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Fonse
Office
statement by
Mr Strachan
that hoe-shellings for
d parcel by
was demanded
the person, namely the Harbor Master's Assistant, who received the letter
bay from the "Old England" 1- forward to this office, is, as
1 fur de
and I have
Cau every
ascertain, erroneous
reason to think, that that functionary for well knows his duties to
have made such a demande.
Pattern packets
even when open at the ends, passed through
this or any other Branch of
the English or Sirdian Post Offices
are subject to postage, as Mr Strachan from his commercial transactions ought to have known.
Their being closed at both ends
of course cannot exempt them. In the Mails to
I returned d day
large parcels which
Marcel the party, to whom it was addressed, refused, on account of the Indian Postage, and de containing nothing but Newspapers. This parcel had been merely
through and out
of The Bombay
Post Office and was subjected
by that Office to a
postage of 70 Rupees. If packets, because
W are
of