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Memorial for Cheap Postage of C. E. Hopkins and others, N. York
By H Greely.
By H Greely.
New York Jan 10 1849
PETITION FOR CHEAP POSTAGE.
[To]
Senate AND House OF Representatives OF THE United States, IN Congress ASSEMBLED:
[T]he undersigned, citizens of
New York city, county and State.
[respect]fully petition Congress to pass a law, establishing
[A Uni]form rate of Two Cents postage on letters weighing half an ounce, and two cents for every additional half
ounce,
[pre]repaid, and double that rate if not prepaid.
[News]papers, periodicals, and all printed matter, one cent per sheet; but newspapers of
the smaller size half a cent., to [be]
prepaid, except newspapers and periodicals sent from the office of publication.
[To re]duce the postage on letters and newspapers by mail packets and steamers, to a rate
which will bring it within the [m]eans of every class of citizens to maintain frequent intercourse with t[h]eir friends in other countries, without feeling the postage to be a burdensome tax.
4. To adopt measures that in all large towns and cities there shall be a free delivery
of letters and newspapers, and also for the reception and conveyance of letters to
the post-office for the mails free of any expense.
5. To abolish the franking privilege entirely, that postage may be paid on every thing
sent by the mails. Postage of members of Congress to be paid as their other expenses,
and postmasters to be remunerated for the loss of the franking privilege and the temporary
diminution of their income, by an increase of their commissions.
| NAMES. | PLACE OF RESIDENCE. |
| C E Hopkins | 130 West Broadway. New York city |
| F W Smith | 15 Laight St." |
| Edw Robinson | 3[?]0 Broadway |
| S. Stafford | 130 West Broadway |
| R. K. Wallace | 155 Duane St. |
| Wm R. Gray. | 155 Duane St |
| W. R. Hazlet | 61 E Broadway |
| Ann Eliza Hazlet | """ |
| Debra A Boniface | 131 West Broadway |
| Charles J Boniface | """ |
| G Boniface | 152 West Broadway |
| Y Boniface | 130 Do |
| R. Thompson. | 135DoDo |
| H. Kessler | 152 do |
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| Charles Pope Jr | 19 Hudson St. |
| Cornelius Poillon | 57 [Catha?] St |
| Joseph Millard | Astor House |
| John J Williams | 25 Green street |
| Edward Smith | 60 Canal Street |
| John Smith | 50 20th Street. |
| Thomas Brown | 2 N. Moore St. |
| F R. Moore | 29 North More St |
| E. DeForest | 24 Anthony St |
| Wm S. [Shaw?] | 6 Waters St |
| Jonathan Bigelow | 41 Crosby St |
| Elijah the Prophet. | Crosby St College |
| Martin Cole | 91 [Main?] St |
| C. W. Sandford | 110 Chambers St |
| Dr Muhlenburgh | 110 West 20 St |
| A K Gardner M D | 131 Wooster St |
| J W Francis M. D. | 8 Bond St. |
| Dr R T [all?] | 15 Laight St. |
| Richard Baxter | 4 park Place |
| J [?] Whipple | 2 W Broadway |
| Wm H Isaacs | 125" |
| Valentine Mott M D | 27 Amity Street |
| Ed Walton | 205 Cross St. |
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New York
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Petitions of citizens of New York City praying for a Reduction of postage & the abolition
of the franking privilege
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January 15, 1849 Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.
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Greeley
Partially Printed Document Signed, 4 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,