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Again, to prevent the possibility of these being used a _second time_, it should be made imperative on postmasters to put the post office town stamp (as represented in one of the specimens), across the slip or postage stamp.
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Life, that the large supply provided of the first postage envelope, the Mulready, had actually _to be destroyed_ as wholly unsuitable and unsaleable, while the supply of adhesive stamps was with difficulty brought up to the demand. The force and value of Mr. Chalmers' objections to the stamp impressed upon the sheet itself, are best exemplified by the fact that, though ultimately sanctioned by the Treasury at the instance of Mr. Hill, such plan never came into use. People bought their own paper from the stationers, and not from the Stamp Office, and applied the adhesive stamp as the weight required. Mr. Chalmers concludes,
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General Postage--not exceeding half-an-ounce--One Penny. And the same--
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Not exceeding one ounce--Twopence. (It is only of late years that a penny has franked one ounce in weight.) A space divides each stamp for cutting off singly,[5] and the back of the sheet is gummed over. One of the specimens is stamped across with the post-mark,
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Dundee, 10th February, 1838,