A. No.
Q. Can the post-master answer delivering the letter, without being paid such additional postage?
A. Certainly he can demand nothing, where he does no service.
Q. Suppose a person, being far from home, finds a letter in a post-office 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 post-master 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Q. If the stamp-act should be repealed, and the crown should make a requisition to the colonies for a sum of money, would they grant it?