GENERAL POST-OFFICE, April 25, 1808

by Gideon Granger

$450 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

Broadside. Printed document, approximately 8 x 7 in. Text in full: Sir, An act has lately passed, directing that certain copies of the Communications made by the President to Congress, shall be conveyed by post, free of postage. All packages, therefore, which are forwarded by a member of Congress, by the Secretary of the Senate, or Clerk of the House of Representatives, and on which he writes the words PUBLIC DOCUMENTS, or others to that effect, are to be admitted to be of that description,

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