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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 ofrespectfully 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 packets 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.
William P. Tilden Walpole N.H.
Mary J. Tilden "
[La?] Ephm Holland
F B Knapp.
A. Hosmer.
Samuel W Lincoln
John Jenison
Francis Locke
W. G. Wyman
L L Wyman
J H Tracy
Ebenr [Morse?]
F. F. Lane
E. S. Wells.
L. M. Greele.
E. M Wells
Samuel S. Greele.
Charles C Tudor
Thomas G. Wells.
John Farnsworth
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Petition of Wm P. Tilden & 83 others of Walpole NH for cheap postage
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February 13, 1849 Referred to the Committee on the Post Office & Post Roads.
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Comee of Post Offices &c.
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Wilson
N.H.
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Names Residence
Names Residence M. A. Mitchell Walpole
Geo W Grant Walpole NH M E Peck. "
Walton Mead " Fanny F. Foster.
Willard Blanchard E [Elisabeth?] Mead
Joseph C Mattoon S Miller
H. D. Fay S Ann Benson
Sherman Watkins
Levi H Foster Mary E. Farr.
Anson [Dale?] Susan Knapp
Oliver Martin Lucretia S. Hooper
Philip Peck Harriett M. Holland.
William Johnson Harriet Hooper
George R Jenison P. L. Bellows
Charles Jenison Louisa B. Hayward
Sulivan H McCollester. Harriet A Bellows
H. B. Maynard [?] H E. Holland
C Fisher
A [Faukner?]
H. S. Bellows.
T. Kittredge Isabella Goodhouse.
C. F. Harrington. Ellen M Clark
H C Rauson E. G. Stratton
Mary Brown M [?]. Nichols
Martha Hooper S. A. Babbitt
Priscilla Murphy Chas S. Lincoln.
Ellen A Kraetzer
E C. Mitchell Geo. C. Lincoln
Mrs R. L. Ball. E A Lincoln
M. Harrington M J Lincoln
Mary J Guild C. E. Evans
Mrs Sarah Craggin Vession Hefflon Esqr
Mary J Clark
Lydia A Maynard [Rev?] [Mr?] Barstow
Mary A. Maynard.
Eunice E Evans.
Mary Maynard
Elisa W Crosly
Edward Crosly

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,