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Monarch
GEORGE III
Year
1791
Title
31 Geo. III, c. 10,
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, 25oz = a single letter, lists officers entitled to free post - Lord Lieutenant, Chief Secretary, Secretary of State, Ulster and Munster Secretaries, Under-Secretaries 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. first fine and then felony, post free from tolls and to be expedited, four-wheel carriages carrying mail to be tolled quarterly, letters coming into Ireland pay from port of entry [rv]

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