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pace was moderated as occasion might require. This 

 observation only applied to the coaches. For the 

 mails there was no moderation of pace ; they were 

 obliged to keep the same time whatever the season, 

 and notwithstanding that the greater part of their 

 journeys was performed in the dark. The only 

 obstacles which they were unable to overcome were 

 fogs, floods, and snow ; ordinary badness or heaviness 

 of roads in winter they did by some means or other 

 successfully contend against. 



There were many acts by which proprietors of 

 stage-coaches or their coachmen and guards might 

 incur penalties in consequence of violating some Act 

 of Parliament which they had either never seen or 

 wholly disregarded, running the risk of penalties 

 being inflicted upon themselves, and totally indif- 

 ferent whether they were laying their masters open to 

 penalties being inflicted upon them. So, in order to 

 keep clear of the professional informer's net, Sherman 

 had this notice printed and circulated among his 

 coachmen and guards connected with the Estafette 

 coach, and also in his establishment as a caution to 

 the other men in his service in their departments : 



2nd and 3rd William: IV., Cap. 120. 



Estafette, 2964. 



TAKE NOTICE. 



This coach, on and after 5th instant, is licensed to carry four 

 inside, and nine outside ; and if more be carried either inside or 



