Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

Joint Resolution providing for a mail route from Tipton, Cedar County, via, Pioneer Grove and Marion to the County seat of Benton

Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa. That our Representatives in Congress be requested to use their influence in obtaining the establishment of a mail route from Tipton Cedar County, via, Pioneer Grove and Marion, to the County seat of Benton, and thereby extend mail facilities to that part of the State.

Resolved that the Secretary of State be requested to forward a copy of the foregoing Resolution to our representatives in Congress at as early a day as practicable.
J. B. Browne Speaker of the House of RepresentativesThomas Hughes President of Senate

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01/24/1848
Approved January 24, 1848.
Ansel Briggs

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02/05/1848Secretarys Office Iowa.
Iowa City Feb^y 5. 1848.
I Elisha Cutler Jr Secretary of the State of Iowa do hereby certify that the foregoing is a copy of the original Resolution now on file in this office

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed “The Great Seal of the State of Iowa.”

seal Elisha Cutler Jr

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Miscellaneous Documents
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Mail Route

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Resolution[s?] of the legislature of the State of Iowa relative to a Mail Route from Tipton in Cedar County, via Pioneer grove and Marion, to the County seat of Benton County.

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March 8, 1848
Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed.

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1380.

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Joint Resolution of the General Assembly of the state of Iowa, asking a mail Route from Tipton in Cedar Co via Pioneer Grove and Marion to the County seat of Benton Co.

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Com on P. O & P Roads

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Leffler