| IF NOT EXCEEDING IN WEIGHT. +------+------+------+------+------+------+------ FOR DISTANCES. |20 |100 |200 |300 |400 |500 |600 |tolas.|tolas.|tolas.|tolas.|tolas.|tolas.|tolas. ------------------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------ Miles. |Rs. a.|Rs. a.|Rs. a.|Rs. a.|Rs. a.|Rs. a.|Rs. a. Not exceeding 100 |0 2 |0 4 |0 8 | 0 12 | 1 0 | 1 4 | 1 8 Not exceeding 300 |0 6 |0 12 |1 8 | 2 4 | 3 0 | 3 12 | 4 8 Not exceeding 600 |0 12 |1 8 |3 0 | 4 8 | 6 0 | 7 8 | 9 0 Not exceeding 900 |1 2 |2 4 |4 8 | 6 12 | 9 0 |11 4 |13 8 Not exceeding 1200|1 8 |3 0 |6 0 | 9 0 |12 0 |15 0 |18 0 Exceeding 1200 |1 14 |3 12 |7 8 |11 4 |15 0 |18 12 |22 8 Books, pamphlets, packets of newspapers and of printed and engraved papers were charged at the following rates by bhangy post:-- Not exceeding 20 tolas 1 anna Exceeding 20 tolas and not exceeding 40 tolas 2 annas For every 20 tolas above 40 tolas 1 anna provided that the total weight must not exceed 120 tolas. The postage on bhangy parcels was calculated by the most elaborate Polymetrical Tables which were supplied to all post offices in English and Vernacular. Many a grievous complaint was laid by members of the public against the strange methods employed by the Post Office in calculating the distance between two places. The sender of a parcel naturally considered that he should pay for the shortest distance between the place of despatch and the place of receipt, but not so the Post Office. It decided that the "postal route," however circuitous, was the one by which postage should be calculated. Letters were ordinarily limited to 12 tolas in weight, but by Act XX of 1838 the weight had been raised to 30 tolas upon lines where no bhangy post existed; this limit was now raised to 40 tolas (1 lb.) and, where both a bhangy and letter post were conveyed in the same carriage, a special prohibition was made that letters or packets of newspapers of less than 12 tolas weight must not be sent by bhangy post under penalty of a fine of Rs.50 for each offence. This clause was evidently introduced on account of the charge made by the railway companies for the carriage of bhangy parcels.