The memorial of Edwin Porter of Va Respectfully represents

That your memorialist in 1834 was engaged in carrying the mail of the United States on various important routes of the union[.] That he was charged with money by the Post Office Department which he never received for his own benefit and which is still due him[.] That he was made to pay a draft of William D Stone amounting to $4500 against the conditions of the acceptance and the principles of Justice and Equity and that just a Major Barry was leaving the Post Office Department fines to the amount of $6.684 were charged up against him against the opinion of the Post Master General as shewn by his endorsement on the enclosure marked A

Your memorialist represents that for years he strove to get his account from the Post Office Department but could not until the spring of 42 and that now by it which is enclosed the Department admits after charging up against him all the matters in dispute between them that it owes him $2012.34 and this admitted balance cannot be paid him without the action of congress

Your memorialist further represents that Congress were appealed to in 1843 but made no provision for the payment of his claim or of the balance declared to be due him by the Department itself in its account enclosed and mark[ed?]

under these circumstances your memorialist presents his hard case again to the justice of congress and asks it to pass a bill for his relief

or

That congress would pass a joint Resolution referring this case to the attorney General of the United States for him to examine the same and make an award ^upon the principles of justice & [Equity?]^ to be paid out of the appropriation for “Mail transportation” for the year ending June 30^th 1849 and as in duty bound will ever pray