No 25
A Joint Resolution in relation to the postage on newspapers and publick documents
Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana That our Senators in
Congress are hereby instructed and our Representatives requested to procure if possible
a change in the postage Law so that all documents printed by authority of the States
and all newspapers ordered for distribution among the people by the Legislature shall
be carried in the United States mail free of postage
And be it further resolved that his Excellency the Governor be directed to transmit
to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress a duly certified copy of the
foregoing resolution
G. W. CarrSpeaker of the House of RepsParis. C. Dunning
President of the Senate
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Approved December 27th 1848
Paris C DunningOriginated in the House
John. W. Dodd Clk[ certification
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Secretary of state
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State of Indiana, to wit:
I Charles H Test, Secretary of State for the State of Indiana, do hereby certify the
foregoing to be a true, full and complete copy of the above recited Joint Resolution,
as appears from the enrolment in my office
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the state,
at Indianapolis this 20th day of January AD. 1849
Charles H TestSecretary of state
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Indiana
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Joint Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Indiana in Relation to postage
on newspapers and Documents &c
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January 25, 1849 Referred to the Committee on the Post Office & Post Roads.
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referred to Come on P. O. & P Roads
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Cathcart
Handwritten 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,