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Please have this signed and send it on to your Representative, or one of the Senators, immediately.
To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress Assembled:
The undersigned, citizens of the county of Knox and State of Ohio, respectfully ask your honorable body to re-enact so much of the Post Office law of 1845 as allows of the free transmission of newspapers by mail for the distance of thirty miles from the place where they are printed.
January 1849.
George W. Morgan
Thos E Miller T B Mead
J. B Bell Lafayette Emmett
M M B[eam?] William Dunbar
Elie Miller Wm F. Sumer
E. G. Woodward Wm [H?] Cochran Edr. “Ohio Times”
Danl Axtell
A. Morgan J. S. Davis
Alexr C. Elliott G. W. Stahl
H. M. Ramsey
J. W. [?] (free [so?]il) [...?] W. [H?]. Ramsey
Saml P. Axtell R Welsh
James E[walt?] George W. Armstrong
B. B. Lippitt R. B. Wright
S McFarland James Blake
David Gorsuch Jas Hunt[?]y
G. W. Hawk
James Lafever Albert Mitchel
S B Kinton Wm Blake
Thos [S Press?] R. C. Kirk Saml Davis
G. B. Thrailkill
Elijah Harrod Saml Elliot
John Sullivan D W Mead
D Norton Jr
D. C. Montgomery Jas Hazlett Jr John Eichelberger
John Beaty J. B. Brown
S W Fay[?] Dunning St[urdevant?]
W Mclelland A Weaver
W. S. [V?]. Prentiss
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Ohio
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The petition of Wm Dunbar & sundry other citizens of Knox Co Ohio asking for the “re-enactment[”] of so much of the Post office law of 1845 as allows the free transmission of newspapers by mail for the distance of thirty miles from the place where they are printed.
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Com on Post offices & Post Roads
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February 3. 1849 Referred to the Committee on Post office and Post Roads.
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John K Miller

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