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PETITION FOR CHEAP POSTAGE.
To THE Senate AND House OF Representatives OF THE United States, IN Congress ASSEMBLED:
The undersigned, citizens of respectfully petition Congress to pass a law, establishing
1. A uniform rate of Two Cents postage on letters weighing half an ounce, and two cents for every additional half ounce, prepaid, and double that rate if not prepaid. Drop letters one cent.
2. Newspapers, periodicals, and all printed matter, one cent per sheet; but newspapers of the smaller size half a cent, to be prepaid, except newspapers and periodicals sent from the office of publication.
3. To reduce the postage on letters and newspapers by mail packet 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 privilege 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 postmasters to be remunerated for the loss of the franking privilege and the temporary diminution of their income, by an increase of their commissions.
NAMES. PLACE OF RESIDENCE.
Wm Reddy Kingston Pa
J. H. Cargill. Kingston Pa
D. A. Lamb Kingston Pa
R. Nelson ""
Giles LaBar ""
David W Montgomery ""
Reuben H Little ""
John M Cormick ""
H. N. Kelly ""
A J Davis ""
A [?] Whalens ""
[?] [?]ty [?]"
Samuel Barnes Kingston Pa
Chas L. Rice dodo
Levi W Rice dodo
E. C. Griswold dodo
J S Lewis dodo
Agib Ricketts Orangeville Pa
Jefferson Rees
Hiram Rees
George B Mills DamascusDo
James McKune Kingston
B. R. Jackson Sullivan
Byron. D. Sturdevant Skinners Eddy
Benjamin F. Evans Kingston
T Y Peck Kingston
M C Smith Kingston
H O Silkman Baconville
Horatio Hadsall Franklin
Simeon T. Bush Damascus
George Wood Kingston
Mathew H Dale ""
Philander [?] ""
Mary Dietz. Kingston Pa
" " 		Miss Eliza Jane Baughtin ""
Elouisa Little. "" " Ellen M Woodward ""
Margaret Seybert "" " Elizabeth Woodward ""
Clara Rupert "" " Mary Bowman Hancock "[...?]"
Sarah A. Comfort ^Sec.^ "" Susan A. Hanover ""
E. J. Gilmore "" Laura E Campfield ""
Elizabeth H Little "" Mary E Needham ""
Emma Rupert "" Lorinda Masey ""
Esther Patrick "" Mary Lucinda Lamb. ""
Sarah H. Lyons ^Tre^ "" Ellen [?] Osborn Honodo[?]
Margaret Harvey ""
Mary Silsby Kingston Pa
Martha W Bennett ""
Lucretia. J. Wells Cen. ""
Ruth. R Butler ""
Louise A Lazarus ""
Elizabeth J McFarlane ""
Harriet B. Hoyt. ""
Ellen M Reese ""
Catharine Hancock ""
Lucy. A. Mott ""
Mary Atherton ""
Elizabeth Jones ""
Frances A Walker. ""
Emily Skeer ""
H L Shoemaker. ""
Lucinda Church ""
Mary S Hoyt ""
Miranda Myers ""
Clarinda A McHarlane ""
Phalla Ransom ""
Helen C. Williams ""
E L Brian ""
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KINGSTON. P.A
^[Jan?] 30^Hon Chester Butler, H. R.WashingtonD.C.
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Petition of Wm Reddy & others, citizens of Kingston Luzerne County praying for the establishment of a uniform system of postage and certain other alterations in the Postage Laws.
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February 9 1849 Referred to the Committee on the Post office and Post Roads
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Come Post office & Post Roads
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Butler

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,