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The Legislative Council of the island passed Ordinance No 13 on
17th December 1846, fixing, inter alia, the rate of internal postage
at 2d. per half-ounce for country letters and 1d. per ounce for local
town delivery. Most of the new regulations came into force on New Year's
Day 1847. Article 9 of the Ordinance is particularly intereting
because it foreshadowed the use of postage stamps.
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Article
9
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Every letter, newspaper or packet of any kind liable to postage under
this Ordinance, if posted within the colony and its dependencies, and
having a stamp or stamps affixed thereto and appearing on the outside
- such stamps being provided by the Government - and being of the value
or amount required in each case according to the preceding tariff, and
not having been used before, shall pass by the post free of postage.
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