establishing  a  General  Post  Office  for  all  Her  Majesti/'s  Domi"
nionsy  and  for  settling  a  Weekly  Sum  out  of  the  Revenues  thereof
for  iJie  Service  of  the  fVar^  and  other  Her  Majesty's   Occasions,
it  was  amongst  other  Things  enacted,  that  from  and  after  the
First  Day  of  June  One   thousand  seven  hundred  and   eleven
there  should  be  from  thenceforth  One  General  Letter  Office
and  Post  Office  erected  and  established  in  some  convenient
Place  within  the  City  of  London,  from  whence  al]  Letters  and
Packets  whatsoever  might  be  with  Speed  and  Expedition  sent
into  any  Part  of  the  Kingdoms  of  Great  Britain  and  Ireland,  or
to  North  America,  the  IVest  Indies,  or  to  any  other  of  Her  Ma-
jesty's Dominions  or  Territories,  or  unto  any  other  Kingdom  or
Country  beyond  the  Seas;  at  which  said  Office  all  Returns  and
Answers  might  be  likewise  received ;  and  that  One  Master  of
the  said  General  I^etter  Office  and  Post  Office  should  be  from
time  to  time  appointed  by  the  Queen's  Majesty,  Her  Heirs  and
Successors,  to  be  made  and    constituted  by  Letters   Patent
under  the  Great  Seal  of  Great  Britain,  by  the  Name  and  Style
of  '*  Her  Majesty's  Postmaster  General ; "  which  said  Master  of
the  said  Office,  and  his  Deputy  and  Deputies  by  him  thereunto
sufficiently  authorized,  and  his  and  their  Servants  and  Agents,
and  no  other  Person  or  Persons  whatsoever,  should  from  time
to  time  and  at  all  Times  have  the  receiving,  taking  up,  ordering,
dispatching,  sending  Post  or  with  Speed,  carrying,  and  deliver-
ing of  all  Letters  and  Packets  whatsoever,  which  should  from
time  to  time  and  at  all  or  any  Times  be  sent  to  and  from  all
and  every  the  Parts  and  Places  of  Great  Britain  and  Ireland,
North  America,  the  JVest  Indies,  and  other  Her  Majesty's  Do-
minions, and  also  to  and  from  all  and  every  the  Kingdoms  and
Countries  beyond  the  Seas  where  he  should  settle  or  cause  to  be
settled  Posts  or  running  Messengers  for  that  Purpose  ;  except
such  Letters  as  in  the  said  Act  are  particularly  mentioned :
And  whereas  an  Act  was  passed  by  the  Parliament  of  the  King-
dom o£  Ireland  in  the  Twenty -third  and  Twenty-fourth  Years
of  the  Reign  of  His  late  Majesty  King  George  the  Third,*  in-
tituled An  Act  for  establishing  a  Post  Office  within  this  Kingdom,  S3  &  24  G.  s.
