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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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Other
rates
were
charged
to
other
parts
of
the
American
continent,
according
to
the
distance
from
New
York,
at
something
less
than
the
English
rate.
5.
The
principal
deputy
postmasters
are
empowered
to
erect
cross-posts
or
stages,
so
that
all
parts
of
the
country
may
have
equal
advantage
as
far
as
practicable,
but
only
in
cases
where
the
postmasters
are
assured
that
such
erections
will
be
for
"the
better
maintainance
of
trade
and
commerce,
and
mutual
correspondences."
6.
A
survey
of
all
the
post-roads
shall
be
made,
so
that
the
distances
between
any
place
and
the
chief
office
in
each
country
"shall
be
settled
by
the
same
measure
and
standard."
These
surveys
must
be
made
regularly,
"as
necessity
showeth;"
and
when
finished,
the
distances
must
be
fairly
shown
by
"books
of
surveys"
one
of
which
must
be
kept
in
each
of
the
head
offices,
and
by
each
of
the
surveyors
themselves.
The
surveyors
who
shall
be
appointed
and
authorized
to
measure
the
distances
must
swear
to
perform
the
same
to
the
best
of
their
skill
and
judgment.[36]
7.
Letters
may
be
brought
from
abroad
by
private
ship,
but
must
be
delivered
at
once
into
the
hands
of
the
deputy
postmasters
at
the
respective
ports,
who
will
pay
the
master
of
such
ship
a
penny
for
every
letter
which
he
may
thus
deliver
up
to
them.
It
is
hoped
that,
by
these
arrangements,
merchants
will
not
suffer
as
they
had
previously
done,
by
having
their
letters
"imbezilled
or
long
detained,
when
they
had
been
given
into
the
charge
of
ignorant
and
loose
hands,
that
understandeth
not
the
ways
and
means
of
speedy
conveyance
and
proper
deliverance,
to
the
great
prejudice
of
the
affairs
of
merchants
and
others."
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