North-America, as establish’d by Act of Parliament in the Ninth

Year of the Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, Entitled, An

Act for Establishing a General Post-Office, for all Her Majesty’s

Dominions.

Post-Office to another, viz. by the Figure, or Figures, set down

at the Angle of Meeting, or in the Square which points to both

Places.

Look in the Table for New-York, and thence carry your Eye

strait down until it comes opposite to Williamsburg, and in that

Point of Meeting you’ll find [5] which is Five Penny-weight of

Silver, for the Port of a Single Letter between those Two Offices.

Double Letters, and trebled for all Treble Letters, and for every

Ounce Weight Four times as much must be charged as is here

set down.

the Rates set down in these Tables, with 16 Grains Weight of

Silver, for such as are received from on Board; and with 8 Grains

Weight, for such as are directed on Board any Ship or Vessel:

And the whole Postage of these last Sort, must be paid down at

the Post-Office where such Letters and Packets are delivered in.

Road, and for all Expresses sent from any Stage to any Place out

of the Post Road, there must be charged and paid One Penny-

weight of Silver for every Mile such Express shall be sent.