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To the Hon Senate, & House of Representatives, in Congress assemblied,
The undersigned, legal voters, respectfully request the repeal of the franking privilege, & the reduction of all ordinary letter-postage to 2 cents, prepaid, & that of news papers in due proportion.
Acton Mass June 27, 1848.
James T. Woodbury Jonas Blodget
Jonathan Wheelen [?] Nahum Conant
Silas F, Jacobs, T G [?] Jones
William, R, Lathrop, L, B, Gilman
Timothy Hartwell H. N, Bowers
Hiram D Richardson Henry Fairbanks
Stevens Hayward John W Buttrick
Rufus Holden Silas Conant Jr.
Nathl [Gasstill?] Moses Taylor
Luther Wilkins George Brooks
Luther Conant Asaph Parlin
Aaron Wheeler Samuel Sawyer
John Fletcher thomas Kinsely
William D. Tuttle Isaac Bullard
Dennis Putnam Amos Handley
S F Wheeler Reuben Wheeler
Francis Kinsley John White
Wilson Bride J Pinkerton
Abel [Farrar?] Samuel Jones
Charles McDupee Henry Holden
J. Holden Tuttle S. W. Walker
Samuel Farwell Daniel Flagg
Daniel Barker Joseph Reed
Abner Hosmer Charles Tuttle
Simon Hapgood [Caleb?] W. [?]
Simon Hapgood Jr Cyrus Dole
Thomas Haynes Davis Parlin
Joseph Wheeler Charles R Bowers.
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Massachusetts.
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Petition of James T. Woodbury & 55 others of Acton, Mass for repeal of the franking privilege & reduction of letter postage.
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July 7, 1848. Referred to the Committee on the Post Office & Post Roads
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John G. Palfrey
July 7th, 1848.
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Committee on the Post. office & Post-Roads.
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Palfrey

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,