Notice to the public, and instructions to all postmasters, sub-postmasters, and letter receivers
Subtitle: the government of the United States having raised the transit rate of postage chargeable upon newspapers conveyed through American territory in the closed mails between Great Britain and Canada, all newspapers hereafter ... will be liable to the charge of one penny each, instead of one halfpenny ...
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1847
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Postal service; History
Notes: Broadside.

Dated: General Post-Office, August 1847.

In upper left-hand corner: Instructions, no. 17, 1847, referring to Instructions, no. 5, 1845.

At head of title: By command of the Postmaster General.