RESOLUTION
Relative to an amendment of the Postage Laws.
Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the Senators and Representatives from this State, in Congress, be and they are hereby requested to use their influence to procure such modification of the postage law as will permit newspapers to pass in the mail free of postage fifty miles from the office of publication.
Resolved, That the Governor be requested to transmit a copy of the above resolution to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress.
JOSEPH S. HAWKINS,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
CHARLES B. GODDARD,
Speaker of the Senate.
RESOLUTION
Relative to a change of the rates of postage upon transient papers.
Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That our Senators and Representatives in Congress be requested to use their influence to procure an amendment to the laws regulating the rates of postage, so as to reduce the postage on transient papers, and to permit them to be carried in the mails without a prepayment of postage.
JOSEPH S. HAWKINS,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
CHARLES B. GODDARD,
Speaker of the Senate.

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Postage on Newspapers
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Resolutions of the legislature of the State of Ohio relative to the Postage laws.
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May 3, 1848
Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads and ordered to be printed.
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Printed Document, 2 page(s), Volume Volume 58, RG 233, Entry 370: Thirtieth Congress, 1847-1849, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Originals of Printed House Miscellaneous Documents, 1847-1849, NAB,