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Postages.
N. B The Bar shuts immediately after the arrival of the English
Mail, and continues so ahout an hour, during which time no paid letters
are taken in.
Letters are collected from the diiferent Receiving-houses, on Sundays
and Fast-days, at 9 p. m. only, except the Royal Exchange.
Paid Letters to go hy the Mails that are dispatched hefore 8 a. m. must
be put into the Of&ce, the previous evening, at 10 o'clock, at which time
the Office Bar shuts, and at 6 p. m. on Sunday.
SHIP LETTERS Letters arriving from abroad, except the East
Indies, &c. in Vessels, not Packet Boats, are liable to a sea postage of
Sd. if single, Is. 4)d. if double, and so on, over and above allinland rates.
INDIA. — Letters from the Cape of Good Hope, the Mauritius,
Ceylon, the East Indies, New South Wales, and Vandieman's
Land, are liable to a sea postage of 4d. each, if not exceeding three
ounces, and one shilling per ounce above that weight, in addition to the
inland rates.
Letters to the above parts, may be sent through the Post- Office, at a
sea postage of twopence each, under the weight of three ounces, and one
shilling per ounce, if above that weight, in addition to the inland rates,
to be paid at the time of putting the letters into the Post-Office.
Newspapers, Printed Prices Current, and Printed Papers, duly
stamped, may be conveyed to the above Parts, at one penny each, pro-
vided the same be open at the sides. Postageto be paid at the time they
are put into the Post-Office.
Owners, Charterers, and Consignees of Vessels resident in Gi'eat
Britain may receive their letters by their own vessels from Ceylon, the
Mauritius, the East Indies, the Cape, New South Wales, and Vandie-
man's Land, free from sea postage, provided that such letters shall not
collectively exceed twenty ounces; and the Owners and Consignees of
Goods on board of ships arriving from those places, may receive letters
free from sea postage, providing such letters shall not collectively exceed
six ounces. The letters of such Owners, &c. of Vessels and Goods,
to be superscribed and addressed in the manner the Act directs; and
any person, who shall falsely so superscribe any letters, will forfeit for
every such offence, ^10. All letters for Owners and Consignees,
within such limitation of weight and superscription, may be obtained
from the Master before he makes his delivery to the Post-Office,
By an Act, intituled " An Act to extend the acccomodation by the
Post to and from Foreign Parts, and for other purposes relating to the
Post-Office," it is enacted : —
After an agreement shall have been made with the Post- Office of any
Foreign Kingdom or State, it shall be optional with persons sending
letters by Post to such Foreign Kingdom, to pay both the British and
Foreign Postage thereof, at the time of sending the same, or to send the
same without payment of any part of the Postage, or to pay the British
Postage only, as heretofore.
Persons residing in such Foreign Kingdoms will have the same option
with regard to letters addressed to the United Kingdom.
No letters liable to any Foreign rates of Postage can be sent or
received free from the Duties of Postage, save and except the public
Dispatches of Her Majesty's Secretaries of State to and from the Britsh
Embassies and Legations abroad, being bona-fide on the Public Service.