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3 cents when prepaid and from 10 to 6 cents when not
prepaid.
That the revenues of the Department have been perennially diminished
by these reductions cannot be denied; but it is believed that this
diminution has been slight in comparison with the public benefits
which have followed the adoption of rates of postage, which (the cost
of transportation consequent upon the vast extent over which our more
remote settlements are scattered, the general sparseness of our
population and the high prices of clerical and other labor being
considered) are believed to be the cheapest which have ever been
adopted by any Government of ancient or modern times.
FOOTNOTES:
[A] [B] Respectively Postmaster-General and Postmaster of
Buffalo.--ED.
[C] Succeeded in 1866 by Joseph Candee (died Nov. 20, 1884);
succeeding Postmasters of Buffalo have been: Isaac M. Schermerhorn;
Thomas M. Blossom (appointed in 1869, died Feb. 10, 1882); Isaac M.
Schermerhorn (second appointment, April, 1871); John M. Bedford
(appointed April 1, 1879); John B. Sackett (appointed March 7, 1887);
Bernard F. Gentsch (appointed May 28, 1890, died Aug. 3, 1894);
Howard H. Baker (appointed June 7, 1894), present incumbent.--ED.
[D] Predecessor of the Academy of Music, east side of Main, between
Seneca and Swan Streets.--ED.

[E] Last quarter only.
[F] Stamps sold for currency $18,000 more, furnished from Buffalo P.
O.
[G] AUTHOR'S NOTE--This is probably erroneous as it will be seen
that the post-road from Whitestown to Canandaigua was established
and service thereon advertised for in 1794. It is quite certain that there
was mail service on this route as early as 1795.
[H] AUTHOR'S NOTE.--This was stated on the authority of Turner's
"History of the Holland Purchase" and it was supposed there could be
no doubt of its accuracy. But in Vol. 1., Miscellaneous, of the
American State Papers, published by Gales & Seaton, is a list of
post-offices in 1800 (p. 289), and of those established in 1801 (p. 298),
and in the latter is "Batavia, N. Y., Sanford Hunt, Postmaster." It may
be that Mr. Hunt did not accept the appointment and that Mr. Brisbane
was appointed in 1802.

Transcriber's Note:
Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.

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