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 CALCULATION OF POSTING,

From One Shilling to Two Shillings and Sixpence per Mile.

RATES OF POSTAGE OF LETTERS IN GREAT BRITAIN.

From any Post Office in England or Wales to any Place not exceeding Fifteen Miles from such Office, 4d.

And so increasing One Penny for a single Letter on every like Excess of One Hundred Miles.

Letters to and from Scotland are charged ½d. more than the above Rates.

Note.—No Letter charged more than Treble, unless the same shall weigh an ounce; then to be rated as four single letters, and so in proportion for every Quarter of an Ounce.—Letters to Soldiers and Sailors, if single, charged 1d. only.

THE END.

S. Gosnell, Printer, Little Queen Streest