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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. |
| Sullivan Whitney. | Newton | Stephen W. Trowbridge | Newton. |
| Sylvanus Wetherbee | " | Francis Hall | " |
| Ebenezer Hyde | " | Jonas Smith Jr | " |
| B. Marston Watson | " | E H Crowther | " |
| Hiram Wheelock | " | H L Christian | " |
| Ezra Wing | " | John Trige | " |
| Henry Bigelow | " | George Hutchinson | " |
| Elbridge Goddard | " | T A Ireland | " |
| G. W. Bacon | " | George Daniel | " |
| A. B Cobb | " | Wm H Seeland | " |
| Orrin Whipple | " | Jonas Smith | " |
| J A Locke | " | Joel Dorr | " |
| Wm Y Adams | " | ||
| E. H. Burnham | " | I. L. Barker | " |
| Isaac Russell | " | ||
| L. M. Durkee | " | G. A. O. Pierce | |
| Stephen Holmes | " | Aaron Adams | |
| Jacob Allen | " | E B Armstrong | |
| E Jackson. | " | B. S. Wetherbee. | |
| Tho: Smallwood Jr | |||
| James N [Trowbridge?] | " | George Cummins | |
| Joel Eaton | " | Valentin Reinhart | |
| Leonard Emerson | " | Eli B Comstock | |
| David Damon | " | N D Tibbets | |
| Daniel A Tainter | " | Aaron Rogers | |
| Chas J Flagg | Do. | ||
| A B Griffin | " | Henry L Doyle | |
| C S Sanborn | " | S. Robbins Wetherbee | |
| H. B. Brannan | " | Ethan Wetherbee | |
| Joseph Saunders | " | Abraham Thomas | |
| John Boyd | " | Charles. H. Pierce | |
| Silas Waterhouse | " | Russel Holland | |
| Wm Robt Murdock | " | E. H. Curtis | |
| Jacob Stearns | " | Henry Fuller | |
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Petition of Sullivan Whitney & 63 others, in behalf of Cheap Postage.
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Horace Mann.
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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,