Note 151 — I THE RATE FOR LETTERS (continued 2)
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"The officers of the American Army beg leave to inform their friends and correspondents that the postage of all letters to and from the Army is doubled: but as their pay is fully adequate to every expense, they therefore request them to send all letters by the public post, and not through any œconomical view by a private conveyance.
'Tis a pity that the Honourable Congress did not treble the postage for Officers' letters, as a large annual sum by this means would be put into the public Treasury.
The several printers of newspapers on the Continent are requested to insert the above."—Pennsylvania Packet, 22nd June 1779.