To the Honourable [the] Senate and House of Representatives of the United States;
We the undersigned, inhabitants of the State of Wisconsin, Respectfully petition your
Honourable Body’s to pass an Act establishing a Route for A weekly mail from Geneva
at the east end of Geneva Lake in the county of Walworth to Beloit in the County
of Rock, by way of Benedicts in the town of Linn South side of Geneva Lake; Douglass’
Corners in the town of Walworth, South Grove in the town of Sharon; Agry’s in the
County of Rock thence to Beloit. The Road from Geneva to Beloit by way of the points
named, being nearly a strait line as the Accompanying draft will showAnd for which your petitioners will ever pray.
| William B Traver | Seymour N Hatch |
| Isaac Searl | |
| Joseph Weise | W, H, Lewis |
| P T [K?] | H. Ferguson P. M. Geneva |
| Robert Smith | I J. Dewey |
| J. I. Hale | [?]. A. Munden |
| Willi B Hale | Harrison [Pirek?] |
| Peter [Wortser?] | |
| J. C. [Fore?] | V Wright |
| Lewis Curtis | |
| Men Merriam | Orland Eddy |
| J. L Bartholomew | |
| John Barlow | Henry S Fox |
| M Budy | Chas S Watkins |
| Borky Mulroy | Henry Stoneall |
| M M Brand | A D Colton |
| T. C. Smith | J M Nelson |
| Ethan Burdick | F. Winters |
| J. R. [Laurence?] | J A Benedict |
Handwritten Document Signed, 1 page(s), Box 232, RG 233: Library of Congress Collection: Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, 30th Congress, 1847-1849, Library of Congress Collection