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Between 2 and 3 in the Morning •••••••••••••••.•••••• from Bristol.
NEWBURY. About 3 in the Morning ••••••••••••••••••••.••.••.•.• from London.
Between 12 and 1 at Night ••••••••••••••••.•••••••••• from Bristol.
HUNGERFORD. Between 4 and 5 in the Morning •••••••••••••••.•••••• from London.
About 11 at Night ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••.•••••• from Bristol.
MARLBOROUGH. About 6 in the Morning .•••••.••.•••••••.•••••••••••• from London.
Between 9 and 10 at Night •••••••••••••••.••••••••••• from Bristol.
CHIPPENHAM. Between 8 and 9 in the Morning •••••••••••••••••••••• from London.
About 7 in the Evening ••••••••••••••••••••••.••••••• from Bristol.
BATH. Between 10 and 11 in the Morning •••••••••••••.••••.• from London.
Between 5 and 6 in the Afternoon ••••••••••••••••••••• from Bristol.
BRISTOL. About 12 at Noon ••••••••••••••••••••••••••.•••••••.• from London.
All Persons are therefore to take Notice, that the Letters put into any Receiving House in London before 6 in the
Evening, or before 7 at this Office, will be forwarded by this new Conveyance; all others, for the said Post Towns and their
Districts, put in afterwards, or given to the Bell-Men, must remain until the following Post, at the same Hour of 7 o'Clock.
Letters also for Colnbrooke, Windsor, Caine and Ramsbury, will be forwarded by this Conveyance every Day - and for
Devizes, Melksham, Trowbridge and Bradford, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays; - for Great
Bedwin and Pewsey, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays; - and for Henley, Nettlebed, Wallingford, Wells, Bridgewater,
Taunton, Wellington, Tiverton, Froom and Warminster, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. - Letters from all the
before-mentioned Post-Towns, and their District, will be sorted, and delivered as soon as possible after their Arrival in
London, and are not to wait for the general Delivery.
All Carriers, Coachmen, Higlers, News Carriers, and all other Persons, are liable to a Penalty of £5 for every Letter
which they shall receive, take up, order, dispatch, carry, or deliver illegally; and to £100 for every Week that an Offender
shall continue the Practice, one Half to the Informer: And that this Revenue may not be injured by unlawful Collections
and Conveyances, all Persons acting contrary to the Law therein will be proceeded against, and punished with the utmost
Severity.
ANTHONY TODD, Sec.

-- 8 4 0 6 0010 (General-Post-Office, August 21, 1784)

To all Postmasters.

I Am commanded by His Majesty's Postmaster-General to send for your Government, the inclosed Act, "For granting
to his Majesty, certain additional Rates of Postage for Conveyance of Letters and Packets by the Post within the Kingdom of
Great-Britain, and for farther preventing Frauds and Abuses in relation to the sending and receiving of Letters and Packets free
from Postage," with a printed Advertisement, and a Table of the Rates of Postage, as they will stand from and after the 31st
Instant, together with an alphabetical List of Post-Towns, and the principal Towns under them, with the Postage to each for
a Single Letter, to and from London.
By this Act, no Letter or Packet, with its Contents, is to be taxed at a higher Rate, for its Conveyance in Great-Britain,
than as a Treble Letter, unless it shall weigh ,an Ounce, when it is to be rated as four Single Letters; and every Quarter of
an Ounce above that Weight, is to be charge~ as a Single Letter.
By the Clause, for further preventing Frauds and Abuses in relation to the sending and receiving of Letters and
Packets free from Postage, you will observe, that no Letters or Packets sent by the Post, within Great-Britain, directed by
any Member of either House of Parliament, shall be exempted from the Duty of Postage, unless the whole Superscription
shall be of the Hand-writing of the Member, and shall have endorsed thereon, in the same Hand-writing, the Name of the
Member, the Post-Town from which the same is intended to be sent, and the Day, Month, and Year, when put into the Post-
Office, the Day of the Month to be in Words at length; and unless every such Letter and Packet, shall be put into the General,
or other Post-Office, or into a Receiving House, on the Day of the Date put upon such Letter;
And that no Letter or Packet, directed to any such Member, shall be exempted from the Duty of Postage, unless such
as shall, (during the Sitting of Parliament, or within Forty"Days before, or Forty Days after any Summons, or Prorogation
thereof,) be directed to any such Member at the Place where he shall actually be at the Time of the Delivery thereof, or at his
usual Place of Residence in London, or at the House, or Lobby of the House of Parliament, of which he is a Member;

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