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6784. POST OFFICE, Expediting mails.—[continued].

I opened to the President
a proposition for doubling the velocity of
the post riders, who now travel about fifty miles
a day, and might, without difficulty, go one
hundred, and for taking measures (by way-bills)
to know where the delay is, when there is any.—
The Anas. Washington ed. ix, 101. Ford ed., i, 174.
(1792)