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. |
| John Shorey | Dedham | ||
| Francis Guild | do | ||
| Wm. Nichols | do | ||
| F. E. Wellington | West Cambridge | ||
| W. W. B. Lindley | Woburn | ||
| Joseph S Stevens Jr | Gloucester | ||
| Horatio G Sanford | Boston | ||
| John Fussell | Roxbury | ||
| L. E. Brackett | Somerville | ||
| John D. Clapp | Dedham | ||
| G. E. Gardner | Boston | ||
| Hosea Crane ^Portsmouth is out of the state^ | Portsmouth | ||
| G [?] Bosson | Boston | ||
| Nathaniel Blanchard | Weymouth | ||
| James Molinaux | Boston | ||
| J Q A Peirce | Leominster | ||
| M M Fisher | Medway | ||
| W M Chase | West Cambridge | ||
| Jesse A Locke | Newton | ||
| B. F. Danforth. | Boston | ||
| Jeremiah C Bacheller | Lynn | ||
| John P. Bowken Jr | Boston | ||
| Israel Fearing | Weymouth | ||
| Otis Cary | Foxborough | ||
| P H Field &Co | Boston | ||
| Joseph Tucker | Boston |
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Petition of John Shorey & 26 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,