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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 Hadley, Mass. 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.
John Woodbridge Hadley Mass
Mary Ann Woodbridge HadleyDo Hadley
R. M. Woodbridge DDo Elihu White Mass
E. O. Woodbridge. DDo. S. M. Hayward
James B Porter D" W. H. Hayward
Susan P. Porter Do L. A. Hayward
E C Porter Do S. W. Hayward
James P Dickinson Do R. S. Hayward
Jonas Beaman Do E. C. Hayward
Oliver E. Bonney
E. E. Hayward Do
Sophia Goodhue Do J [M?] Porter
H S. Dickinson Do
F C. Dickinson do P. A. Stanwood
Sylvanus Dickinson do
Moses Porter do Asa G Fiske
E. Porter do B Coolidge
John S. Bell do Mary G Curtis
John Newton do Lois E. P. Curtis
Hiram Thayer do
S L Smith do Susan Gaylord
J W Curtis
John Shipman do Mary A Porter
Mary A Hooker
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Sarah W [Cooke?] [Charles?] [Wheeler?]
Dudley Smith Edward R Gaylord.
Benjamin Hooker Albert D Newton
Mrs George Vinton George N Jones
Charlotte [A?] Vinton [?]
Samuel Daugherty
Laura M Giles Daniel Cook
Mary C Vinton J. E. Porter
Sarah Ann Vinton L. C. Porter
George Hodge
George Guilford Henry Smith
Mary D Guilford Betsey Shipman
W. W. Kellogg Catherine Kavanagh
Josephine M. Park Esek Baker
Barnard Burrows [Blanard?] Baker
Adeline C Hodge
Grace Montague Catherine C Hodge
S W Montague Harriette M Hodge
B. A. Bell
Eliza A Hodge
J. E. Bell
Samuel R Bell Sarah G Hodge
William A Bell Susan A Hodge
John H. Jones Jane M Hodge
H. W. Jones
Samuel Hodge
Almira Jones
Sarah L. Jones. [Julia?] A Hodge
John E. Jones. S N Cobb
Polly Reynolds.
Sophia Reynolds Nancy Dunakin
Eliza Reynolds. Lorissa Pease
Horace Vanhorn Lucretia Johnson
Franklin Munn Bethia Shipman
Alfred Vanhorn Elisabeth Cook
Francis Nash. Henry Shipman
Eber Munn [Fredlin?] Shipman
Jeremiah F. Dickinson David Peirce 2d
James Tyrrell Elmer Stockwell
Saml Seymour Jr
Edwin Smith
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Petition of John Woodbridge & others of Hadley Mass, for Cheap Postage
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March 3, 1849
Referred to the Committee on the Post office & Post Roads
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Geo. Ashmun

Partially Printed Document Signed, 3 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,