Notice to the public, and instructions to all postmasters, sub-postmasters, and letter-receivers
Subtitle: printed newspapers, duly stamped, addressed to any part of Canada, and marked by the sender to be forwarded "via Boston," will not, in future, be liable to any charge for the conveyance by packet ...
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1844
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Postal service; History
Notes: Broadside.

Dated: General Post Office, Edinburgh, May, 1844.

In upper left-hand corner: Instructions no. 18, 1844.

Signed at end: By command, E.S. Lees, secretary.

"They [i.e. printed newspapers] will, however, be charged on delivery in Canada, with a colonial rate of one penny each paper ..."