EXTRA.
Table of Steamer Postage leviable upon Letters arriving from, or addressed to any other place than the United Kingdom, via the Red Sea or the Persian Gulf.
A letter not exceeding 1½ Tola, is to be RE As. charged one rate of Postage. Ditto above 1½ Tola, and not exceeding 2½ Tolas, two rates. 1 Ditto above 2½ Tolas, and not exceeding 5 Tolas, four rate. 2 Ditto above 5 Tolas and not exceeding 7½ Tolas, six rates 3 and so in proportion, two additional rates of Postage being charged for every additional weight of 2½ Tolas, or for any fraction of that weight.Bombay, Gent. Post Office.
14th March 1842.
W. ESCOMBE,
Acig. Post Mr. Gent,
*N. B. 24 tulahs are equal to one ounce English, 16 annas make one Rupee, and one Rupee is equal to two Shillings English.
Table of Indian inland Postage from Calcutta and Madras to Bombay.
CALCUTTA MADRAS Single Letter not exceeding one Quarter of a Tola in weight. Double Letter exceeding one Quarter of a Tola, but not exceeding one Tola in weight. Single Postage (that is 7 Annas) to be added for every additional half Tola weight. Newspapers not exceeding 3 Tolas in weight. Rs. As P5 6 Rs. As P
3 7 Newspapers exceeding 3 Tolas but not exceeding 6 Tolas. 7 +3 Newspapers exceeding 6 Tolas but not exceeding 9 Tolas. 14 7 1 9 3 Single Postage (that is 3 Annas) to be added for every additional 3 Tolas. Single Letter not exceeding one Quarter of a Tola in weight. Double Letter exceeding one Quarter of a Tola, but not exceeding one Tola in weight. Single Postage (that is 5 Annas) to be added for every additional half Tola weight. Newspaper not exceeding 3 Tolas in weight. 5 10 Newspapers exceeding 3 Tolas but not exceeding 6 Tolas. Newspapers exceeding 6 Tolas but not exceeding 9 Tolas. Single Postage (that is 3 Annas) to be added for every additional 3 Tolas.
N. B. It is to be understood that the above Rates are exclusive of the Inward Ship Postage of 2 Annas which will be levied on each Newspaper whether forwarded to Calcutta, Madras, or Bombay.
Newspapers must be put up in short covers open at each end, and if they are found to contain any writing except the Superscription they will be charged as letters of a corresponding weight.
By order,
RICHARD WOOSNAM.
Government House, Hongkong, 6th April 1843.
Government Notification.
WITH reference to the preceding Notification it is hereby announced that, to obviate inconvenience to the Public, Letters will be received at the Post Office at Hongkong, and the British Consular Agency at Macao, (as they have been for some time past) for transmission to Europe, and India, on the payment of the Ship and Indian inland Postage (as the case may be) although the necessity for enlarging the Post Office and providing a proper establishment, will not admit of the system being fully introduced before the 1st of June.
By order,
RICHARD WOOSNAM.
Government House, Hongkong, 7th April, 1843.
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