To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in
Congress Assembled:
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 petioners: 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.
| A S Myers | C. C. Price |
| Alex Knoll | Wm [McMibbn?] |
| Wm R Harrison | |
| William Gillen | |
| Wm S Wolf | A. G Curtin |
| Micheal Rider | |
| Owen Astin | Wm Tipton |
| William Johnston | Jacob. E. Stover |
| John O. [Working?] | John Noss |
| [?] J. Corman | |
| Joseph Schnell | |
| M[?] Clepper | Chas W. Lambert |
| H. S. Gross | |
| Wm Allison | J. K. Shoemaker |
| John [Ta?] | |
| D. Witmer | Joseph North |
| J. G. Meyers | |
| Wm H Watson | |
| Saml C. Brown | John Johnson |
| Adam Rankin | |
| Lewis Fracker | Samuel Herrick |
| Benj Bennet | David Duncan |
| John Melcher | |
| John Rothrock | |
| Thomas M Geffen | |
| David Dinges | Wm D. Legg |
| Jacob Gettz Jn | |
| John L Gettz | Wm Rodger |
| J. W. Bassler | John Turner |
| John MFaddin | Wm C Welch Jr |
| Wm Marshall | |
| J. Barker | John Bawl |
| Chs Macbride | |
| Edwd [Humes?] | |
| Jas Eilhlann | |
| Jas S. Kent | |
| James T. Hale | |
| H. Humes | |
| D Clinton Welch | Henry Orndorff |
| Samuel [Li?] | Wm Cook |
| Wm [?] Harris | John Mallester |
| Chas. Steward | John Adams |
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Petition of C C. Price & Sixty two others Citizens of Centre Co. Penna, praying for the passage of a Bill reducing the rates
of postage, and also providing for carrying on the mail free of postage news papers
printed within the County and within thirty miles from the place of publication &
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December 19, 1848 Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.
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Handwritten 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,