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The several persons who by law are authorised, in right of their Offices and Employments to send and receive Letters
free from Postage, and their successors in such Offices and Employments, may during their continuance in such Offices and
Employments, send and receive Letters and Packets, free from Postage, as they now send and receive the same.
No printed Votes or Proceedings in Parliament, or printed Newspapers sent without covers, or in covers open at the
sides, which shall be signed on the ouside thereof by the hand of any Member of Parliament as heretofore practised, or
which shall be directed to any such Member at any place whereof he shall have given notice in writing to the Postmaster
General, or his Deputy, shall be charged with Postage.
No single Letter sent by the Post from any Non-commissioned Officer, Seaman, or Private employed in His Majesty's
Navy, Army, Militia, Fencible Regiments, Artillery or Marines, shall, whilst such Non-commissioned Officer, Seaman or
Private shall be employed on his Majesty's service, and not otherwise, be charged with an higher rate of Postage than the
sum of one Penny for the conveyance of each such Letter, such Postage to be paid at the time of putting the same into the
Post-Office of the town or place from whence such Letter is intended to be sent by the Post.
Provided, That no such Letter shall be exempted from Postage, unless there shall be written thereon, in the hand-
writing of and signed by the Commanding Officer for the time being of the ship or vessel, or of the corps, regiment, or
detachment, to which such non-commissioned Officer, Seaman, or Private shall belong, the name of such Commanding
Officer, and of the ship, vessel, corps, regiment, or detachment commanded by him.
No single Letter, directed to any such non-commissioned Officer, Seaman, or Private, upon his own private concerns,
only whilst such non-commissioned Officer, Seaman, or Private shall be employed on his Majesty's service, and not
otherwise, shall be charged with an higher rate of Postage than one penny for each such Letter, which penny shall be paid
at the time of the delivery thereof.
Provided, that no such Letter shall be exempted from the Rates of Postage chargeable upon Letters, unless any such
Letter shall be directed to such Non-commissioned Officer, Seaman, or Private, specifying the Ship, Vessel, Regiment,
Troop, Corps, Company, or Detachment to which he may belong: And provided also that it shall not be lawful for the
Deputy-Postmaster of the town or place to which such Letter shall be sent to be delivered, to deliver such Letter to ·any
person, except to the Non-commissioned Officer, Seaman, or Private to whom such Letter shall be directed, or to any
person appointed to receive the same by the Commanding Officer of the Ship, &c. to which the Non-commissioned Officer,
Seaman, or Private to whom such Letter shall be directed shall belong.
Every Packet or Cover containing therein, or having affixed thereto, one or more paper or papers, with patterns, or
one or more pattern or patterns of cloth, Silk, Stuff, or other Goods, or one or more Sample or Samples of any other sort of
thing, not exceeding together one ounce in Weight, shall be charged with no higher rate of Postage that as a single Letter,
so as every such Packet or Cover shall be sent open at the sides, and without any letter or writing in, upon, or with such
Packet or Cover, other than the name or names of the person or persons sending the same, and the place or places of his or
their abode, and the prices of the Articles contained therein, or affixed thereto, The Act may be seen at every Post Office.
ANTHONY TODD, Secretary.

-- 9 5 0 4 NEWS (General Post Office, May 20, 1795)

THERE will be daily attendance in the Foreign Department of this Office, from the hour of 11 in the forenoon, to the
hour of three in the afternoon, to put in execution an Act passed in the present Session of Parliament, intituled, "An Act to
enable his Majesty's Postmaster General to open and return certain letters contained in the Mails made up at the General
Post-Office, in London, for the United Provinces, on the 13th, 16th, and 20th Days of January, 1795, and now remaining in
the said General Post-Office."
An Abstract of the Act and forms of the Oath required to be taken, may be had at this Office.
ANTHONY TODD, Secretary.

-- 9 S 0 S NEWS (General Post-Office, June 8, 1795)

ATIENDANCE will for the future be given in the Foreign Department of this Office, every Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday, till further notice, from the hour of 11 in the forenoon to the hour of three in the afternoon, to put in execution an
Act passed in the present Session of Parliament, intituled, "An Act to enable his Majesty's Postmaster General to open and
return certain letters contained in the Mails made up at the General Post-Office, in London, for the United Provinces, on
the 13th, 16th, and 20th Days of January, 1795, and now remaining in the said General Post-Office."

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