Petition for Cheap Postage.
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled;The undersigned, citizens of the County of Seneca, in the State of New York, respectfully
petition Congress to pass a law, establishing
1 A uniform rate of two cents on letters weighing half an ounce, and two cents for
every additional half ounce pre-paid, and double that rate if not prepaid.
2. Newspapers, periodicals and all printed matter, one cent per sheet prepaid; but
newspapers of the smaller size half a cent.
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 privelege 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 Post Masters to be remunerated for the loss of the franking privelege and the
temporary diminution of their income by an increase of their Commissions.
Dated January 9th 1849.Saml. Stucker<Page 2>
| Thos Fatzinger | [ |
| Edward Fatzinger | Geo W Pryor |
| Levi Elmendorf | Add. T. Knox |
| Warrin Wardwelf | C Loring |
| William Kittrick | Jos Louis |
| David Warner | |
| O Broshite | Ebert Taylor |
| John Lambert | W A Strong |
| J F Deull | |
| Z A. Disbrow | J C Robinson |
| Chs Walters | John Tharp |
| Wm Brown | Edmund Gay |
| H. A. Lee | M. G. Noyes |
| Edward Richards | J J Van Allen |
| Jno S D Mercer | Joel S Lindy |
| John Blair | J. C. Strong |
| Wm H Seely. | |
| Andrew Sherman | Wm L Brooks |
| Sidney Warner | I. H. Ackerman |
| W Willson | |
| Henry Kelly | |
| P M Disbrow | |
| Joel Willson | |
| Saml Sawyer | |
| L. H. Day | |
| J Lindenwood | |
| Milo Disbrow | |
| Gerome B Dickeson | |
| Isaac Mosher | |
| Samuel Blaidel | |
| Clinton Burges | |
| A. B. Shanson | |
| [Brisnot?] Cook | |
| John Purdie | |
| Wm Knox |
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Petition of Henry Fatsinger and many other citizens of Waterloo New York asking a reducd and Uniform rate of Postage and the abolition of the Franking privelege
By E. Blackmar
Petition of Henry Fatsinger and many other citizens of Waterloo New York asking a reducd and Uniform rate of Postage and the abolition of the Franking privelege
By E. Blackmar
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Refer to Com on Post office & post Roads
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January 24 1849 Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads
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Free
To/Hon. Esbon Blackmar M. C.Washington,D.C.WATERLOO [?]JAN [?]
Autograph 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,