Letter from the Post-Master General, Transmitting a List of Unproductive Post Roads for the Year 1817

by Return Jonathan Meigs, Jr.

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Washington: Printed by William A. Davis, 1817. Disbound. Quarto. 14 pages. A listing of 24 post-roads across various states that were deemed unproductive as of February 20th, 1817. The criteria were that the road had been established for more than two years and that it had not, within the preceding year, produced postal revenue of at least a third of the cost of transporting the mail upon it. Congress was

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