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Missing mail bags. Bags believed to have been stolen

General Post Office, December 1, 1796
Raguin Code: NEWS –9611

THERE being great Reason to apprehend the Bags of Letters, which should have arrived at this Office on Saturday Morning the 26th Ultimo, from the following Towns:

Oakham, Spalding, Grantham, Oundle,
Uppingham, Peterborough, Colsterworth, Thrapstone,
Louth, Stilton, Bourne,
Boston, Sleaford, Stamford,

have stolen, Part of the Property contained in the Letters having been negotiated in London on Monday the 28th. Whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted, the Person or Persons who stole the said Bags, or who has or may have been concerned in negotiating Bills taken thereout, will be entitled to a Reward of FIFTY POUNDS; or, if any Accomplice in the Robbery, or concerned in negotiating the Property, shall surrender himself and make Discovery, whereby the Person or Persons who stole the said Bags may be apprehended and brought to Justice, such Discoverer will be entitled to the said Reward of FIFTY POUNDS, and will also receive His Majesty's most gracious Pardon.

ANTHONY TODD, Sec.