III. [After the establishment of Posts by Colonial Legislatures the powers of the Postmaster General shall cease.]
IV. [The Acts of Colonial Legislatures are to apply only to Posts within the limits of the Colony and to rates of postage within such limits.]
Canada lost no time in taking advantage of the above Act, and in the next year (1850) passed the required ordinances for the transfer of its domestic postal system to the control of its own Government. The next chapter will therefore start the Canadian postal history proper.
[1] In the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.
[2] A Memoir of Jacques Cartier, by J. P. Baxter, p. 135.
[3] Most of the foregoing information is taken from extracts from the Canadian Postal Guide, published in the Stamp Collector's Magazine for Aug. 1, 1868, and the Halifax Philatelist, II: 138.
[4] 12o & 13o Vict. Cap. LXVI.