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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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As
these
alterations
and
various
improvements
cannot
be
well
and
properly
made
without
a
new
Act
for
the
Post-Office,
the
statutes
embodied
in
12
Charles
II.
and
the
statutes
referring
to
the
Scotch
Post-Office
passed
in
the
reign
of
William
and
Mary,
entitled
"An
Act
anent
the
Post-Office,"
and
every
article,
clause,
and
thing
therein,
are
now
declared
repealed,
and
the
statute
of
9
Anne,
c.
10,
called
"An
Act
for
establishing
a
General
Post-Office
in
all
Her
Majesty's
dominions,
and
for
settling
a
weekly
sum
out
of
the
revenue
thereof
for
the
service
of
the
war,
and
other
Her
Majesty's
occasions,"
is
substituted.
This
Act,
which
remained
in
force
so
long,
and
may
be
said
to
have
been
the
foundation
for
all
subsequent
legislation
on
the
subject,
deserves
special
and
detailed
notice.
1.
By
its
provisions
a
General
Post
and
Letter-Office
is
established
within
the
City
of
London,
"from
whence
all
letters
and
packets
whatsoever
may
be
with
speed
and
expedition
sent
into
any
part
of
the
kingdom
of
Great
Britain
and
Ireland,
to
North
America
and
the
West
Indies,
or
any
other
of
Her
Majesty's
dominions,
or
any
country
or
kingdom
beyond
the
seas,"
and
"at
which
office
all
returns
and
answers
may
be
likewise
received."
For
the
better
"managing,
ordering,
collecting,
and
improving
the
revenue,"
and
also
for
the
better
"computing
and
settling
the
rates
of
letters
according
to
distance,
a
chief
office
is
established
in
Edinburgh,
one
in
Dublin,
one
at
New
York,
and
other
chief
offices
in
convenient
places
in
her
Majesty's
colonies
of
America,
and
one
in
the
islands
of
the
West
Indies,
called
the
Leeward
Islands."
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