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the same, may be apprehended and brought to Justice, such Discoverer or Discoverers will, upon Conviction of the Party or
Parties, be intitled to the same Reward of Fifty Pounds.
ANTHONY TODD, Secretary.

-- 6 4 0 1 NEWS (General Post Office, January 7, 1764)

His Majesty's Post-master General having been pleased to establish Three Packet-Boats, at Falmouth, of 140 Tons
and 18 Hands each, for the Conveyance of Mails, Expresses and Passengers, to Barbadoes, Grenada, St. Christopher's,
Jamaica, Pensacola, St. Augustine, Savanna, Charles-Town, and back to Falmouth.
The first Mail will be dispatched from this Office on the 23d of February next; the second on the 12th of April; the
third on the 14th of June; and upon the Return of every Packet, Notice will be given, when the next Mail is to be dispatched
from hence, which is calculated for once in two Months, or thereabout.
The Postage of all Letters and Packets sent from London, must be paid upon their Delivery into this Office; the Inland
Postage to London, from all Places in Great Britain or Ireland, must also be paid, over and above the said Rates.
The Postage from London to His Majesty's Islands in the West-Indies, is at the Rate of ls. 6d. for a single Letter; to
the whole continent of America, including Florida, at ls. per Letter, the double, treble and Ounce Letters and Packets in
Proportion; the like Rates will be charged in Return, at this Office, upon the Letters and Packets coming from those Places
respectively.
All Letters for any of His Majesty's Islands in the West Indies, not herein mentioned, may be directed by the Way of
Barbadoes, Grenada, or St. Christopher's; and if not so directed they will be left at St. Christopher's, to be forwarded from
thence as Occasion may offer.
ANTH. TODD, Secretary.

-- 6 4 0 2 NEWS (General Post-Office, February 7, 1764)
WHEREAS the Post-Boy carrying the Mail from York to Malton, was, on Sunday Morning last, the 5th Instant, about
One o'Clock, attacked and robbed, upon Stockton Common, between York and Malton, about Half a Mile before he came
to the Lobster-House, by a single Highwayman on Horseback, who carried away the Horse on which the Post-Boy rode,
together with the said Mail, and all the Bags and Letters it contained, viz. the Bags and Letters sent from this Office on
Thursday the 2d Instant, for the Towns of Malton, Whitby, Scaiborough, Bridlington, and all Places within their respective
Deliveries; and also all the Bye Letters of that Post from different Parts of the Kingdom for the Towns abovementioned,
and Places in their Neighbourhood.
The Person who committed this Robbery, is described to be about five Feet three Inches high, broad-set, had on a
light-coloured Sourtout Coat, and rode upon a strong little Black Horse, of the Cart Kind, with a Bob Tail.
This is therefore to give Notice, That whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted,
the Person who committed this Robbery, shall be intitled to a Reward of FlFrY POUNDS, over and above the Reward given
by Act of Parliament for apprehending of Highwaymen; or, if any Person or Persons, whether Accomplice in the said
Robbery, or knowing thereof, shall make Discovery, whereby the Person, who committed the same, may be apprehended
and brought to Justice, such Discoverer or Discoverers will, upon Conviction of the Offender, be intitled to the same
Reward of FlFrY POUNDS, and will also have His Majesty's most gracious Pardon.
ANTH. TODD, Secretary.

- 6 4 0 3 NEWS (General Post-Office, April 20, 1764)

Public Notice is hereby given, That by an Act passed this last Sessions of Parliament, entitled, ''.An Act for preventing
Frauds and Abuses, in relation to the sending and receiving of Letters and Packets free from the Duty of Postage,"
It is Enacted, That from and after the First Day of May next, so long as the Revenue of the Post-Office shall continue
to make a Part of the Aggregate Fund, no Letters or Packets shall be exempted from Payment of Postage, except as follow:
All such as shall be sent from or to The KING's Most Excellent MAIBsTY.
All Letters and Packets, not exceeding the Weight of Two Ounces, sent from and to any Places within Great Britain or
Ireland during the Sitting of Parliament, or within Forty Days before or after any Summons or Prorogation, which shall be

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