Context

Context of In Senate of the United States. December 20, 1837. Read, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Knight, from the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, made the following report: (To accompany Senate Bill No. 71.) The petitioners state that, in the fall of the year 1832, the Postmaster General advertised for proposals to carry the mail four years by steamboats and packets, six times a week, from Wood's Hole to Nantucket...