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1760-1769

Man, and to all his Majesty's Subjects within the said Isle, as fully and effectually, in every respect, as if the said Isle, and his
Majesty's Subjects therein, had been expressly included in those several Acts, or in any of them.
HENRY POTIS, Secretary.

- 6 7 0 3 NEWS (General Post-Office, August 17, 1767)

WHERFAS Thomas Walsh, lately employed as a Letter Carrier in the General-Post-Office, Dublin, stands charged on
a violent Suspicion of having been guilty of fraudulent Practices in the said Office, on which Account he has since
absconded.
The said Thomas Walsh was born in Ireland, is about nineteen or twenty Years of Age, five Feet six Inches and a Half
high, smooth faced, a little freckled, his Mouth large, and his Person well made: He usually wore a brown Bob Wig, with his
Hair turned over it before; had on either a Claret-coloured Ratteen Coat, or Pompadour, with a Waistcoat of the same,
much faded, and frequently wore Buskins, laced before.
This is therefore to give Notice, that whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted,
the said Thomas Walsh, will be entitled to a Reward of Fifty Pounds, to be paid at this Office.
HENRY POTIS, Secretary.

-- 6801 NEWS (General-Post-Office, March 5, 1768)

HIS Majesty's Postmaster General thinks it necessary to give this Public Notice to all Members of Parliament and
others whom it may concern, that by an Act of the Fourth Year of his Majesty's Reign, no Letters or Packets shall be
exempted from paying the Duty of Postage, except to or from Members of Parliament during the Sitting of any Sessions of
Parliament, or within Forty Days before, or Forty after any Summons or Prorogation of the same. From the Dissolution,
therefore, of the present Parliament, all Letters and Packets are to be charged with the Duty of Postage, until Forty Days
before the Meeting of the new Parliament.
By the said Act, printed Votes, or Proceedings in Parliament, or printed News-Papers, being sent without Covers, or
in Covers open at the Sides, which shall be signed on the Outside thereof by the Hand of any Member of Parliament, in
such Manner as hath been heretofore practised, or which shall be directed to any Member of Parliament at any Place
whereof he shall have given Notice in Writing to the Postmaster-General, or to his Deputy at Edinburgh or Dublin,
respectively, shall be received Free of the Duty of Postage. As this Clause contains no Limitation in Point of Time, the
Peers and Lords of Parliament may contribute to send and receive Free all such printed Papers; and the Sixteen Peers of
Scotland, and every Member of the Honourable House of Commons of the new Parliament, from the Time they are
elected.
All Persons are desired to take Notice, that as the said Act authorizes certain Clerks in the Offices of the Secretaries
of State and in the Post-Office, under certain Restrictions, to Frank such printed Papers, the Postmaster General has been
pleased to give Directions to the Six Clerks of the Roads in this Office, to Frank all such printed Papers as any of the
present Sixteen Peers of Scotland, or of the Members of the present House of Commons, have given Notice of in Writing,
that no Interruption possibly to be avoided may happen to the News-Papers so intended to pass Free: And such Members
of the present Parliament, who now permit News-Papers to be addressed to them, are desired, upon being re-elected, to
renew the Notices.
ANTHONY TODD, Secretary.

- 6 8 0 2 NEWS (General Post-Office, March 28, 1768)

His Majesty's Postmaster General think it necessary to give this Public Notice to the Members of both Houses of
Parliament, that their Letters and Packets will, on Thursday the 31st Instant, begin to pass free as usual, being within Forty
Days before the Summons of the new Parliament.
ANTH. TODD, Secretary.

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