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Packet Rate Cha~ge Hark.
••1/-·•, "Too Pa,y", 'r.Ype TP 2.

~o• AI.Cu£t, 1843, ,...e,.. packet rates to j:nGlond weu authorised,

&thouglo - as before ihis dait. - letters could be .SC/It "Pa1d• or
u"paid fot the Bdtish Pos~ Otlice to collfet t~e cl.arge on
deli~e•·.v. '!'he ne~< charges were! an " • ll in• cltart~ cri l/i!d tor
lettere fro• e pOst TOwn or 1/- f1~• K>ngston.

To show the char1e to be collected the Jamatcan Post O£iice

either endorsed i l> e letters in 111anuscupt or used a l>andstalllp,
aS ihe Br.i tish poatal cler'ks neeclecl ~o know whether the leHer
was fro~ a Post Tow~ or Kin~ston, or ~dd\tionolly, wneiher an¥
char~es were due to the "anaican FOst Oftice fo~ t'h~ deli very

ot 8 Po£t Town letter to Kih~6ton.

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Ehtir9 fro• Kintston to kilnthorpe, C~aberland, ~it1 1/-
handstemp in black illk ah<i on the reverse kin6:&ton J< 7A dai:er

ol ihe loth March, J84Y and Milnihorpe r~ce!ving dater a£ ihe

9t'h April, 1649·