To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress Assembled:
The undersigned, citizens of the county of Guernsey, and State of Ohio, respectfully ask your honorable body to re-enact so much of the Post Office law of 1845 as allows of the free transmission of newspapers by mail for the distance of thirty miles from the place where they are printed.
M Leach
Thomas Hyde E Dennyson
John Kemmett
Alexander Eagleson Nobert Dunning
George Swick
Samuel Hart Nathan Hutchinson
Saml Brown Edward [Milun?]
[?] G. Lofland
Elias Walraven
Jno [Ceavn?]
Stephen [Hertheso?]
Benjn Jackson Benjamin [?]
David C. Eakin Peter Smith
James Cunningham
Stuart Megill Thomas Sepage
Andrew Cunningham Ges B. Carlile
Elijah Thompson Le D. Karns
Thomas J [?]
John M Davis
George McLane
Solomon Sutton Stephen Jackson
John Hannum J D. Salmon
Jno Fox Joshua Davis
James A Duff
William Gibson W W Spears
D Martus John Batz
Wm Carlile Joseph Larrick
L. M. Larchet James McDonald
Robt [McCalt?]
Charles Scott
Daniel Nealley Edward Marland
Irenaeus Bay
Samuel J Day James McMichael
John Wharton

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Petition of Thomas Hyde & 52 others, Citizens of Gurnsey County Ohio, praying Congress to re-enact so much of the Post office law of 1845 as allows of the free transmission of News papers by mail for the distance of 30 miles from the place where they are printed
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N. Evans
1“hand-written “8” written over printed “5”.

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,