1 Benjamin Franklin [1766 
take the matter into consideration, and if it is right 
to be done, they will do it of themselves. 
Q. Do not letters often come into the post-offices 
in America, directed to some inland town where no 
post goes? 
A. Yes. 
Q. Can any private person take up those letters 
and carry them as directed? 
A. Yes; any friend of the person may do it, pay- 
ing the postage that has accrued. 
Q. But must not he pay an additional postage 
for the distance to such inland town? 
A. No. 
(Q. Can the post-master answer delivering the let- 
ter, without being paid such additional postage? 
A. Certainly he can demand nothing where he 
does no service. 
(. 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-mas- 
ter 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 ferry-men in America obliged, by act 
of Parliament, to carry over the posts without pay? 
A.4 Yes. 
QO. Isnot this a tax on the ferry-men? 
A. They do not consider it as such, as they have 
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