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Jamaica Revenues: The Moore Town Covers, 1901.

Direct embossed vermilion 1d revenue stamps, code A, exist on cover cancelled by post office
cancels of Moore Town, 1901. Blue and white paper envelopes exist.
Higgins and Gage list these as Official postal stationery because “These embossed envelopes were
authorized for postal use by the Collector of Revenue in Moorestown, Jamaica to send out tax bills.”
No source for this information is given.
The Collector of Revenue had no authority to authorise postal use, and there is no postal marking on
any of the envelopes except the Moore Town cancellation. The envelope watermarks are
commercial, not official stock. Moreover, the covers are all cancelled on a single date, 31 January
1901, (though a piece exists dated 4 days later) and all addressed to the same addressee, Dr
Nicholas at Port Antonio. If Higgins and Gage are correct, he was surely the most heavily taxed
doctor in Jamaica.