arr | Jacob Ward |
| C Lovejoy | Chs. [Willow?] |
| C. B. Welch | S. G. Hathaway Jr |
| M B Stone | ^X^Henry S, Barte, Jr,^X^ |
| William Chapman | James May |
| James, A, Otis^396^ | B. C. Smith |
| John Pike | Thomas Maxwell |
| Kitchell Lyon | |
| John Little | |
| P. S, Donahe | Anson Rowe |
| Samuel Gillet | E. H Smith |
| S, L, May | E Howell |
| W. B. Johnson | John T French |
| John N Hovey | [?] Moses Cotes |
| O Hunt | |
| Barnebas Clark | Saml L Selden |
| [Amos?] Cross | |
| Wm M Teller | B, F, [Howard?] |
| [A. R. Barnett?] | Augustus Tyler |
| Jacob [grant?] | |
| W M Hawley | Wm Kelley ^[ |
| Edward Gerue^X^ | Joseph L White |
| John Mcconnel | |
| E, F, Church | J. G, Barte |
| D B Garlinghouse | James De Puy |
| G A. [Rogers?] | C. Waggoner |
| L. W. Russ. | |
| James French | Aaron Barber |
| M. D. De Puy | [David Thomson?] |
| Joel Bullard | |
| Andrew P Shults | R Thayer |
| Willard Storms | N Harris |
| Reuben [Wilber?] | Wm [J Neally?] |
| Henry Rising | John L Smith |
| J, C, Smead | Thaddeus Stewart |
| Deloss, Rose | Marshal Stewart |
| R B Wilkes | John [Corey?] |
| Ira Read | Bartholomew Wilkes^448^ |
| Henry Van Hoosen Jr | D. Parsons |
| Truman Strong | Henry Miller |
| Orace Tucker | Benj G, Cook |
| D H Hinds | W W Mo[?] |
| William H Walton | [?] D D [Lewis?] |
| Caleb Allen | Samuel Bellis |
| Warner M Aldrich | Peter Sutton |
| F Crandal | Amasa Dickey |
| George Rutherford | |
| Tomppkins Covert | John S French |
| Mosis Crockstone | |
| ^X^Philip Whitman | T J Boileau |
| Gurdin Munsel | John Diley^485^ |
| Stephen Taylor | John [Richtmyer?] |
| Ira H Horton | |
| E, W, Moss | James R [Sloan?] |
| A J Peck | Zechariah Hibler |
| Wm Thomas | |
| James McCartney | Isaac Craft |
| [?] | |
| Wm Morgan | G. B. Richardson |
| James Dunn | James Stewart |
| P [Marlew?] | David Miller |
| P, Howley | George, Renshaw |
| Thomas Wilcox | Edwd Y, Knapp |
| ^X^Caleb Chase | George W Earnest^510^ |
| Geo. W Taylor | Fredrick Howard |
| Geo H Roger | |
| Jesse Concklin | David Chissom |
| Samuel Davis | James Dier |
| John Faulkner | Peter Johorn |
| F, Holden. | John Hedges |
| C Coston | [?] L Brace^525^ |
| John D Yost | |
| Henry S Yost^X^ |
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New York
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Petition of N. V. Knickerbacker & 524 others citizens of Steuben Co. N.Y. for the passage of a Law making newspapers free for
30 miles & a uniform rate of for Letters.
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May 29, 1848 Referred to the Committee on the Post Office & Post Roads.
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Com Post offices and post routes
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, Â