Building - pending the pleasure of Her Majesty's Government, and further to authorize as a special temporary measure the continuance of the present Establishment of the Post Office (with the exception of the 2nd Clerk, M. Lane) during this Quarter, at the expiration of which period other arrangements must be made.
His Excellency desires me to state that he has observed that your Instructions do not provide for the constantly recurring despatch of Mails to the United Kingdom and other Places beyond India by the Ports of Calcutta and Madras, and it will be necessary for you to consider this question and propose a plan for meeting it to prevent vast public and private inconvenience.
All Notifications that you may require to publish connected with the Post Office Department, for general information and guidance; you are requested to draw up, sign, and enclose to me, when steps will be taken to have them inserted in the Government Gazette.
M. Spring at present in charge of the Post Office will be instructed to render you every assistance and to make you fully acquainted with the local Regulations that have from time to time been laid down for his guidance, in order that you may point out what alterations they will require to assimilate with your Instructions.
I have been...
(Signed) Richard Worman.
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