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To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress Assembled:
The undersigned, citizens of the county of Gallia county 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.
John. T. Cochran
G. Allen Carter
W. H. Hallett Lewis Newsom
Geo. W. Hayden
George House
Simeon Roach J. R. Calhan
S. W. Nash Benj F Sprague
E Naret
James McCall
Simeon rush. S W Sherwood
S H Coleman
S. Bolivar Drouilleard.
Wm. Nash
J W Newsom
Cyrus D Greene
Wm S. Mason Gus. H. Hale
E [?] Mcnagut
Chas A Chendenin
J. J. Coombs
Ed. [?] D. C. [?]
Dennis Maxon
James skees David Alban
C [Berrage?] Wm C. Miller
Dave Armstrong
H R. Bell
C J Menager P. [?]
Jo Arringten
E. R. [?]
Ben Martin
C Menager W. B. Clark
Thomas Halliday
P Vand[?] James H Hebard
[?] Ths G. Bigelow
M Reanden
John Johnston
William Cavin
C. W. Hoy, printer
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The petition citizens of Gallia County O, praying for a law, allowing newspapers to pass free in the mails for thirty miles from the office of the Publication
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February 8, 1849 Referred to the Committee on the Post Office & Post Roads.
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vinton
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02/08/1849
Refer this petition to the Committee on Post roads.S. F VintonFeby 8th 1849

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,