To the Hon. Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled.
The undersigned, citizens of Abington, Mass. respectfully request, that you abolish
the franking power and reduce ordinary letter postage to two cents, and that of news papers in due proportion.
| Alonso Chapin | |
| Samuel Reed Jnr | |
| Horace C Totman | |
| Augustus N Wassen | |
| Nathan S Jenkins | |
| Elias Burnell | |
| Dexter Reed | |
| Benjamin F Bergess | |
| Ebenezer N Bean | |
| Elias Pool | |
| [James?] Jenkins 2d | |
| Joseph French | |
| Jenkins Lane | |
| Pelham Winslow | |
| Silas Lane Jr | |
| Marshall Lane | |
| [Parmlite?] Alden | |
| Henry R Curtis | |
| Ira Baldwin. | |
| Benjamin Frost | |
| Horace D Walker | |
| Henry Moore | |
| Vynes Pool | |
| Sylvester H Dawes | Franklin Smith |
| Stephen Baldwin | Joseph Dill |
| Thomas [Vinton?] | Ephraim Hall |
| James M Mansur | George Hatch |
| Charles Tribon | Lewis Cobbett |
| Henry Coy | William H Dyke |
| Robert Buss | George Turner |
| Benj Beal 3d | Benj H Delano. |
| Nathan [ |
David Holbrook |
| Josiah K. Fuller | Joshua Curtis |
| Sumner Shaw | [Lewis?] Holbrook |
| Daniel. G. Wheeler | Jarius Keen |
| Henry Chase | Daniel Blanchard |
| Josiah Soule | Nathaniel Blanchard |
| Jas H. Fenno. | |
| Ephraim W Hatch | |
| W J. Kellogg | |
| James [C?] Furman | |
| Benj. Sherman | |
| John E Church | |
| John Giles | |
| Samuel Ellis. | |
| John | |
| John Moore | |
| J T [Shalen?] | |
| Elbridge Lane | |
| Almond Grover | |
| George C [Dunler?] | |
| Henry Stetson | |
| Elijah A Shaw | |
| Ira Blanchard | |
| Leander Curtis | |
| Geor. W Wood | |
| Nathaniel R Smith | |
| J W Hunt | |
| Edmund A Shaw | |
| E W Elwell | |
| William Coy | |
| Henry Lovell | |
| Wm E. Vearie | |
| Turner R Holbrook | |
| Asahel Beal | |
| David Hunt jr | |
| A Alonso J Grover | |
| George F Truett | |
| D[?] Holbrook | |
| Aaron Philips | |
| Andrew Rogers | |
| Elbridge [S?] Whiting | |
| Claudius B, Winson | |
| Joshua W. Mann |
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Massachusetts.
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Petition of Alonso Chapin & others for the abolition of the franking privilege & for
the reduction of Postage.
Presented by Mr, Mann. of Massachusetts, with a request that it may be referred to the Committee for Post Offices & Post Roads,
Presented by Mr, Mann. of Massachusetts, with a request that it may be referred to the Committee for Post Offices & Post Roads,
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July 10. 1848. Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.
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H. Mann
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,