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To the Honerable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled,
The undersigned Citizens of Ypsilanti in the State of Michigan, humbly pray your Honorable body to provide by law for the reduction of letter postage to a rate, to be prepaid, that shall not Exceed three cents a half ounce or under for any distance not over one thousand miles and five cents a half ounce over that distance; And that provision by law be also made for the free Transportation of Newspapers to any Post office in the State in which said Newspaper may be published; & at the rate that not to Exceed one quarter of a cent an Ounce to any Post Office without the state. and your petitions as in duty bound will Ever pray
Jas W VanCleve Chas Stuck Wm R. Martin
O. H. Lee Jas Sanders P Davis
J. E. Marvin H. B. Ten Cyck A. A. Copeland
E Grant T. M. Town H. D. Harris
N Edmunds Wm R Post S C. Miles
P North & Co B Emerick Jos Kitchen
D. Showerman P R Rawson Wm E Marvin
C. Moore C. H. Vancleve E J Hewitt
A. Platt E. Samson Thos S Hill
Chancey Worden Cicero Millington Isaac Bumpus
Richard E Morse H. H. Bumpus Charles Woodruff
W. B. Hewitt Geo. C. [Conor?] G S Shelmire
John Van Fossen D. C McKenstry N. Showerman
David. M. Uhl Francis N Clarke.
Wm A. Heartt H. W. Neill H. H. Powers
Jno R. Spring. John McCready Geo. W. Gilbert.
Julius Movius G R King A. P. Fifield
Jno. A. Wilson John Phillips T. R. Brown
Henry Compton H B. Adams Jonathan [Saly?]
M. A. Parks R W Brown Jr H H Gilbert
Grove Spencer John [?] J Hawkins
G N Skinner Jas N Cross Elias M Skinner
C. W. Lane Thomas Haffey W A [Buckley?]
Theo. Champion Joseph Martin
T O Hill J M Edmunds
D Hammond Alexander Rass
A H Ballard LaFayette Platt
James Grant John Starkweather
C. S. Woodard
L. W. Pattison
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Michigan
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Memorial of sundry Citizens of Ypsilanti, ^Michigan^ for a reduction of postage &c.
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January 6. 1849 Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.
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Refer to Com. on P.O & Post roads.
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Rb. McClelland

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,