To the Hon. Senators and Representatives in Congress assembled:
Phoenix Office
The undersigned, citizens of the county of Windham State of Vermont respectfully represent, that the present law of postage upon newspapers, and mode
of compensating Postmasters, operates unequally and oppressively, favoring the city
at the expense of the country newspapers. The undersigned therefore respectfully petition
your Honorable body, to restore the law exempting newspapers from postage within the
county, and within 30 miles of the place of publication, or graduate the postage according
to distance, and repeal the law giving to Postmasters one half the postage received
upon newspapers.
The undersigned also petition your Honorable body to reduce the postage on letters
weighing half an ounce and less, to two cents for all distances, if pre-paid, and
double that amount, if not pre-paid, and to abolish the franking privilege.
| James Taggart | Abner Johnson | G W Foy |
| [Clark?] Wilkinson | Oliver Wilkinson | |
| Isek Atwood | Chapin Howard | |
| Oscar O Wheelock | Ephraim Thayer | |
| Orrin Simpson | O. R. Wells | |
| Arvan Dunton | Joseph Ellis | |
| Leland How | [O S?] Howard | |
| Samuel Wiswell | J H Atcherson | |
| Wm H [Van?] | Ebn Aben | |
| Henry. D. Bruce | N W Harris | |
| Aaron Holbrook | H M Weatherton | |
| Asa Austin | P [G?] Lowe | |
| Hiram Howe | B. E. Howard | |
| Elliot P. Merrifield | Gardner Chamberlin | |
| S E French | ||
| Walter W Fish | L. C. Everett | |
| Waldo. A. Evans | Lyman French | |
| Abel Krieder | W. N. S Loftis | |
| H. O. Bruce. | O. L. S Loftis |
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Mr RitherPhoenix Office
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Petition of
James Taggart & others of Townsend, Vermont, for a reduction on the rate of letter postage—& for the transportation of weekly papers, free, for a distance of 30 miles from the place of publication
James Taggart & others of Townsend, Vermont, for a reduction on the rate of letter postage—& for the transportation of weekly papers, free, for a distance of 30 miles from the place of publication
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February 1, 1849 Referred to the Committee on the Post Office & Post Roads.
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Mr. Henry.
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