Given at Our Court at Kensington, the Twenty sixth Day of June, in the Seventh Year of Our Reign.
London, Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceas'd; Printers to the Queens most Excellent Majesty. 1708. (Price Two Pence.)
_1 p. folio. Copies in B. M., P. C., and P. R. O. Entered on Patent Rolls; entered in Privy Council Register, Anne, vol. 4, p. 120. Printed in "London Gazette," July 12, 1708._
[1] _Statutes of the Realm_, 10 William III, ch. 14, vol. 7, p. 515. The House of Commons on March 31, 1708, petitioned the Queen that the laws regulating trade with Newfoundland should be enforced (_Commons Journals_, xv, 644, 648). A long address on the subject from the Privy Council to the Queen, May 20, 1708, is printed in the _Acts of the Privy Council_, ii, 553.
FOR ENFORCING THE DUE EXECUTION OF THE ACT, INTITULED, AN ACT FOR ESTABLISHING A GENERAL POST-OFFICE FOR ALL HER MAJESTIES DOMINIONS, AND FOR SETTLING A WEEKLY SUM OUT OF THE REVENUES THEREOF, FOR THE SERVICE OF THE WAR, AND OTHER HER MAJESTIES OCCASIONS.
Whereas by an Act of Parliament made in the Last Session of Parliament, Intituled, An Act for Establishing a General Post-Office for all Her Majesties Dominions, and for Settling a Weekly Sum out of the Revenues thereof, for the Service of the War, and other Her Majesties Occasions,[1] It is Enacted, That from and after the First Day of this Instant June, there be One General Letter-Office and Post-Office Established in the City of London, from whence all Letters and Packets may be with speed and expedition sent into any Part of the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or to North-America, the West-Indies, or to any other of Our Dominions or Territories, or to any other Kingdom or Country beyond the Seas; at which said Office all Returns and Answers may be Received.