The Petition of the Subscribers citizens of Centre County, Pennsylvania Respectfully represents:

That your petitioners have seen that a bill has been reported in one or both of your honorable bodies reducing the rates of Postage, which bill has the approbation of your petitioners: but we have also seen with regret, that said bill does not provide for carrying Newspapers in the Mails free of Postage within the County printed, and to the distance of thirty miles from the place where such papers are printed. Your petitioners therefore pray your honorable bodies that the bill may be so amended as to embrace the above provision. And as in duty bound they will ever pray &c