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Justice, such Discoverer will, upon Conviction of the Party, be entitled to the same Reward, and will also receive His
Majesty's most gracious Pardon.
ANTHONY TODD, Sec.

- 9 5 0 1 NEWS (General Post-Office, January 24, 1795)

IN Consequence of the present Interruption of the Correspondence between this Country and Holland, a
Communication will be immediately opened by His Majesty's Packet-Boats between Yarmouth and the Elbe, and the Mails
will be made up and dispatched from this Office every Tuesday and Friday Night as usual; and as the Letters to and from
all Parts of Europe, except Spain and Portugal, will now be sent through this Channel, it is necessary to inform the Public,
that from this Time, the Postage of all Letters to Holland or Flanders, must be paid before-hand, the same as to
Hamburgh, to all Parts of Germany, and the North of Europe, at the Rate of One Shilling each single Letter, Two Shillings
double, Tree Shillings treble, and Four Shillings the Ounce, without which they cannot be forwarded; and the same Rates
are to be paid for all Letters from those Countries.
Besides the foregoing Rates of Foreign Postage, it will be necessary, as usual, to pay at the Office in Great Britain or
Ireland, where such Letters are put in, the full Port to London.
ANTH. TODD, Sec.

-- 9 5 0 2 NEWS (General Post Office, February 7, 1795)

NOTICE is hereby given, That in consequence of an Application from several Merchants of London, the Mails of
Letters made up at this Office for Holland, on the 13th, 16th, and 20th of January last, are detained by Warrant of one of
His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, until His Majesty's further Orders; and that an Application will be immediately
made to Parliament, to authorize the Postmaster General to return such of the said Letters as shall be applied for by the
Writers thereof, or by any Persons duly authorised to make such Application on their behalf. As soon as the Mode of such
Application shall be settled by Act of Parliament, due Notice will be given thereof from this Office.
ANTHONY TODD, Secretary.

-- 9 5 0 3 NEWS (General Post-Office, May 6, 1795)

By an Act passed in the present Session of Parliament, intituled, '!An Act for further regulating the sending and receiving
Letters, free from the Duty of Postage, for allowing Non-commissioned Officers, Seamen, and Private Men, in the Navy and
Anny, whilst on Service, to send and receive Letters, at a low Rate of Postage, and for pennitting pattern and Samples of
Goods, to be transmitted by the Post, at an easier Rate than is now allowed by Law."
No Letter or Packet whatsoever, sent by the Post within Great Britain, directed by or to any Member of either House
of Parliament of Great Britain, shall from and after the Sth Instant, be exempted from the Duty of Postage, if such Letter
or Packet shall exceed one ounce in weight.
No Letter or Packet directed by any such Member, shall be exempted from Postage, unless the Member whose name
shall be indorsed thereon, shall actually be in the Post-Town, into the Post Office of which every such Letter or Packet shall
be put, or within the limits of the delivery of Letters for such Post Town, or within 20 miles of such Post Town, on the day,
or on the day before the day on which such Letter or Packet shall be put into the Post-Office.
No such Member shall be entitled or allowed to send by the Post, free from Postage, superscribed or directed by him,
more than 10 Letters in any one day, nor shall be entitled or allowed to receive by the Post, free from Postage, more than
15 Letters directed to him in any one day.
Provided that whenever the number of Letters or Packets, not weighing more than one ounce each, sent or received by
any such Member in any one day, shall exceed the number exempted by the said Act from Postage, and the rate of Postage
upon any of them shall differ, then such of the said Letters or Packets as would be chargeable with a higher rate of Postage
than the remainder, shall be included in the number so exempted, in preference to any which would be chargeable with a
lower rate of Postage, and the remainder shall be chargeable with the several rates of Postage respectively to which such
Letters would now by law be chargeable, if sent or received by any persons not entitled to send or receive Letters or
Packets free from Postage.

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