Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

PETITION FOR CHEAP POSTAGE.
To THE Senate AND House OF Representatives OF THE United States, IN Congress ASSEMBLED:
The undersigned, citizens of Le Roy, Genesee Co, New York 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.

T. R. Chipman.

C. B. Thomson. H. S. Husted

D. C. Chamberlain Abel Bennett

C A Gorton Wm Hill

Israel Rathbone

J N Babcock T Lathrop

J. W. Sherman W^m K. Titus

R L Samson W Armstrong

[Taz?] Tainbark P. W [?]

J B Brouning J. H. Cole

Caleb Palmer O. L. Vaughn

J Lathrop Lyman Gould

Milton Webb

C. B. Alderman D D B Munger

W B [?]

R Bacon C. L. Olmsted

M O Coe E B Wait

S Chamberlin H W. Howard.

E L Samson M B Hatch

M. Eells C. G. Noyes

S[?] Enos Hopkins R E Kanes

Alvin Clark

Wm Calvert John. H. [?]

H. Morehouse

E. Hinsdale Edward M^cpherson

W. Halbert Angus Mcpherson

L. M. Bangs William Comer

Harvy Coe C Morgan

J. Summerfield W. B. Ledrew

James M^cLaren A L Tompkins

Orrin Starr

J. W. [Skidd?] H Rathbone

H. David H. Hitchcock

H. C. Skinner Joseph. D Waterman

H M [Belding?] M C Perkins

W^m Spalding

N C anderson D R. Bacon

J E Carpenter

E Parks J Cook

Isaac Seaman Austin Phelps

U Kelsey Roland Root

Lorenzo. Wylie H. W. Harsall

N. B. Barrows D M Hones

J^[?] W. Whitney The Shede Esq

Alonzo Shumway I J Graves

J. S. Cushing D. D. Field

E L Stanley

C. Y. Benismaid H. L. Stanley.

W. G. Ely

C Selfridge Sam^l [?]

Samuel G Clark

H A Hascall

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G S Barrows [?]. L. Selden

G. N. Platt. F A Marsh

Donald C. M^cLaren. Samuel Phelps

Merancy Kelsey Abner Hull Jr.

A. H. Smith J. H. Stanley

Mons Barrett

Henry Ives J. W. [?]

Chauncey M Smith Russel Dugnid

Wm Martin H C Harvey

H S Rider D. C. Simonds

S. M. Geannis. [?] B

H [?] [nead?] Simon Pierson

J. O. Patterson W^m Bishop

James Cook Henry Stanley

Daniel Cooley

Rober^t Colman C. C. Taylor

L. O. Coman Dan. M. Arenfield

Elijah Gray Jr

Elijah Platt

George Platt

F. E. [?]

James Stage

C H[?]

Perry Shumway

Azim Richmond

Saml C Kelsey

G. W. Goodell

C F Harris

Alexander M^cPherson, Jun

Elizur B Hinsdale

A. W. Carpenter

T D Lake

W. Whitcher

G. W. Annin

A. T. Price

H. N. Stanley

H. B. Ewell

A Bangs

Ira Hewes

John. L. Cook.

R. P. Burgess

J. R. Olmsted

Charles Bartow

A A Schenck

W Leoben

J. E. Buttefield

S. H. Parmelee

O. P. Champlin

W H Huggins

Smith Kellogg

S. French

Wm. Parks

George L. Matthew

R. E. Howe

E. A. Morehouse

J. P. P. Lathrop

Charles Crocker

Thomas B. Tufts

A. Brewster

W B [?]

LeRoy

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Petition of T. R. chipman ^& 150 others^ of Leroy N.Y. praying for reduction of Postage and abolition of of franking privilege.

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February 24 1849. Referred to the Committee on the Post office and Post Roads

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H. Putnam