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A65623 Whereas there was an act made in the 12th year of this King entituled An act for the creating and establishing a post office wherein the postage of letters for His Majesties dominions is exprest ... 1681 (1681) Wing W1632A; ESTC R25732 1,060 1

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WHereas there was an Act made in the 12 th year of this King Entituled An Act for the Erecting and Establishing a Post-Office Wherein the Postage of LETTERS for His Majesties Dominions is exprest And also a Schedule of Rates for Foreign Letters In which Act there is a Proviso in the words following Provided always That all Merchants Accompts not exceeding one Sheet of Paper and all Bills of Exchange Invoices or Bills of Parcels and Bills of Lading are and shall hereby be understood to be allowed without Rate in the Price of the Letters And likewise the Covers of Letters not exceeding the fourth part of a sheet of Paper sent to Ma●sielles Venice or Leogorn to be sent towards Turky shall be understood to pass without Rate or Payment for the same The said Clause or Proviso as is humbly conceived ought to be apply'd to the Body of the ACT and not restrain'd as the Post-master doth to Foreign Letters only excluding His Majesties Subjects and the Trade of the Three Kingdoms from the just Right and Claim or Benefit thereof by Extorting Rates for every such Account Bill of Exchange Invoice or Bill of Parcels or Patterns of less bulk or weight or Bill of Lading or Cover of a Letter as for a Double Letter So that in that circumstance a Letter may go cheaper to Constantinople than to Bristol or Place of that Distance contrary to the express Words and Meaning the literal Sense or Reason of the said Clause And for that it cannot be imagined the PARLIAMENT should either so far forget themselves or the Countrey for which they served or the necessary and convenient Correspondence as well as the Trade of His Majesties Dominions as to put them upon worse and harder tearms than Foreigners or Foreign Trade to the Prejudice of the Kingdom taking more than the Law allows by above Twenty tbousand pounds per annum whilst the Revenue is said to produce to the Duke of York yearly above forty thousand pounds more than it was valued at the time it was granted Complaints have been made hereof a long time and the Post-master threatned with Indictments but the charge or Prosecution was too great for any Private Person to wrestle with so great a Power And some who were most concern'd being allow'd to tax their own Letters to keep them from joyning in the Prosecution nothing was done therein A Petition complaining of this Abuse and Extortion was Presented in the late long Parliament and referred to a Committee wherein a Noble Lord had the Chair But they very seldom met to effect a Redress And in the late Parliament the Complaint was again revived but before any thing could be done the House was Dissolv'd It is now Humbly Prayed that this Honourable House will give their Judgement on that Proviso to the intent the Correspondence and Trade in General way receive its just Benefit and Encouragement And that the Votes and News-Books for the Informtation of the Kingdom may go free as heretofore with what else this Honourable House shall think fit