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An Abstract of the Act and forms of the Oath required to be taken, may be had at this Office.
ANTHONY TODD, Secretary.

-- 9 5 0 6 NEWS (General Post Office, June 10, 1795)

PERSONS desirous of undertaking the conveyance of His Majesty's Mails between Milford Haven and Waterford from
the 10th Day of October next, are requested to send their proposals to the Office of Francis Freeling, Esq. at the General
Post-Office, London, within one month from the date thereof.
The parties must contract to provide, furnish, support, maintain, and keep 5 Cutter-built Vessels, of the burthen of 80
tons at least, prime sailers, rigged and equipped in the completest manner, and navigated by 10 hands at the least, British or
Irish subjects, and to sail six times a week from Milford, and 6 times a week from Waterford.
The Contractor must take the risk of any losses that may arise from the dangers of the Seas on himself, and he will be
indem.nised from such as may be sustained in any engagement with an enemy, or by capture in time of war.
All advantages arising from the carriage of Passengers, &c. will belong exclusively to the Contractor, and ample
security will be required for the due performance of the Contract.
ANTHONY TODD, Secretary.

-- 9 5 0 7 NEWS (General Post Office, September U, 1795)

THE Act passed in the last 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 of January, 1795," being expired,
Notice is hereby given, that the Letters which have not been claimed and returned, will be forwarded according to
their directions, at the expiration of one Kalendar Month from this Day, unless they shall in the mean time be claimed by or
on behalf of the Persons to whom the Letters are addressed.
ANTHONY TODD, Secretary.

-- 9 6 0 1 0032 (General Post-Office, January 15, 1796)

IT having been reported to me, that great Inconvenience has arisen to the Conductors of the Money-Order Concern,
from the Inattention of many of the Deputies to the Instructions issued from that Office, I am commanded by their
Lordships the Postmaster-General to require the most particular Attention to those Directions hereafter, as the Plan is
sanctioned by the Postmaster-General, upon a Conviction of its Public Utility.
I am, Your humble Servant,
To all Postmasters. F. FREELING, Principal and Resident Surveyor.

-- 9 6 0 2 0006 (Chester Post-Office, January 20, 1796)

SIR,
THE Manchester and Warrington mails, for this city, were robbed yesterday evening, and some suspicion at present
rests on the under-described men. You are therefore requested to use every effort to apprehend them on suspicion, and to
enquire whether the horses descnbed, have been left by them in your neighbourhood.
One of the men is about eighteen or twenty years of age, five feet four or five inches high, slender made, short light-
coloured hair, long thin smooth face; wore a light-coloured ash coat, striped green Manchester waistcoat, boots and long-
necked spurs, round hat, had a drab-coloured top-coat buckled to the crupper of his saddle; rode a cropt dark-bay or brown
horse, about fifteen hands high, which had a whisk tail, a white roach down the face, rather lame behind, had a bandage
under the knee, to prevent the speedy cut on the off foot before.
The other man is about twenty-five or thirty years of age, five feet seven or eight inches high, stout made, black short
hair powdered, lately stumpt from a queue, pitted with the small-pox, and pimpled face; had on a black coat, and a kind of

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