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5 Postages.
5th, Letters, sent by a Member, must, to entitle them to pass free,
be superscribed wholly in the hand-writing of that Member, and must
have endorsed on them the name of the Post Town from which the same
are intended to be sent, the day, month and year, when they are put into
the Post-Office, the day of the month to be in words at length, and the
Member must be within the said Post Town, or within twenty miles of it,
on the day, or the day before the day, on which such letters are put into
the Post-Office thereof.
6th, All the Letters which Members can send or receive free must be
to and from places within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland.
7th, Foreign and Ship Letters are therefore excluded from the privi-
lege. All franked letters put into the Twopenny Post, in London, are
liable to the Twopenny Post rates, and are also liable to the Penny Rate
when going into or coming from any of the Country Penny Posts.
8th, The Act of 54th Geo. III. Cap. 169, Sect. 17, enacts, that it
shall be lawful for every Member of either House of Parliament to re-
ceive by post any petition addressed to either House of Parliament, free
from the duty of postage, so as the same be sent in a cover open at the
sides, and that the same shall not exceed the weight of six ounces.
Nen-sjxipers, Printed Votes, and Proceedings in Parliament.
By the 42d of Geo. III. chap. 03, Members of both Houses of Par-
liament, and the Clerks of the two Houses, are authorised to send by the
post, within the United Kingdom, any printed votes or proceedings in
Parliament, free of postage, provided the same be sent without covers, or
in covers open at the sides, signed on the outside thereof by the hand of
any Member, or either of the said respective clerks; and it is also lawful
for the respective Members and clerks to authorise such printed votes or
proceedings to be sent by the post, in covers open at the sides, free of
postage, addressed to them at such places within the said United King-
dom as they shall have previously given notice of in writing to the Post-
master-General, either at London or Dublin.
Also certain clerks in the Offices of the Secretaries of State, London,
are authorised to send printed votes and parliamentary proceedings, in
covers open at the sides, signed on the outside by the said clerks in the
manner they have been accustomed to do.
By the 42d Geo. III. chap. 63, and 6th Geo. IV. chap. 68, printed
newspapers may be sent by the post within the United Kingdom, free of
postage, provided they be sent without covers, or in covers open at the
sides.
All votes, parliamentary proceedings, and newspapers, sent otherwise
than under the above regulations, are chargeable with the full duty of
postage by any Officer or Postmaster who detects the irregularity.
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