James Guest, Thomas Watts, and William Plastans, news-vendors of this town, were committed to Warwick Gaol fur the offence of selling unstamped papers.
He was the first to sell unstamped papers here and in the Black Country, and, notwithstanding heavy fines, and even imprisonment, he kept to his principles as long as the law stood as it was.
Wrotham, when appointed warden of the stannaries in 1198, ordered all masters of ships in Cornwall and Devon to swear not to take unstamped tin out of the country.
All unstamped matter is turned over to the clerk who has charge of the envelope department.
Unstamped letters can also be posted in this very delightful box, and special delivery stamps can be secured by stating on the blank the number of letters that are to be stamped, and enclosing the money for the same in the special envelope.
So, perhaps, would the collector of unstamped receipts have said to the producers.
Charles Dickens' "Household Narrative of Current Events," published weekly, was a violation of the Act which required news to be a month old when published on unstamped paper.
Every reader found with an unstamped paper in his possession was liable to a fine of L20.
Bright called attention in the House to the Electric Telegraph Company, who were advertising every night in the lobbies news, not an hour old, on unstamped paper, in violation of the law.
It was indeed so high, and the sale of the unstamped publications was so great, that in the years after 1831 there was an actual diminution in the yield of the stamp duty.
An unstamped newspaper now goes at the rate of 1d.
Popular sentiment was largely on the side of the publishers and sellers of unstamped papers, sympathy being so strong that frequently subscriptions for their benefit were raised.
Numerous unstamped papers, which found a ready sale, were issued in various parts of the country, in defiance of the law.
Concurrently with the passing of this Act, the book post rates were reduced with the view of permitting the transmission of unstamped newspapers at low rates of postage.
The measure in fact was intended as much as a protection to the revenue as anything else, for the sale of unstamped newspapers throughout the country had become so extensive that no series of prosecutions was found effectual to put them down.
Donald, for instance, puts stamps on the unstamped letters displayed in the Cambridge post-office, and sends them spinning on their way.
He rang for Driver and gave him the unstamped envelope.
When he had finished the letter, he realised that he had written it on his own heavily embossed writing paper, so he had to dig Driver up and borrow a cheap sheet of unstamped grey paper and write it all out again.
In former times, some of our older readers will remember them, the Government meant to have the metal in each coin of about its unstamped value in the market.
A domestic, unstamped letter will not be forwarded.
He possessed no money, and it would have been folly to attempt posting an unstamped letter addressed to England in a little place like Audierne.
In a few moments a gentleman of middle height paused in front of the shop, noted that it was a tobacconist's, and entered, carrying an unstamped letter with some ostentation.
Resolved: That the people who carry on business as formerly on unstamped Paper.
Two unstamped letters, one to Mrs. Rebecca Washington, the other to Wm.
They did not scruple to send you an unstamped letter, these people, who are of the very best; but perhaps you think the stamp rubbed off in the post?
Stooping, Tregennis secured the penny and handing it to the now openly impatient postman received in exchange his own halfpenny and the unstamped letter addressed to his wife.
No 'm, nothing at all," and Tregennis held up the unstamped letter to the light, and tried in vain to penetrate the thickness of the envelope.
Four weeks of the downstairs visitors had made Mrs. Tregennis quite irritable and short-tempered, and when, towards the end of March, the postman brought an unstamped letter she quite crossly refused to take it in.
This note was received through the Post on Sunday morning in an unstamped envelope.
You can ignore anunstamped enveloped but a stamped envelope compels you to write a letter, when perhaps you don't want to write a letter.
My objection to unstamped envelopes is that they show a meagre spirit and a lack of confidence in you.
Government was getting wearied of the war with the hydra-headed unstamped monster, and at last adopted the only expedient likely to be successful in putting it down, which was to place the higher-class journals in a position to rival them.
The high price of the stamp, fourpence, kept the better journals at sevenpence, but a numerous class of unstamped journals at twopence sprang up in defiance of the law, and were allowed for a time to go on unchecked.
Many of the unstamped papers were printed in Crane Court, Fleet Street; and there, on their several days of publication, the officers of the Somerset House solicitor would watch, ready to seize them immediately they came from the press.
The penalties sought to be recovered by this prosecution are several of L20 each, which the defendant has incurred by publishing certain newspapers called War Chronicle and The War Fly Sheet on unstamped paper.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unstamped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
