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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 ofrespectfully 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.
T. P Bingham Fond du Lac Wis.
C C. J. Goss dododo.
S. O. Patch dododo.
C Smith dododo
Wm H Yaw dododo
N Gardner dododo
H. R Colman do.
Joseph Byrnes DoDo
A L Valentine
H W Bruce [Eberado?]
James Watson Eldorado
Matthew P. Wright
James. R. Sears Fond du Lac
Lynd Grennell Do.
Peter Vandervort 2d fond du lac
D. B. Myers
Isaac Brown Fond du Lac
L. S. Chapman
Olondo Morley Do,,Do
W. A. Dewey "Do
O. W. [Allen?] ""
E. S. Disbrow
E. R. Beattey DoDo
Theo. Conkey DoDo
Geo Henning dodo.
Benjamin F Moore dodo
S. S. N. Fuller,
Wm F Foster DoDo
M C Eaton Do
O S Wright. Do
H [J?] Peck Do
M S Gibson Do
Jesse Wood
W B Elsworth Do
Charles S Stevens Do
Wm C. Dodge (Reduce to 5 cts only) Do
A. H. Noblee do
R B Gillett
T. Q. Gillett
K. Gillett
Geo. S Leatherbury
D. S. Harsha
H F Brinkley
G W Weikert Do
E Beehan (Reduce to 5 cents)
S. Ryan, Jr. (reduce to 5 cts) do
D Randall do
J Rappleye
Alex C Ruggles Fond du Lac
Luke Thompson Calumet
J F Slocum J F Slocum Fond du Lac
John H Werden Fond du Lac
Warren Morley Fond du Lac
Chas W Prescott
Chas Chandler
John, W, Carpenter Fond du Lac
D. W. Akin "
Washington Wilcox [...?]Fond du Lac
William H Card Tayshedah
C L Colman Fond du Lac
Henry Colman Do
Joseph F. Colman Do
Elihu Colman Do
Samuel Fowler Do
W. H. Butterfield Do
G H Tuttle do
N R Lee do
T. Conklin do
A H Carey do
Edwin A Brown "
W. S. Gibson Do
J. C. Hopper Do
[?] Jones Do
Wm. J. Wallace Do
J. [C?] Do
O. W. Manley Sheboygan
John. Fitzgerald Green Bay.
O Ben Tyler } Fond du Lac
Nathl Waterbury Free Fond du Lac
A. G Ruggles do
John. C. Truesdell do.
John Bannister Do
Jay F Hall Do
J H Fancher Do
C. A. Eldridge Fond du Lac
Harvey Buell Do
Lester. Bishop Do
Lyman Bishop Do
K. A. Darling Fond du Lac
Benjamin Davis
L L Sheldon
J. Hitchcock
J. D. Van Reck [Tayshedah?]
Joseph Place Fond Du Lac Wis
Clark Place DoDo
Marcenus Gurnee DoDo
Wm Van Vleck ""
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02/01/1849
Hon M. C DarlingDear Sir
This petition was forwarded to me by the society whose name it bears. I have circulated it, and above you have the result as the wishes of the citizens of Fond du Lac. With much respect
H. R. ColmanFond du Lac Feb 1st 1849
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Petition of 110 inhabitants of Fond du Lac in Wisconsin asking for the reduction of the rates of Letter Postage to a uniform system of two cents.
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February 16, 1849 Refered to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.
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Com on P Offices & Post Roads
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30th-80
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Darling

Printed Document Signed, 2 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