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, paying
 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 letter,
 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-master
 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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