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
^ine^, 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. | |
| Clarkson Taber | Vassalboro | Isaac Fairfield | } | Selectmen |
| Daniel Taber | " | John Homans | of | |
| George Taber | " | David G. Robinson. | Vassalboro | |
| Esther B Taber | " | Chs R. McFadden | ||
| Joseph H. Cole | " | Edwd. A. Frye | ||
| Fanny Cole | " | Prince Hopkins | ||
| Eliza Ann Taber | " | D. A. Woodrum | ||
| Lydia Maria Taber | " | Josiah H. Drummond | ||
| Hiram. Pishon | ||||
| Cynthia Hobbey | " | |||
| Rebeccah Taber | " | P. Gifford | ||
| Joseph Estes | " | Edwd Fossett | ||
| Thos E stes | " | |||
| H Randall | " | Abiel Getchell | ||
| Thomas Carlton | " | John Bush | ||
| Wm Haskell | " | Stephen Nichols Winslow | ||
| Tristam F McFadden | " | Jonathan Snow | ||
| Seth Hopkins | " | Heman B Horn | ||
| D. P. Howland | " | William Weeks | ||
| James Coombs | William Vivuan | |||
| Getchell Bragg. | ||||
| [Enoch Plummer?] | ||||
| Cyrus Jones | ||||
| Jedidiah Jepson | L A Purinton | |||
| Wm. P Miller | Frederic F Hessey | |||
| Hezekiah Pope | ||||
| Beriah Weeks | Rebecca S Pope | |||
| Asa Safford | ||||
| Levi Webber | Elizabeth Chapman | |||
| Charles Rowe | Mary C Pope | |||
| Edwd S Weeks | Eunice T Starkey | |||
| William Vivuan Jr | Benjn W. Goddard | |||
| Cyrus Plummer | Moses T Starkey | |||
| D. C. Lincoln | James Pope | |||
| Charles H Penny | 71 | |||
| George Hussey | ||||
| Thomas Frye | ||||
| Henry Pishon | ||||
| John B Gray | ||||
| Nathan Pratt | ||||
| John Perley | ||||
| Peter McKay | ||||
| A. W. Brown |
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Maine
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Petition of Charles Taber & 70 others, inhabitants of the State of Maine, in behalf
of cheap Postage.
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December 19. 1848 Referred to the Committee on the Post Office & Post Roads.
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Horace Mann of Massachusetts.
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Comtee on Post Offices & Post Roads
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Hon. H. Mann
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,