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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 ofLyme, Connecticut,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.
Henry M. Waite Lyme Conn
Richd McCurdy Lyme Ct
Stephen J Lord. Do Do
Samuel Sanders Do
Daniel Chadwick jr Lyme ct.
C. B. Kirtland Lyme Ct
Wm Beckwith Lyme Ct
Sidney Kirtland Lyme Ct
Wm Rice Lyme Ct
J. S. Brockway Lyme Ct
Wm B Tooker Lyme Do
Lathrop E Slate Jr Do
Orlando Miner Do
Geo Havens Do
Manly Champion Do
Danl R. Noyes Lyme Ct
Timothy H Peck Do
Jos J Fuller Do
Stephen L Peck
Gad B Baldwin
Israel Matson Jr
Jonathan King Lyme
Lemuel Rowland Do
Elisha Hills Do
Do
John E Wait Do
Silas Bramble Do
Elisha M. Sawyer Do
Henry M. Parsons Do.
Eonch Enoch Lay Do
D. S. Brainerd Do
W. H. Blague Do
Wm G Rowland Do
Jno Noyes Do
Henry Perkins Do
Martin Griswold Do
Israel Havens
Horace Champion
Richd Maynard Do
Richard Noyes
Thoms Pilgrim
Charley. L. Peck
Oliver I. Lay.
Wm J Banning
Wm E. [Coult?]
S. F. Bartlett Lyme
Oliver Brown
Richd L Lord
Aaron S Brockway
Ely Cory
Charles M Havens
Dan W Mather
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G. M Chadwick
S. L. [Daulty?]
Baruch Johnson
D. Edgecombe Lyme Ct
Joshua Champion Lyme
John Moore Lyme
Stephen De Wolf Do
Albert S Royce
George H Chadwyck Lyme
Stephen L Sawyer Do
Edward Greenfield
James Lombard
Reuben Champion Jr
Chas Noyes
Enoch Noyes Jr
George W Lord
Wm. J. Beckwith
Jonathan Tinker
John Smith
Geo E Mather
Joshua W. Mather
John Gilbert
Timothy Johnson
[?]
[?] Beckwith
Chas Griswold
Daniel Noyes
John Lord
David Morley Lyme
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Petition of Hon. Henry M. Waite and eighty other citisens of the town of Lyme in the State of Connecticut praying for a uniform and reduced rate of postage and the abolition of the franking privilege.
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Post office & Po. Road
J. A. Rockwell

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,