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Title: Cheap Postage

Author: Joshua Leavitt

Release Date: November 7, 2008 [Ebook #27196]

Language: English

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CHEAP POSTAGE

REMARKS AND STATISTICS

ON THE SUBJECT OF

CHEAP POSTAGE AND POSTAL REFORM

IN

GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES.

BY JOSHUA LEAVITT,

COR. SEC. OF THE CHEAP POSTAGE ASSOCIATION.

"The well-ordering of the Postes is a Matter of General Concernment, and
of Great Advantage, as well for the preservation of Trade and Commerce as
otherwise."--Statute of Charles II.

Boston

Published for the Cheap Postage Association;

By Otis Claps, Treasurer,

No. 12, School Street.

1848

CONTENTS

PUBLISHING DIRECTION.
CHEAP POSTAGE.
APPENDIX.
Footnotes

PUBLISHING DIRECTION.

Subjoined are the proceedings under which the following sheets were
prepared and are now published:

"At a meeting of the _Board of Directors_ of the CHEAP POSTAGE
ASSOCIATION, on the 31st of March, 1848, Dr. Howe, Dr. Webb, and Mr.
Leavitt were appointed a Committee of Publication. And on motion of Dr.
Samuel G. Howe, it was

"_Voted_, That the Publishing Committee be authorized to procure the
compilation of a pamphlet on the subject of Cheap Postage and Postal
Reform.

"At a meeting of the Board, on the 25th of April, 1848, Mr. Leavitt, the
Corresponding Secretary, on behalf of the Publishing Committee, reported
the copy of a pamphlet on the subject prescribed. And on motion of Mr.
Moses Kimball, it was

"_Voted_, That the pamphlet be printed for general circulation, under the
direction of the Publishing Committee."

J. W. JAMES,
_Chairman of the Board_.

CHARLES B. FAIRBANKS, _Recording Se