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1790-1799

"9 2 0 6 0019 (General-Post-Office, September 22, 1792)

To prevent the Loss of entire Notes or Drafts payable to Bearer in Letters put into any Post-Office or Receiving
House, the Postmaster-General repeat the Recommendation so often inserted in the London Gazettes, and circulated by
Hand-Bills throughout the Kingdom; namely, To cut all such Notes or Drafts in half in the following Form, to send them at
two different Times, and to wait for the Return of the Post till the Receipt of one Half is acknowledged before the other is
sent.
And, when any Cash, in Gold or Silver, or when any Rings, or Lockets, &c. are sent per Post from London, particular
Care should be taken to deliver the same to the Clerk at the Window, or to the Clerk of the Money-Book, at the General
Post-Office; and, when any such Letter is to be sent from a Country Post-Office it should be delivered into the Hands of the
Postmaster.
ANTHONY TODD, Secretary.

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N° ro8 N° 108

i Prnmifo to p:iy to Joh..-~ Doe, - ... - - - or Bt;trer, on

Demand the Sum of

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\ London, the 9th o~y of February, Ii82.
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£~tn \ For the Governor and Comp~ny
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\ of the D~mk of Engbml.
Entd. Thomas Styles. \
Richard Ree.

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N. B. The Note is to be cut exactly where it is marked with a black Line, first writing the Date and Year at one End
of the Note, and the Number at the other End, by which Means each Part will contain a sufficient Specification of the
Whole.
This Specimen will be put up at every Post-Office in the Kingdom.

·· 9 2 0 7 0020 (General Post-Office, September 24, 1792)

To all Postmasters.

I Have the Commands of the Postmaster General, to desire you to copy the Directions of all Letters containing Cash
in Gold or Silver, Rings, or Lockets, &c. that may be brought to your Office, on the Front of your Letter Bill, and tye them
up with it, that they may be observed when the Bag is opened, and the same Mode will be attended to with all Letters of a
like Description which may be put into this Office for your District.
You will observe by the enclosed, that the Public are· recommended to deliver these Letters into the Hands of the
Postmaster, by way of giving additional Security to their Conveyance, you must therefore discontinue the Practice of
dissuading Persons from sending Cash by the Post, as you were directed to do by printed Letter of the 27th of February,
1779.
I am, Your obedient humble Servant,
FRANCIS FREELING.

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