Benjamin Franklin and John Foxcroft: Certificate of Hugh Finlay’s
Appointment as Postmaster
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Post-Masters-General of all his Majesty’s Provinces and
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minions on the Continent of North-America. |
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and to all other his Majesty’s Officers and Ministers,
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astical, Civil, or Military, within the said Provinces and
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These are to certify, That the Bearer hereof
Hugh Finlay Esquire is appointed by us to be Postmaster
of Quebec which Employment requires at all Times his Personal
Attendance, and that His Majesty’s Revenue in the Post-Office
(great Part of which is now subjected to the Payment of the public
Debts), may suffer very much by his being obliged to serve in the
Train’d-Bands, or any other public Office, Ecclesiastical, Civil,
or Military: For Notification whereof, We have Signed and Caused
the Seal of our Office to be hereunto affixed, this Tenth
Day of June in the Third Year of his Majesty’s
Reign.