collect the requisite Indian Postages, and to make up such Mails Should not the Indian Authorities have formed them.
In any Notification granting such authority I beg to suggest that it would be advisable to stipulate that all letters to be forwarded by that route, should be stamped That they should bear the postage affixed to them according to the Post Office Regulations published on the 9th ultimo, and, in addition, I hope 1 anna and 2 annas to be charged by weight according to the English scale. And that no letter should exceed 5 ounces That the postages on all the letters to be sent by that route should be prepaid excepting those the Indian postage should be paid on, that is, the postages of letters for delivery in Great Britain and Ireland.
And upon those the Indian postage should be paid that Soldiers' and Seamens' and all other letters excepting those on Her Majesty's service £98 should be equally liable to the postage.
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