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Barbadoes, Grenada, St. Christopher's, &c. Schedule & postage rates

General Post Office, January 7, 1764
Raguin Code: NEWS –6401

His Majesty's Post-master General having been pleased to establish Three Packet-Boats, at Falmouth, of 140 Tons and 18 Hands each, for the Conveyance of Mails, Expresses and Passengers, to Barbadoes, Grenada, St. Christopher's, Jamaica, Pensacola, St. Augustine, Savanna, Charles-Town, and back to Falmouth.

The first Mail will be dispatched from this Office on the 23d of February next; the second on the 12th of April; the third on the 14th of June; and upon the Return of every Packet, Notice will be given, when the next Mail is to be dispatched from hence, which is calculated for once in two Months, or thereabout.

The Postage of all Letters and Packets sent from London, must be paid upon their Delivery into this Office; the Inland Postage to London, from all Places in Great Britain or Ireland, must also be paid, over and above the said Rates. The Postage from London to His Majesty's Islands in the West-Indies, is at the Rate of ls. 6d. for a single Letter; to the whole continent of America, including Florida, at ls. per Letter, the double, treble and Ounce Letters and Packets in Proportion; the like Rates will be charged in Return, at this Office, upon the Letters and Packets coming from those Places respectively.

All Letters for any of His Majesty's Islands in the West Indies, not herein mentioned, may be directed by the Way of Barbadoes, Grenada, or St. Christopher's; and if not so directed they will be left at St. Christopher's, to be forwarded from thence as Occasion may offer.

ANTH. TODD, Secretary.