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1760-1769

Postmaster shall pay to such Masters or other Persons, One Penny per Letter for every Letter delivered by them; They
signing a Certificate of the Number of Letters, by what Ship brought, and of the Time when delivered, and giving a Receipt
for the Number of Pence they receive of such Deputy: Which Certificate and Receipt, together with the Letters so
delivered, shall by the next Post be return'd to the Postmaster-General, and the Deputy shall have Credit for the Money
paid by him on that Account.
Egmont & Robert Hampden, Postmaster General.

-- 6.2 11 NEWS (General Post-Office, December 11, 1762)

Publick Notice is hereby given, That the Mail for Flanders will, for the Future, be sent by the Way of Ostend, instead
of Flushing, every Tuesday and Friday, as formerly.
ANTHONY TODD, Secretary.

- 6 2 12 NEWS (General Post-Office, December 14, 1762)

The Correspondence being now open between Dover and Calais, and between Dover and Ostend; the Mails for
France will continue to be dispatched from this Office every Monday and Thursday; and for Flanders every Tuesday and
Friday, as formerly: And no Passports, for the Future, will be required of Persons either going or coming, in any of His
Majesty's Packet Boats whatsoever.
ANTHONY TODD, Secretary.

-- 6301 NEWS (General Post-Office, February 19, 1763)

His Majesty's Post-Master-General having been pleased to order the Bye-night Mails from London, which now stop at
Worcester, to be continued from thence to Ledbury and Hereford, Public Notice is hereby given, That the First Bye-night-
mail for Ledbury and Hereford, will be forwarded from this Office, on Monday the 28th Instant; and the First additional
Mail to London, will be forwarded from those Places, through Worcester, on Tuesday the lst of March next.
By this new Communication, the Towns of Hereford and Ledbury will have a regular correspondence with London Six
Times a Week; their Correspondence with Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, great Part of Oxfordshire, Warwickshire,
Staffordshire, Shropshire, Cheshire, Nolth Wales, Lancashire, great Part of Westmoreland, Somersetshire, Part of Wiltshire,
Dorsetshire, and all Parts of Devonshire and Cornwall, will be accelerated: The Correspondence of the Counties of Rad.nor,
Brecknock, Cannanhen, and Pembroke, with Worcestershire, Staffordshire, great Part of Oxfordshire and Warwickshire,
Cheshire, Lancashire, and Part of Westmoreland, will be also improved.
And whereas many Letters are illegally conveyed by Carriers, Stage Coachmen, Boatmen, Dispersers of Country
News-Papers, and others: Notice is hereby given, That all Persons, collecting, conveying, or delivering Letters, without legal
Authority, will be prosecuted with the utmost Severity. The Penalty is Five Pounds for every Letter collected or delivered
illegally, and One Hundred Pounds for every Week such Practice is continued.
ANTH. TODD, Secretary.

- 6 3 0 2 NEWS (General Post-Office, February 19, 1763)

PUBLIC Notice is hereby given to the Deputy Post-Masters of Great Britain and Ireland, and to all Persons whom it
may concern, That a Mail will be despatched from this Office on Saturday the 5th of March next, with Letters for
Barbadoes, Antigua, Montse"at, Nevis, St. Christopher', and Jamaica, by the Princess Augusta, Capt. Watson.
This Packet-boat being the last intended to sail for his Majesty's Islands in the West-Indies, all Persons, afterwards
corresponding with the said Islands, are, as formerly, to pay only the full Inland Passage, from whence their Letters may be
sent to London, and one Penny more, being the Money that must be paid for putting them on Ship-board.
Letters will also be forwarded, by the said Packet-boat, to Marlinico and Guadaloupe, for the last Time.
This is likewise to give NOTICE,

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