To the Honorable the Senate & House of Representatives of the United States in Congress
assembled:
The Subscribers, citizens of the County of Adams in the State of Pennsylvania, respectfully
pray your honorable bodies, that the provision in the Act of Congress of March 3rd 1847 requiring three cents postage to be prepaid on all newspapers not mailed from the office of publication,
may be repealed.
That all newspapers may circulate from the office of publication, through the County
in which they are published, free of postage and that such other modifications may
be
made in the postage laws may be made as will secure a uniform system of cheap postage
on letters &c. And they will pray &c
| Samuel H. Bucher | |
| R Smith | Conrad Weaver |
| A D Buehler | D. MConaughy |
| A R Stevenson | Saml McCreavy |
| H R Russell | |
| J. J. Baldwin | |
| J L Well | |
| H. D. Sweney | |
| W W Paxton | |
| David Troxell | |
| Geo C [?] | |
| A. Cobean | |
| T [Warren?] | |
| Wm. King. | H J [Schreiner?] |
| David Heagy | H. Denwiddie |
| C. W. Hoffman. | Jas. Diery |
| Wm Weygandt | J. Aughinlaugh |
| B [Sahrives?] | Marcus Samson |
| [?] | |
| A. B. Kurtz | |
| Levi McElroy | |
| Wm Wilson | |
| R[?]McCreary | Wm F. Hamilton |
| Jno M Stevenson | E Manning |
| Mih [?] Newman | |
| W. B. McClellan | David McElroy |
| James G. Reed | |
| Saml Witherow | |
| C. Henry Buehler | |
| D A Buehler | James Major |
| Geo E Buehler | |
| R. G. Harper. | |
| M. Jacobs | |
| William Bogle | |
| Philip Sheeden | M. L. Stoever |
| Geo Arnold | Jonas Kregeld |
| H. Aughinlaugh | |
| Chas Horner | Ephrm Zuck |
| David McCreary | Z. Herbert |
| D. Horner | |
| Danl M. Smyser | |
| [?] [Keller?] Kurtz | |
| Robert Cobean | |
| Ephrm Martin | David Mellinger |
| Abm Arnold | |
| Samuel Gallougher | Moses M. Neely |
| Jacob Griest | |
| John Blocker | Wm McHenry |
| Jacob Anlabaugh | |
| Jno H M’Clellan | Wm W. Namersby |
| [?] D Paxton | Solomon Shespy |
| S. Blake | G [?] |
| Jacob G Walter | |
| E P. Hildebrand | Daniel Arendt |
| J. Cunningham | Geo M Boggs |
| W Wisoteykus | A. Essick. |
| R A. Fink | |
| John Wible | |
| T. Wm Brauns | |
| George Trostle | |
| L. E. Albert | |
| Wm M. Reynolds. | C. A. Cowgill |
| A. W. Maginly | |
| Saml F. Neely | Saml Yingling |
| John. W. Weigle | Fred R Benedict |
| Joseph Walker | Elias S. Henry |
| Ferdinand Berkemayer Jr | Chas H. Hersh |
| Alexander Trager | |
| J. Geo. Butler. | |
| John [?] Burrell | |
| R. B Hill | D. M Gardner |
| David Stroh | Danl Minnigh |
| Peter Roby | Robert Tate |
| Henry Welty | |
| S. S. Schmucker | Jno Dickson |
| D. [Mioolecoff?] | |
| John M Brinkerhoff | |
| D. Gilbert | Wm [?] Waller |
| H. S. Hildebraug | John Brinkehoff |
| A. P. Baugher | N B. Sarmer |
| Geo H Swope | Hugh A Mcgaughy |
| David Stewart | |
| Wm. Boyer | Martin Mickey |
| H. L. Baugher | Hugh Mc Elhenny |
| Samuel Witherow | |
| Jno Garvin | John Chritzman |
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citizens of Adams Co Pa for reduction of Postage
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January 17. 1849 Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.
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refer to com: on Post offices & Post roads
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Stewart of Pa
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,