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1780-1789

NORTH-AMERICA, which are forwarded from this Office on the first Wednesday of every Month, must absolutely be paid
quite to NEW-YORK, and also to HALIFAX, without which they must be opened, and returned to the Writers.
ANTHONY TODD, SecY.

-- 8 4 0 4 NEWS (General-Post-Office, July22, 1784)

BY an Act of the last, and also one of the present Session of Parliament, for establishing certain Regulations
concerning the Portage and Conveyance of Letters and Packets by the Post between Great Britain and Ireland, to take
Place on the lst of August next, all Letters and Packets are to be charged and paid for according to the present Rates of
Postage in Great Britain, and the Rates established by the Act of Parliament in Ireland, except to and from certain Persons
who, by Virtue of the respective Offices in Great Britain and Ireland, now send and receive Letters and Packets free from
the Duty of Postage, provided that all such Letters and Packets so sent shall relate to the Business of their respective
Offices, and that there shall be certified on the Outside of such Letters and Packets, under the Hand Writing of such
Officers respectively to be On His Majesty's Service, and that such Letters and Packets shall be sealed with the Seal of the
Office, or Officer sending the same. And in Case any such Officers shall receive under Cover to them any Letters or
Packets intended for or directed to other Persons, all such Officers are required to send the same to the General Post
Office in London, or Dublin, in order that such Letters and Packets may be charged with the Duty of Postage; it being the
true Intent and Meaning of this Act, that the Privilege of sending and receiving Letters and Packets by such Officers, shall
extend to such Letters and Packets only, as relate to the Business of their respective Offices.
It is also enacted, That all Persons may send printed Votes, Proceedings in Parliament, and printed News Papers to
and from Great Britain and Ireland, at the Rate of One Penny only for each printed Vote, Proceeding in Parliament, and
each printed News Paper, in Covers open at Both Ends, to be paid when they are put into any Post-Office in Great Britain;
but the Penny need not be paid before-hand upon Papers from Ireland, as~ it can be received on their Delivery in Great
Britain.
It is likewise enacted, That His Majesty's Postmaster-General may authorize certain Persons to send and receive
printed Votes, Proceedings in Parliament, and printed News Papers by the Post to and from Great Britain and Ireland, at
the Rate of One Penny only for each printed Vote, and Proceeding in Parliament, and each printed News Paper, over and
above the printed Price thereon.
All Persons therefore who wish to be supplied with News Papers for Ireland, or from Ireland for Great Britain, may
have them regularly sent, by applying by Letter, or otherwise, to the Clerk of the Chester Road, at the General Post-Office
in London, or to the Postmaster of any Town in Great Britain, where a News Paper is printed; or to the Secretary of the
General Post-Office in Dublin.
The Price of a Paper six Times a Week, at '3d. each, with ld. for the Postage, will be £5 4s. per Annum; an Evening
Paper three Times a Week, £212s. per Annum, and so in Proportion for the London Gazettes, other Papers, &c. And by an
Act passed in the last Session of the Parliament of Ireland, each British News Paper, &c. will in all Parts of Ireland be
delivered at the Rate of ld. Postage for each; all which, upon an Average, will be less than the Prices heretofore paid for
News Papers furnished by the Public Offices in Great Britain and Ireland.
ANTHONY TODD, Sec.

-- 8 4 0 5 NEWS (General Post-Office, July 24, 17134)
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HIS Majesty's Postmaster-General, being inclined to make an Experiment for the more expeditious Conveyance of the
Mails of Letters by Stage Coaches, Machines, &c. have been pleased to order, that a Trial shall be made upon the Road
between London and Bristol, to commence at each Place on Monday the 2d of August next, and that the Mails should be
made up at this Office every Evening (Sundays excepted) at 7 o'Clock, and at Bristol, in Return, at 3 in the Afternoon
(Saturdays excepted) to contain the Bags for the following Post Towns, and their Districts, viz.
HOUNSLOW. Between 9 and 10 at Night ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• from London.
Between 6 and 7 in the Morning •••••••.•••••••••••••• from Bristol.
MAIDENHEAD. Between 11 and 12 at Night .: •••••••••••••••••••••••• from London.
Between 4 and 5 in the Morning •••••••••••••.•.•••.•• from Bristol.
READING. About 1 in the Morning •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• from London.

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