Note 493 — IV MINOR RATES
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"For the Port of every Single Letter, or Piece of Paper, to or from any Place not exceeding Eighty English Miles distant from the said General Post Office in London, and within that Part of Great Britain called England, and not coming from or directed on Shipboard, Three-pence; and for the like Port of every Double Letter, Sixpence; etc."—9 Anne, cap. 10, § 6.