PETITION FOR CHEAP POSTAGE.
To THE Senate AND House OF Representatives OF THE United States, IN Congress ASSEMBLED:
The undersigned, citizens of
Sutton N.H.
respectfully petition Congress to pass a law, establishing
1. A uniform rate of Two Cents postage on letters weighing half an ounce, and two cents for every additional half
ounce, prepaid, and double that rate if not prepaid.
2. Newspapers, 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.
3. To reduce the postage on letters and newspapers by mail packets and steamers, to
a rate which will bring it within the means of every class of citizens to maintain
frequent intercourse with their 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. |
| Benjamin Wadleigh | Sutton N.H |
| Erastus A. Wadleigh | Corliss Wadleigh |
| Polly Wadleigh | Lydia F Wadliegh |
| James M Beasley | James M Nelson |
| Judith Peaslee | Susan P Putney |
| Mary A Kendrick | Harriet M Thissell |
| Erastus Wadleigh | Lucy D Sargent |
| Mary W. Wadleigh | Jacob T sargent |
| J. S. [Harory?] | |
| Frank Nelson | |
| David Woodward | |
| Daniel Woodard | Charles Hart |
| A. P. Richards | John G. Hart |
| G. W. Richards | J. Greeley Jr |
| B. S. Putney | |
| Daniel [Couch?] | |
| Harrison Fellows | |
| Tuppan Sanborn | Phineas Crosby |
| Stephen Woodward | |
| John Pressey | |
| Simon Palmer | Benjm H. Tilbetts |
| Almira M. Harvey. | Elmy Burpee |
| Marian Greely | |
| Sarah, Champlin | |
| Ebenezer Andrew | Benj. P Nelson |
| Truman Putney |
Wm[ |
| John W. Blodgett | Nicholas Rowell |
| Thomas J Chadwick | D. F. Sargent |
| Mansel Blake | Joshua Babbs |
| David Palmer | C. G. Pressey |
| Moses Nelson Jr | Angeline Browne |
| Joseph. P. Nelson | Dimond Davis |
| Israel P Sanborn | Harvey Nelson |
| John Williams | Betsey Blake |
| Calvin Stone | Mary G. Marshall |
| Otis. Stone | George Fellows |
| Thos Cheney | Simeon Stevens |
| J Sanford Stevens | John Fenson |
| Levi F Brown | Ruth M A Stinson |
| John Pillsbury | Serepta Tibbetts |
| Charles Jewett | Jonathan Ambrose |
| Lyman Cheney | Wm. S Bean |
| Enoch Page | William Moore |
| Sarah D Bean | [?]en Nelson |
| Philip N Little | P A Hazen |
| Peter Sanborn | James H Bean |
|
[ |
John Nelson |
| George W Palmer | [?] N. Pressey |
| Andrew Peaslee | Samuel Rowell Jr |
| Daniel Sargent | Josiah P Nelson |
| David Ambrose | Jacob Ba[?] |
| George Putney | Hannah Andrews |
| Lucas Nelson | Daniel Davis |
| C. Susan C. Palmer | Reuben G Messer |
| David Chadwick | Albert Nelson |
| Harriet C. Story | Lydia P Sanborn |
| Lucy Nelson | Lydia N Putney |
| Lavinia Sanborn | O F Davis |
| Lavinia F. Sanborn. | Plo[?]a P Palmer |
| Julia A. Sanborn. | Nancy Palmer |
| [Saml ?]Colby | Betsy Colby |
| Nathan Champlin | |
| Artemas Whitney | |
| Joseph Greeley | Abel Wheeler |
| Alfred Richards | John Harvey |
| Daniel Whitcomb | A. J. Towle |
| Dmel M Hazen | Ruth E Ambrose |
| J. Wm. Moore | Mary A Towle |
| Samuel S. Ambrose | Betsey P Andrew |
| James Hazen Jr | Ann S Ambrose |
| Hiram A Davis | Caroline Y Fifield |
| Nathaniel M Ambrose | Lucy J Messer |
| Charles A Towle | Lydia M Bailey |
| Cyrus French | Mariette R Fowler |
| G. W. Gardner | Edward G Verlin |
| Charles E. Carleton. | David Brown |
| Charles E. Downing | Emery Bailey |
| Lewis Richards | Abby E. Porter. |
| Nathan Burpee | Mary J Bean |
| Daniel Putney | Susan E. Foster |
| Benja P. Sargent | M H Fifield |
| Samuel F Whitcomb | Sarah Wadleigh |
| Robert Wadleigh | Margaretta Porter |
| Adaline F. Sargent | |
| Lucia [?] Putney | |
| [Dorothy Greeley?] | |
| [?] Carleton | |
| Theresa [?] Carleton | |
| Chas A. Fowler | |
| John G Wheeler | |
| Edmund Blood | |
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NEW YORK 3 ctsDEC[ 22?]
PAID Hon Benjamin Wadleigh Sutton N.H.
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Petition of Benjn Wadleigh & 160 other citizens[...?] of Sutton NH for reduced postage & abolition of franking privilege
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January 19 1849 Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.
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Refer to Committee on Post Office & Post Roads
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C H Peaslee of NH
Partially 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,