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Agent's hi the Kin'g's Dominions and tountries beyond the
Seas.' •
Sect. 5. For the Security of Letters coming to Great Bri.
tain, and to place them under the Operation Of this Act, Sect.
5 and 6, the Postmaster-General is to authorise /luso:1k '
Abroad' to collect Letters from Masters of-Ships and others,
and to maks them up in sealed Bags of Parcels addressed to
the Postmaster GenUal,.putting into the said Bags or Pareets
a Certificate of the Number of Letters contain'etm tia: same,
anti an Impression of the Seal which shall be -used, ,and the
Date when sealed, and for their Care and Trouble the Mas-
ters to wlrsm fire Bags of Parcels-shall be confided fur Coll.:.
veyanec to Gretit Britain, shall pay to inch authorized Per-
son at the Rate of 3s. British Money, for every 50 Letters;and
so in proportion for a greater or lesser •
The Packet Agents and Deputies to the Postmaster General
in the King's Dominions, or Countries beyond the Seas,, the
Colonial PorstmaSters, his Majesty's Consuls, or Vice Consuls,
or where there arc no Public' Otiice." of these .Desuiptions,
any other Publie Otlicers or respectable Person will be antho -
rised by the Postinisler General to make up Bags and Parcels
of Letters in the manner before described.

Masters of Ships
Sect. 6. Ave. to pay as aboVe for, the. Bags entrusted to
them,, and on delivering the same in a perfect State at any
Post-Otlice in Great Britain, will be repaid by the Postmaster
the Sum of Money which they shall have so advanced, and
also for their own Care and,Trouble the Sum of Tivo-pence
pri Letter for every Letter or Packet contained in such Bags
or •Pa reels.

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Sect. 7. If any Master shall open' •'any Bag or Parcel en-
trusted to ur oat any Letter, or not duly deliver the
Bag with the Letters at. the Post Office, of the Place ivlu he
sf~all arrive, without wilful or unavoidable Delay, every Mas-
ter slat!! forfeit and .pay 5301. -
Sta. 11. The Masters are required on their Arrival in
Port, to sign a Declaration that ;'my have delivered all Let-
ters on board according to the Act, and until such Declara-
tion, the Officers are not to permit the Vessel 'to break Bulk,
and every Master wilfully neglecting shall forfeit 501.
And with re,pw, to Letters froin.Great Britain' to Coun-
tries abroad, Masters of Vessels are required to take NOtice,
that if theyiaialt have on board any such Letter (except the
Letters of ,their Owners) neither inclosed in the sealed Bags
that will continue to be made up at the General Post-Office,
and at the Out Ports; nor having the official Mark and Stamp,
to denote that a ;tate:of ,POtage has been paid for the same,
'of which Stamp Impressions are eNhibited at every Post-Of-
fice), such Master shall as aforesaid forfeit the Sum of rive
Pounds for every Letter. And the Officers of the Customs
are, under this Act, to administer an Oath to every Master,
that he has rot any Letters on board contrary to Law.
Officers of the Customs:

Sect. R. The principal Officers of the Customs at every
Port are required to search Ships for Letters on hoard, con-
trary to the Act, and to seize them, and they are to be inti-
tled to a Moiety of the Penaltie..i.
Sect. 10. Such Officers are required, to administer an Oath
to every :faster outward bound, that he has not any Letters
on Nord ....I:jell have not paid the Bates, not being the Letters
of the Owners.

A Declaration is to be signed by every Master arriving from
abroad, as explained in that part of this Advertisement imme-
diately addressed •to them ;• and until such Declaration the
Officers are. not to permit the Vessel to break Bulk, and
(Sec. I 2) if any Collectur, Comptroller, or principal, Officer,
hereby required to prohibit any Ship or Vessel breaking Bulk
until the Provisions of this Act be complied with; shall permit
such Ship or Vessel to break Bulk, such Collector, Comptrol-
ler, or Officer so permitting such Ship or Vessel to break
Bulk, shall forfeit or pay the Sum of Twenty Pounds; one
Moiety thereof to be paid to the Informer.
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Merchants, Brokers, and the Public,

Sect. S. Will take notice, that if any Person whatsoever
shall send any 'Letter or Packet by any Ship or Vessel of
which he shall not• be the Owner, or if any Master shall
have on board or cam' any Letter not being the Letter of his
Owners, without such- official Mark thereon, the Person, so
offending shall forfeit and pay 3/. for every such Letter or
Packet.

Sect. 14. Any Petson who shall forge or counterfeit the
Stamp Mark of Postage, or Designation, to be put upon the
Letters by_Authority of the Postmaster-General, with intent
to avoid the Postage, will be guilty of a.Misdemeanor.
• • Sect. 13. '.Rg several Penalties of this. Act to be recovered
in any.CoUrt of Record with full Costs ; a Moiety to be paid
to the King, and the other to any Person who will'inform and.
sue for the same.
Sect. 15. This Act does not extend to restrain the East
India Company nor their Directors, from sending and receiv-
ing from their Governments and Servants abroad, Packets,
Letters, and Papers relating to the Affairs of the Company,
and of their GovernMents abroad in the manner accustomed ;
but all Letters that are not the Official Letters and Packets
of the East. India Company, are, liable to the Rates and Re-
gulations of this Act.
This. Aet will be put in execution at the General Post-
Office, London, and at all Post ()tikes in Great Britain, on
the ilth of October, 1814 and in places.abruad as soon as
may be afterwards.

'the Postmester General will feel it Kis Duty to enforce Pay-
ment .ef the. Penalties on every Breach of the 7Law.
By Comolaud of the Postmaster General,
FRANCIS FRIELING; Sccrctery.