PETITION TO CONGRESS FOR CHEAP POSTAGE.
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled:
The undersigned, Citizens of Massachusetts, respectfully petition Congress to pass
a Law to establish A UNIFORM RATE OF Postage, not to exceed ONE CENT ON Newspapers, and TWO CENTS on each PRE-PAID Letter of half an ounce, for ALL DISTANCES.
And as in duty bound will ever pray.
| NAMES. | RESIDENCE. | NAMES. | RESIDENCE. | |
| A. H. Bradford, | Boston | Joseph Hibbard | Quincy | |
| Geo S Wood | So Boston | James C. Hallett | Halifax | |
| Asa Graham | Joseph Fisher | Boston | ||
| Jas Haseltine | Daniel P Webb | " | ||
| Geo Robinson | A. H. Wolcott | " | ||
| A G Safford | Charles C Haynes | |||
| Peter L Rich | Octavus Boston | |||
| Page Lovejoy | Heman F Hersey | |||
| Stephen H Pierce | Isaac H Kenyon | |||
| George P. Woodworth |
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| John. S. Pickering | S. Braintree | Edward Navin | " | |
| Wm. Howe | Abner [MCutchin?] | Boston | ||
| Laban B Howard | [?] L. P. Foster | |||
| Samuel S Pickering | Charles C Bragg | |||
| Lyman Jaackson | George Munay | |||
| Alpheus Gleason | Francis D Hartz | |||
| John B Mkidden | M Leavitt | Neponset | ||
| Nathaniel Cummings | Orin Young | " | ||
| Edwin. B. Stone | J C Robinson | " | ||
| Joel A Wood | M H Stanly | " | ||
| Leonard Sawyer | Boston | Lewis Baxter Jun | " | |
| Elias Woodworth, | South Boston | Ebenezer Hill | " | |
| Orme Bradford | Dorchester | G B Richardson | " | |
| Joseph F Pastor | Boston, South, Boston | Saml H Dyke | " | 37th
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| Jarvis Lothrop | Boston | Samuel G Alden | " | |
| Samuel M Cummings | So Boston | Robert T Pierce | ||
| Chase Parker | Boston | William F Hayward | " | |
| James H Case | " | Jonathan N Hayward | " | |
| Otis Freeman | " | Alex S Jackson | " | |
| John Brown | " | Z Lord | Boston | |
| Henry Stewart | " | J S Wilder | Neponset | |
| Israel Trask | " | Hiram W Blanchard | " | |
| Thomas Ware | Neponsett | D B Bartlett | ||
| John P Spooner | " | |||
| Saml Marshall | " | H. W. Noyes | Abington | |
| T. B Hall | Neponset | D A Ford | " | |
| Nathl Tolman | Emerson Hunt | " | ||
| J B Hall | John R Bonney | " | ||
| Saml D Manning | W. R. Gilson | " | ||
| Robard Hill | Daniel Gloyd | " | ||
| E A Perkins | Ezekiel Reed | " | ||
| Charles Libby | Walston Brown | " | ||
| John W Legallee | Henry Dunham | " | ||
| Thos A Spencer | Seth C Emerson | " | ||
| Alford Smith | Amos S Reed | " | ||
| Silas Leonard | Martin Church | " | ||
| Ebenr Haines | Luther A. Powars | " | ||
| F. Leavenworth | William P. Clark | " | ||
| George Trask | Joseph Hobart | " | ||
| C Widdows | Josiah D Emery | " | ||
| W H. Chamberlain | Thomas S Weck | " | ||
| W I Merriam | Samuel Wales | " | ||
| James [?] Baxter | E. Townsend Col | " | ||
| Elias Sampson | Wm Townsend | " | ||
| O E Allen | ||||
| G. H. Martin | ||||
| A M Smith | ||||
| J H Mellus | ||||
| A C Ford | ||||
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Petition of A H. Bradford & 110 others, in behalf of Cheap Postage.
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Horace Mann, Committee on Post Offices & Post Roads.
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,