Page 201 - British Post Office Notices 1666 to 1799

1790-1799

As a Recompence to the several Persons employed in this Undertaking, it is proposed, that the Remitter of
Money shall pay Four-pence in the Pound, if the Order be issued from or payable at London, but if passing betwe
Country Towns, Six-pence is to be paid in like Manner for every Pound; and for this Recompence the Clerks of the Roa1.
undertake to guarantee the safe Conveyance of the Remittance.
EDMUND BARNES, ISAAC HENRY CABANES, CHARLES COLTSON,
WILLIAM 0GILVY, SAMUELARDRON, CHARLES EVANS.

-- 9 3 0 2 NEWS (General Post-Office, March 15, 1793)

Whereas Sarah Liddiard, the Wife of William Liddiard, lately a Letter Carrier in the Post-Office at Hungerford, w.
convicted, at the Assizes held in Salisbury the 9th Instant, of feloniously stealing Bills and Notes, which were taken out off
Letter at Hungerford; and at the same Assizes an Indictment was preferred and found against Mary Richardson, the w·
of Thomas Richardson, of Hungerford, Painter, Mother of the said Sarah Liddiard, as an Accessary after the Fact tot
said Felony so committed by her.
The said Mary Richardson was committed to Devizes Bridewell on the said Charge in November last, but escap
from thence on the 24th of December.
Whoever shall apprehend the said Mary Richardson, and secure her in any of His Majesty's Gaols of this Kingdo
shall be entitled to a Reward of FIFIY POUNDS, to be paid on her Conviction.
ANTHONY TODD, Sec.

-- 9 3 0 3 0026 (General-Post-Office, March 20, 1793)

To all Postmasters.
FROM the numerous inconveniencies that have hitherto arisen to Correspondence, by returning to London sue
Letters as were missent from this Office, and which might have been forwarded much more expeditiously through the Cro
· Post.
I am directed by the Postmaster-General to inform you, that from and after the 31st Instant, you are to forward
Letters of the above description, by the nearest Post Communication, either by sending them through the Cross Post, or i
equally expeditious, by returning them to this Office.
You will also observe, that the Bye and Cross Road Dead Letters and Covers are to be returned to the Accountant
that Office, at the same time you return the GENERAL OFFICE Dead letters and Covers to the POSTMASTER GENE
according to the Instructions herewith sent you, for the management of the Missent, Dead and Returned Letter:
overcharged Letters and Rebates, with a supply of the forms referred to, which will be sent you Quarterly, and to whic:
Their Lordships expect you to pay the strictest attention.
I am likewise directed by Their Lordships to send you herewith, an Advertisement, to be affixed either at the Windo
or some conspicuous Place, at the front of your Office, for the information of the Inhabitants resident in your Town, as we.
as of Travellers in general, that they may be informed thereby of the time limited for Letters remaining at your Offic
previous to their being sent hither to be opened.
I am, Your assured Friend,
ANTHONY TODD, Sec.

-- 9 3 0 4 0027 (General Post-Office, March 25, 1793)
SIR,

I HA VE the Honor of the Postmaster General's Commands, to direct you to be very attentive to your Arms, that the
are clean, well loaded, and hupg handy. _.
And further, that you do not suffer on any Account whatever, any Person except Superior Officers of this Departmen
of the Post~Office, to ride on your Mail Box, which Mail Box you must never leave unlocked, when the Mail is therein.

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