Towns > Glasgow > 1828-1912 - Post-Office annual Glasgow directory > 1838-1839

Postages.
The Postmaster- General is empowered at any time hereafter, at his
discretion, to register Letters and Packets sent by the Post, on payment
of certain additional rates ; but such registration will not render the Post-
master- General, or the Post- Office Revenue, liable for the loss of any such
Letters, or the contents thereof.
The above Enactments will not take effect until after the necessary
arrangements have been made with the Post-Offices of Foreign countries,
of which due notice will be given to the Public.
The following Enactments come into immediate operation.
Letters by Private Ships.
The present rates of Ship Letter Postage from the United Kingdom
for Places beyond the Seas are i-epealed, and in lieu thereof. Letters posted
at the Port from which the Ship shall sail, are made liable to the reduced
rate of eightpence, single ; if posted at any other part of the United
Kingdom, one shilling, single; and so on in proportion, to be paid at
the time of posting the same.
Letters may be sent from any Port, by any Ship or Vessel, to any
place out of the United Kingdom, otherwise than through the Post-Office,
except by Vessels carrying Mails ; but this provision does not extend to
the Inland conveyance of Letters otherwise than by Post, or to any
collection of Letters contrary to the Laws now in force.
Letters may be sent through the Post-Office by private Ship or Vessel,
fi'om any Port or Place in Great Britain or Ireland to any other Port
or Place within the same, or either of them, on payment of a rate of
Postage of eightpence, single, in addition to any rates for Inland convey-
ance. Persons desirous of availing themselves of this mode of conveyance,
must specify the same on the direction of their Letters, or on delivering
them to the Postmaster. The payment of Postage at the time is optional
with the sender.
Ship Letters — Ireland.
The Ship Letter Laws in Great Britain and Ireland are assimilated ;
and the provisions of the former Acts of Parliament for regulating the
conveyance of Letters to and from the East Indies, at a reduced rate of
Postage, are extended to Ireland.
Letters to and from Great Britain and Ireland by Private Ships,
are liable to a Sea Postage of eightpence, over and above any Inland
rate, the previous payment of which is optional with the sender.
There is no alteration in the Law with respect to Letters brought into
Great Britain by Private Ships, nor those sent to the Cape op Goon
Hope, the East Indies, and New South Wales.
Newspapers.
The rate of Postage of threepence on each Newspaper brought by
Private Ships into the United Kingdom from Her Majesty's Colonies
and Possessions beyond Seas is repealed.
Newspapers, to and from Her Majesty's Colonies and Posessions by
Private Ships, are liable to a rate of Postage of one penny each. The
Postage on those from the United Kingdom is to be paid at the time of
putting them into the Post.
Newspapers, to and from Her Majesty's Colonies and Possessions be-
yond Seas by Packet, are not liable to any Postage. There is no altera-
tion in the Postage upon Newspapers to the Cape of Good Hope, the
East Indies, and New South Wales.