Monarch

GEORGE III

Year

1789

Title

29 Geo. III, c. 20,

Description

An Act for granting to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors certain Duties and Rates upon the Portage and Conveyance of all Letters and Packets within this Kingdom.

Classification

Revenue - Post Office organisation etc. as in previous acts, lists officers entitled to free post - Lord Lieutenant, Chief Secretary, Secretary of State, Ulster and Munster Secretaries, Under-Secretary and First Clerk for civil and military departments, Secretary of GPO, Comptroller of Sorting Office and Surveyors; Muster-affidavits from out-pensioners of Royal Hospital; forging signatures etc. - fines and then felony; post free from tolls and to be expedited, four-wheel carriages carrying mail to be tolled quarterly [rv]