The Gentleman's Magazine/Volume 1/Issue 3/To Prevent The Mails Being Robb'd
To prevent the MAILS being robb'd.
THE Bristol Mail, after passing unmolested five Years, having been robb'd twice last Year, and the Persons convicted thereof discover'd by Indorsements on Bank Notes taken away, it has been thought proper by the Postmafter general, to re-publish the Method prescribed in 1724, with some necessary Additions, to make it more difficult for Highway-men, or their Accomplices, to put off such Notes; which Method, as now improved, is recommended to Practice by all Persons who shall send Notes by the Post, viz. to write on the Back the Proprietor's Name, and the Place where sent from and to, with the Day of the Month in Words, not in Figures, which have been alter'd; and to write on the other side an Order to stop Payment, if the Mail is robb'd, in the following manner:
On the Back.
London, March the first, 1730, per Post to Chester,
John Hind, Proprietor of this Note.
On the face of the Note:
Upon Notice that the Mail is robb'd, stop Payment
at the Bank, until Advice from
John Hind
John Strong
If there is occasion to remit the said Note to London, write,
Chester, March the tenth, 1730, per Post to London,
John Strong, Proprietor of this Note.
The Order to stop Payment need not be writ again, only sign'd as above by John Strong under the other Name, and so by every Proprietor, the Names answering on each side. As a further Caution, it is required that the Proprietors keep by them a Memorandum of such Endorsements, also of the Number, Date, and Sum of each Note sent by Post.
N.B. An exact Plan of these Directions may be seen at every Post-house.