To the Hon Members of Congress now assembled:
Your petioners would respectfully ask you that you would during this present session
reduce the rate of Postage to two cents on all Letters, and other mailable matters
in like proportion, and do away with the franking priviledge
Ellsworth Mahoning Co, O, June 6th /48| Lynds Lord | P. Adams |
| C A Bingham | J. W. [Edwards?] |
| William Ripley Jr | Wm Eastman |
| Lemuel Bingham | Sehon Wadsworth ^Jr^ |
| James McCain | Lemuel R. Bingham |
| Geo. Stephens | |
| William Bottum | E A Bottum |
| Solomon [Floor?] | John C Fusselman |
| C. A. Bunts | Benjamin Bunts |
| Samuel Smith | Joseph Murphey |
| Geo. F. Webb | Nelson Steel |
| Richard Bunts | Chars Fitch |
| George D. Young | Jesse Howard |
| Isaac Kirkpatrick | James McNeilly |
| [John?] H. Witherill | William Fitch |
| Amos Taylor | Walter Smith |
| Martin Kirkpatrick | Martin Allen |
| Richard Fitch | |
| Henry Ripley | Nathan L Bingham |
| Charles Newton | M. B. Dean |
| William Ripley | John Patton |
| Geo Roderick Morton, jr | Samuel Rose |
| Samuel Courtney | |
| Augustus Spaulding | |
| Wm Hubler | |
| Chauncey H Allen | |
| Samuel McKain | |
| Asa W Allen | |
| Calvin Parker | |
| Oramil Stone | |
| Nicholas Gee |
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Petition of P. Adams J. W. Edwards and others, citizens of Ellsworth Mahoning Co. O. praying the reduction of the rate of postage to two cents on all letters, and
other mailable matter in like proportion, and doing away with the franking privilege.
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Presented by J. Crowell
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June 21, 1848
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Crowell
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,