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Bates of Postage, fyc. Appendix, 9?
2 GREENOCK and PORT-GLASGOW, (mail gig) 45 mi-
nutes past 4 o'clock afternoon.
3 GREENOCK and PORT-GLASGOW, (mail gig) 45 mi-
nutes past 8 o'clock evening — Starts at 4 o'clock morning.
DALRY, BEITH, LOCHWINNOCH, and JOHNSTONE,
(horse post) 45 minutes past 8 o'clock evening — Starts at 4
o'clock morning.
JOHNSTONE (foot post) afternoon, immediately after the arrival
of the London Mail.
1 RENFREW, (foot post) 20 minutes past 7 o'clock morning,
Summer, and 8 o'clock morning. Winter.
2 Renfrew, (foot post) 30 minutes past 5 o'clock afternoon.
Office open on Sunday, from 8 to 9 morning— 1, to half past 1 af-
ternoon—and 6 to 7 evening.
Mrs. Ker, post mistress— house 88 Moss street.
William Ker, assistant.
John Edmiston, letter-runner, house 7 New Sneddon,
Robert Wallace, letter-runner, house 4 Thread street.
Hates of Postage of Single Letters in Great Britain,
From any Post Office in England or Wales, to any place > s. d.
not exceeding 15 miles from such Office. ) 4
For any distance above 15 and not exceeding 20 miles 5
20 30 6
30 50 ...0 7
50 80 8
80 120 9
120 170 10
170 230 ... 11
230 300 1
And so on in proportion, the postage increasing progressively
one penny for a single letter for every like excess of distance of 100
miles.
All double, treble, and other letters and packets whatever (except
by the penny post) pay in proportion to the respective rates of single
letters ; but no letter or packet to and from places, within the King-
dom of Great Britain, together with the contents thereof, shall be
charged more than as a treble letter, unless the same shall weigh an
ounce, when it is to be rated as four single letters, and so in proportion
for every quarter of an xmnce above that weight, reckoning each
quarter as a single letter.
Zoehwinnoch-and Bishopton Penny Posts.