The Post Office (Revenues) Act 1710 (9 Ann. c. 11) was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which established post offices in the coloniesMax Savelle, Empires to Nations: Expansion in America, 1713-1824, p.43 (1974) and allotted its weekly revenues for the ongoing war and other uses.
The act repealed the Post Office Act 1695 (c. 31 (S)), and united the post offices of England and Scotland under two Postmasters General of Great Britain.
Subsequent developments The whole act, "except so far as relates to the Payment and Appropriation of the weekly Sum of Seven hundred Pounds thereby directed to be paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer, and as relates to Her Majesty's Hereditary Revenue, and except all Annuities and other Payments and Incumbrances to which the Revenue of the Post Office is thereby made liable, and except so far as relates to the Interference with or Participation in Elections of Members of Parliament by Officers of the Post Office", was repealed by section 1 of, and schedule (A.) to, the Post Office (Repeal of Laws) Act 1837 (7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 32).
The whole act, except the last two sections, was repealed for England and Wales by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 116), which came into force on 21 August 1871.
Section 45 (section 91 in Ruffhead's Edition).Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales. The Law Reports: The Public General Statutes passed in the Thirty-Seventh and Thirty-Eighth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 1874. London. 1874. Page 163. Footnote 1. was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Revenue Officers' Disabilities Removal Act 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 22).]
So much of the act as was unrepealed was repealed by section 92 of, and schedule 2 to, the Post Office Act 1908 (8 Edw. 7. c. 48), which came into force on 1 May 1909.
See also Post Office Act
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External links Text of the Act Great Britain Philatelic Society