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Whereas a Number of Pacquet Boats are provided and established, at Falmouth, for carrying on a regular Monthly Correspondence between these Kingdoms and His Majesty's Islands in the West-Indies; and also to and from the several Colonies on the Continent of North-America;
Public Notice is hereby given to all Merchants, and others, whom it may concern, That Letters and Packets for the said Islands, and Colonies on the Continent of North-America, will be taken in and received, at this Office, from the Date hereof, upon their being paid for, after the Rates, settled by Act of Parliament, as undermentioned, viz.
| From London to the Islands of Barbadoes, Antegoa, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Christophers and Jamaica, | for | a Single Letter | 1s. 6d. |
| a Double Letter | 3s. 0d. | ||
| a Treble Letter | 4s. 6d. | ||
| an Ounce Letter | 6s. 0d. | ||
| From London to New-York, New-England, Virginia, Maryland, and all the other Colonies on the Continent of North America, | |||
| a Single Letter | 1s. 0d. | ||
| a Double Letter | 2s. 0d. | ||
| a Treble Letter | 3s. 0d. | ||
| an Ounce Letter | 4s. 0d. |
The first Mail of Letters, for the several Islands in the West-Indies, will be made up, and dispatched from this Office, upon Saturday the 8th Day of November next, and be continued on the First Saturday of every Month following.
The first Mail of Letters, by the way of New-York, for the several Colonies on the Continent of North-America, will be made up and dispatched from this Office, upon the 15th of the said Month of November next, and so be continued on the Second Saturday of every Month throughout the Year.
The full Postage of the above Letters and Packets must be paid at the Time of their Delivery into this Office, or at the Receiving Houses in Town; And all such as are put into the several Post-Houses in Great Britain and Ireland, must, over and above the said Rates, pay also the full Inland Postage to London, without which they cannot be forwarded from hence.
GEO. SHELVOCKE, Secretary.
