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Post Office Stamps

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
July
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

- Post office siamps for the conven enee of pre-paying postngp, aro lo be issued on tho lst of JuIy. The slamp for ten cents will bo of tlie liend of Washington, colored black. The live cents' stamp will bc colored brown, and will represent the liead of Franklin. Tlie law snys - "Any letter or pnckei, witil onc or more siamps affixed, equal n amount to the postffgp probaOly chargeable thereon, may be mailed and forwnrded from any post office as a pre-pnid letter or pncket ; but if the starnps aflixed be not adequate to the proper poslage, tlie posIVnaster rcceiving the letter or packet for transmission, will rate t at the amount deficiënt in addition."

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News