To the Honble Gideon Granger Postmaster General of the United States.

The memorial of the subscribers, citizens of the county of Mason, respectfully sheweth That your memorialsts are informed that application has been or will be made to you, for a removal of the distributing post office from the town of Washington in this county to Maysville about four miles distant from Washington and in the same county, and as your memorialists conceive that such a measure would be impolitic and from local considerations unjustifiable. They beg leave to observe, First, that they believe no good reason can be urged for such a removal, and that the one principally relied on, to wit that what few letters destined for Maysville have to come to Washington for distribution, can have but little weight, when it is recollected that neither the population, commerce, or residence of public functionaries at Maysville induces such a correspondence with the inhabitants of the place as to create more than an extremely partial evil, if the delay of a few hours in the rect. of letters at that place can at all be called an evil. On the other hand Washington is the seat of Justice & contains the public buildings of the County, is the residence of the greater part of the officers of the County, contains perhaps three times the population of Maysville and carries on an extensive trade with the several cities of the Atlantic States from which it is well known much correspondence results. In addition to which the several post roads from Frankfort, Lexington, Augusta &c centre at Washington which will always compell a partial distribution from that place and cause some considerable delay of the mails coming from the Eastward and we conceive that there could not perhaps possibly be a more judicious arrangement of the arrival & departure of the mails than the present between Chilicothe & Frankfort, which must necessarily be broken in by the proposed alteration: in this particular more real injury would be sustained than that complained of by the proposers of the removal.