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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 ofAllen County Ohio 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 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.
1 W. S. Rose Lima
J M Anderson 18
2 B. A. Satterthwait Richard Metheany 19
3 H. F. Hubbard John B. Warnsley 20
4 J. W. Satterthwait William Grinkel 21
5 D. B. Alexander J. H. Richardson 22
6 W. S. Coleman T. K. Jacobs 23
7 S. A. Armstrong [Mh?] Nichols 24
8 J C Curtis C. H. Williams 25
9 Lester Bliss Jos. A. Berry 26
10 Newton Hover
11 James Hover
12 W. H. C. Mitchell
13 John Titus
14 B. P. Holmes
15 J. L. Hughes
16 Charles Baker
17 Cyrus Scott
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Ohio
Law ^cheap^ Postage from citizens of Lima, O, Refered to Comt on Post office & post roads
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February 13, 1849 Referred to the Committee on the Post Office & Post Roads.
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by Mr Sawyer

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,