The undersigned, Deputy Post Masters and others, respectfully represent to your Honorable Body, that previous to the passage of the New Post Office Law of March 3, 1847, regulating the commissions to be allowed to Deputy Post Masters on letter postage, &c., all Deputy Post Masters, at whose offices the mail was to arrive regularly between the hours of nine o’clock, at night, and five in the morning, were allowed to charge fifty per cent on not exceeding one hundred dollars, collected in one quarter, instead of the usual rate of thirty—provided the account current was accompanied by a certificate signed by the Deputy Post Master, setting forth the above fact in legal form. In the recent law, no more commission is allowed Deputy Post Masters for receiving and despatching night mails, than to those at whose offices the mail arrives in the day time; although attended with very much more trouble and expense, in lights, fuel, extra clerk hire, &c. your petitioners suppose that the new law relative to commissions of Deputy Post Masters, is intended to increase said commissions, as a compensation to said officers for the diminished receipts of postage, to which they are subjected in consequence of the recent reduction of the rates of letter postage. But so far from increasing the commissions or pay of the class above refered to, (viz. Deputy Post Masters who receive night mails), it decreases their commissions from ten to seventeen per cent. Believing as we do, that this omission is the result of an oversight, and that the commissions allowed Post Masters are intended to be equal, and to allow a just and sufficient compensation to such officers for their services, we, your petitioners would respectfully and earnestly ask your Honorable Body, to allow Deputy Post Masters at whose offices the mail arrives regularly between the hours of nine o’clock, at night, and five in the morning, the original commission of fifty per cent on not exceeding one hundred dollars, collected in one quarter, and also to allow them the difference in the present commissions, and fifty per cent for the time during which the new law has been in force, (viz. since March 12th, 1847), provided that certificates in legal form, as formerly required from said Deputy Post Masters, be forwarded to the Post Office Department. And, as in duty bound, your Petitioners would ever pray.