Cheap Postage

by Joshua Leavitt

PUBLISHING DIRECTION.

Subjoined are the proceedings under which the following sheets were prepared and are now published:

“At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Cheap Postage Association, on the 31st of March, 1848, Dr. Howe, Dr. Webb, and Mr. Leavitt were appointed a Committee of Publication. And on motion of Dr. Samuel G. Howe, it was

“Voted, That the Publishing Committee be authorized to procure the compilation of a pamphlet on the subject of Cheap Postage and Postal Reform.

“At a meeting of the Board, on the 25th of April, 1848, Mr. Leavitt, the Corresponding Secretary, on behalf of the Publishing Committee, reported the copy of a pamphlet on the subject prescribed. And on motion of Mr. Moses Kimball, it was

“Voted, That the pamphlet be printed for general circulation, under the direction of the Publishing Committee.”

J. W. James,
Chairman of the Board.

Charles B. Fairbanks, Recording Secretary.

Boston, April 26, 1848.