CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867 — Page 106

will

formyard this better

to the Governa

no of

the

Charts Lettlements.

But before doing so, His Grace is anxims to draw your attention. to the great difference

in the amount of the sea-rate proposed to be charged on letters

and on

hewspapers

The inland postajo is to be the same, cizt

gd

on a letter of

1/350z and a

of 4 oz ;-

a

newspaper

the newspaper

being allowed to pass

for 8 times the weight of letters carried at the same charge. But the sea-rate

Whilst

whether the proportion obscen

steven

Adration beltens

Fin

spapers in inland Decology flight not be extend to the sa

Rata

3

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Whilst it is also to be on each newspaper, to to be Bon caal Letter

thus making the charge on a given Wright

of

letters no less than 32 times the chaye

the same weight of newspapers.

Leening the importance of giving due encouragement

to private corespondence, I am desired to

for

request that you will aspraint one the information of the Duke of Buckingham and Chandro, whettions this disparity in the sea-pates of letters

and

newspapers by the proposed lines is considered indispensable and advisabley.

Sam to BR