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required by Law on the Order for the Money; and for this Recompence the Clerks of the Roads undertake to guarantee the
safe Conveyance of the Remittance.
EDMUND BARNES, I. H. CABANES, CHA. COLTSON,
WM.OGILVY, SAM. ARDRON, CHA. EVANS.

-9 21 0 NEWS (General Post-Office, November 3, 1792)

A Plan having been stongly recommended by the Governors and other Persons of Consideration residing in the
Leeward Islands, as well as by the West India Merchants and Planters residing in London, for the Improvement of their
Correspondence by employing Two Schooners to convey the Mails through those Islands, instead of One as at present, the
Post-Master General have consented to make a Trial of it for Six Months:
Notice is therefore hereby given, that when the Jamaica Packet, with the Mails from hence of the First Wednesday in
the Month, arrives at Barbadoes, One of the Schooners will proceed from thence, with the Leeward Island Mails as at
present, for St. Vincent's, Grenada, Dominica, Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis, and St. Kitt's, where she will leave the Mail for
Tortola to wait the Arrival of the Leeward Island Packet with the Mails of the Third Wednesday in the Month from
England.
When the Second, or Leeward Island Packet, arrives at Barbadoes, the other Schooner will take the Mails for
Dominica, Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis and St. Kitt's, and, after staying Forty-eight Hours for Answers at each Island
(excepting at Nevis and St. Kitt's) will return to Barbadoes, whilst the Packet will proceed to St. Vincent's and Grenada,
and, instead of calling at Dominica, Antigua and Montserrat, as at present, will go directly to Nevis and St. Kitt's, and from
thence to Tortola, and then return to Falmouth.
It is calculated that, by the Packet and Schooner each taking a different Course during the same Time till they meet at
Nevis, instead of the Packet performing the whole Voyage, will save Thirteen Days in every Voyage.
ANTH. TODD, Sec.

•• 9 2 1 1 0022 (Post-Office, Liverpool, December 5, 1792)

IN order to accelerate the dispatch of the London and Cross Road Mails, the public are hereby respectfully
acquainted, that no LETTERS will be received at this Office after Nine o'clock in the evening, without the payment of
Three-pence each letter, instead of One Penny, as heretofore; that at a quarter past Nine o'Clock, Six-pence each letter will
be required; and that at twenty minutes past Nine, no letters will be received on any account whatever.
C. SA VERLAND, Surveyor to the General Post-Office.

··9301 0024 (General Post Office, January 1, 1793)

Money-Letter Office.

To prevent the loss frequently sustained by the Public, of Letters containing Money put into the Post Office, the
Clerks of the Roads, in the General Post Office, by Permission of His Majesty's Postmaster General,
Give this Public Notice.
That a Clerk will attend Daily at their Office, in the General Post Office, from Nine in the Morning until Seven in the
Evening, who will receive from those Persons, who may chuse to avail themselves of this Mode of Conveyance, instead of
transmitting Money in Letters by the Post, any Sum of Money, not exceeding Five Guineas, and will give an Order, payable
at Sight, on the Deputy Post Master of the Town where the Remittance is required to be paid, if in England; if in Dublin,
on Mr. WILLIAM ARMIT, of the General Post Office, Dublin; and if in Edinburgh, on Mr. MARTIN MOWBRAY, of the
General Post Office, Edinburgh: The Deputy Post Masters in the Country, Mr. ARMIT and Mr. MOWBRAY, will, in like
Manner, receive any Money, and give an Order at Sight on-the Clerk of their respective Roads in London.
And the Deputy Post Master of each Post Town in England will receive any Sum of Money, 'not exceeding Five
Guineas, and give an Order on the Post Master of any other Town within England, where the remittance is required to be
paid.

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