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to Mr Scales on the 29th of. April.
1. Copy of a Government Notification (printed) referred to in N.3. Your Lordship will
observe in Enclosure No 2, of Despatch that Mr. Scales' attention was
ло
1027 called to the necessity for providing for the transmission of letters to the United Kingdom and to other Places beyond India, via the Ports of Calcutta and Madras; and that in Enclosure No 3, of the Jame Despatch, Mr Scales stated, that he had been
given that arrangements had bron made by His Lordship the Post Master "General to meet this object. -
Shat
myself given Mr. Scales impresion at an
thes erroneous
to understand,
interview
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interview on the 5th Instant, from having casually perused Notifications published in the Calcutta Government- "Gazette, which I thought referred.
to those arrangements; and the matter remained in this state until
a
Nossel (the Clipper "Red Rover") was about to depart for Calcutta, which led to a number of letters
tendered with the
with the Indian
being tendered
Postage chargeable
on
them at the
M.
Post Office, and Mr Scales - acting
under the erroneous.
impression he had imbibed from me _ destining to receive the Portage.
A reference
by
some
was made to
of the parties wishing
the Indian
to post, and prepay Postage on, their letters; and on a suore careful perusal of the
Calcutta