The Treasury warrants of that day franked the strangest commodities--articles which certainly would not be dropped into any letter-box, and which would neither be stamped nor sorted in the orthodox way.
Only by those who franked to the Continent were even plausible reasons given; and there can be little doubt that, at all events to some extent, the same reasons operated now.
At first they answered well, but in 1807 an authoritative decision to the effect that franked letters and newspapers conveyed by a fifth-clause post were exempt from charge tended materially to disconcert arrangements.
From Holyhead to Dublin, however, they still went in the mail free of postage, and on arrival in Dublin such of them as were destined for the country were franked by the clerks of the roads.
The franks of this evening are necessarily charged with postage, and you will immediately charge all letters and packets excepting the letters franked by such public officers as are by law at all times exempted from postage.
These clerks, in conjunction with their comptroller, had the exclusive right of franking newspapers for the Continent, just as newspapers circulating within Great Britain werefranked by the clerks of the roads.
This privilege of franking was abused, and one would hear that so and so had franked a ham, and one person was said to havefranked a piano!
Gardener--who gave unstinted personal service in seeing that the documents were obtained and franked when needed.
A carefully selected list of several hundred southern newspapers was furnished to Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, to which he sent franked copies of his excellent speech on this amendment.
Thousands of copies were franked and given to the National Association for distribution.
Letter complaining of Disrespect in His having been in the habit of signing the Initials of His Name to the Letters which he had written to her; and in having sealed a letter addressed to her and franked by the Duke, with a plain seal.
I believe that the letter with the blank seal and signed with my Initials was sent off last Sunday night from Hartford Bridge and was franked by me; I hope that this was not deemed disrespectful.
Members of Parliament, even before the law was passed, were restricted as to the number of letters they were allowed to frank, and were, besides, obliged to put the day of the month upon each letter franked by them.
When the British stamps ran short, letters were franked by postmarks alone, and these are well worth collecting.
Such labels have franked letters or parcels, and have thus fulfilled the conditions which we demand of genuine used stamps.
People took their letters to these depots, paid the postage in actual coin, and an attendant franked the communications by means of a hand stamp.
The so-called "Commando Brief" stamp alleged to have franked the correspondence of burghers on commando is a bogus production.
The letters should in all cases have affixed to them the same stamps, or be franked in the same manner, as if they were going through the post in the ordinary way.
The Supervisor had noticed that the number of franked letters had increased with every session of Parliament, and some of the ex-members also attempted to frank letters.
In 1825 it was enacted that members need no longer sign their names to newspapers franked by them, or give notice of the names of the places to which they intended to send them.
This estimate was obtained by weighing the franked letters at intervals during the session of Parliament, and comparing their weight with the weight of the letters which paid postage.
An estimate was laid before them of the amount lost each year by carrying franked letters.
Members of Parliament, however, had the privilege of franking newspapers within the United Kingdom, the clerks of the Foreign Office franked them to foreign countries, and the Secretary of the Post Office franked them to the colonies.
The system of ascertaining forged franks and of discovering enclosures was as follows: a Supervisor of the Franks charged all letters, franked by a member's name, coming from any place, when he knew that the member was not there.
That the newspapers franked by them are not included in any of the accounts of Deductions in respect of Franks.
Of seven millions of franked letters and documents, nearly five millions were by members of parliament.
In the month of October, 1843, an account was kept at all the offices in the United States, of the number of letters franked and received in that month by members of Congress.
The number offranked letters posted, throughout the kingdom, in two weeks in January, 1838, is stated in the following table.
At this moment there is a bill pending in congress, to protect the franks of members, in consequence of a franked letter having been stopped, on the ground that the direction was not in the handwriting of him who gave the frank.
This should be relieved from the unjust burden of transporting and delivering the franked matter of Congress, for which public service provision should be made from the Treasury.
He did not mind leaving her to choose a meaning for it; it franked him of any responsibility.
Surely the subject franked a dropped voice, in harmony with the beauty of the said evening--a touch of tenderness for its sake entirely.
It was like a very small instalment of what he had no right to say, or even to think; but, uttered in an ambush of possible other meanings, it franked the speaker of any particular one among them.
They constructed roads through the most important portions of the empire, along which a service of posts carried messages at stated intervals, the letters conveyed by these being stamped or franked by clay seals, bearing the name of Sargon.
Until 1837 the member had simply to write his name on the corner of the envelope, and often presented his friends with parcels of franked envelopes.
I cannot believe the report they have there, that it was sent down franked by a parliament-man in a little packet; but probably by next winter this fashion will be at the height in the country, when it is quite out at London.
The unblushing way in which the British Post-office in its earlier days was called upon to convey not only franked letters, but, under franks, articles of a totally different class, will be perceived from the following cases.
And it is certainly neither my interest, nor that of the regular purchasers of "The Friend," to have it bought at a shop, instead of receiving it as a franked letter.
The first copy I can procure of the second edition (of the play) I will do my best to get franked to you.
Gardiner has had franked (or rather prepaid) envelopes prepared, which do away with the necessity of personal application at the delivery window when one wishes to pay postage on sending off a letter.
At the last session, one member had twenty-eight large canvas bags offranked matter, weighing not less than five thousand pounds!
Specimens of the above whichfranked the correspondence of members of the Crimean expeditionary force may be recognized by the distinctive obliteration marks which were as follows:-- 1.
When this was so, a sender on one occasion applied to the post-office to know why some of his franked letters had been charged.
My eyes naturally turned to what lay on the table, merely from the feeling which one has to pass away the time, not from curiosity; and I was much surprised to see a pile of letters the uppermost of which was franked by Lord Privilege.
The arrival of the boxes from the carrier was the first comfort, and then at last came a thick letter from home, franked by Sir George Herries, and containing letters from everybody--even a few roundhand lines from Eugene.
Letters were rare and very expensive articles unless franked by a Member of Parliament, but gazettes and newsletters formed a large portion of his freight.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "franked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
