Q. Suppose a person, being far from home, finds a letter in a postoffice directed to him, and he lives in a place to which the post generally goes, and the letter is directed to that place, will the postmaster deliver him the letter without his paying the postage receivable at the place to which the letter is directed?
A. Yes; the office cannot demand postage for a letter that it does not carry, or farther than it does carry it.
Q. Are not ferrymen in America obliged, by act of Parliament, to carry over the posts without pay?
A. Yes.
Q. Is not this a tax on the ferrymen?
A. They do not consider it as such, as they have an advantage from persons travelling with the post.
Q. If the stamp-act should be repealed, and the crown should make a requisition to the colonies for a sum of money, would they grant it?
A. I believe they would.
Q. Why do you think so?
A. I can speak for the colony I live in: I have it in instruction from the Assembly to assure the ministry, that as they always had done, so they should always think it their duty to grant such aids to the crown as were suitable to their circumstances and abilities, whenever called upon for that purpose, in the usual constitutional manner; and I had the honour of communicating this instruction to that honourable gentleman then minister.