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Title: The Development of Rates of Postage
An Historical and Analytical Study

Author: A. D. Smith

Contributor: Herbert Samuel

Release Date: September 28, 2010 [EBook #34011]

Language: English

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Transcriber's Notes

This is a Plain Text version. It uses the 7-bit ASCII character set.

Accented characters are represented as follows:

['a] indicates the acute accent
[e'] indicates the grave accent
[^i] indicates the circumflex accent
[:u] indicates the umlaut

The following are used to represent special characters and marks:

[~d] [~r] [~n] indicates a tilde above d, r, n
[p=] indicates a line below p
[=o] [=co] [=xon] indicate an overline above 1, 2 or 3 characters
[^p] indicates an inverted breve above p
[oe] indicates an oe ligature
[L] indicates the pound (Sterling) sign
[S] indicates the Section symbol

Italic typeface in the original is indicated with _underscores_. Bold
typeface in the original is indicated by UPPER CASE. Small capital
typeface in the original is indicated by UPPER CASE.

There are a large number of footnotes. These have been grouped together
at end of each chapter or major section in which they are referenced.

There are numerous quotations from documents in German, French and
archaic English which use many abbreviations, variant spellings and
inconsistent spellings. These are retained, except where obvious typo
corrections are listed at the end of this document.

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STUDIES IN ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE.

EDITED BY THE HON. W. PEMBER REEVES, PH.D., _Director of the London
School of Economics and Political Science._

No. 50 in the Series of Monographs by writers connected with the London
School of Economics and Political Science.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF RATES OF POSTAGE