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Postal Service Act 1815
(55 Geo 3 c.145, 6th July 1815)

An Act to increase the Allowance to the Post Office in Ireland, in respect of Packet Boats to Great Britain.
[6th July 1815]

'WHEREAS by an Act made in the Parliament of Great Britain in the Twenty fourth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for establishing certain Regulations concerning the Portage and Conveyance of Letters and Packets by the Post between Great Britain and Ireland, it was, among other things, enacted, that until the General Post Office of Ireland shall have established Packet Boats for the Port and Conveyance of Letter and Packets from Ireland to Great Britain, there should be allowed in account from the General Letter Office or Post Office in Great Britain to the Revenue of the Post Office in Ireland, a Sum not exceeding Four thousand Pounds per Annum, by Quarterly Payments, in lieu as well of the Profits of the said Packets as in Compensation for other Purposes: And Whereas such Packet Boats have not yet been established by the General Post Office in Ireland, and it is expedient that the said Allowance should be increased;' Be it therefore enacted by The King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That, from and after the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fifteen, until the General Post Office of Ireland shall have established Packet Boats for the Port and Conveyance of Letters and Packets from Ireland to Great Britain, there shall be allowed in account from the General Letter Office or Post Office in Great Britain, to the Revenue of the Post Office in Ireland, a Sum not exceeding Nine thousand Pounds per Annum in the whole, by Quarterly Payments, in lieu as well of the Profits of the said Packets as in Compensation for other Purposes.