The item below originated from Langport but was cancelled in Taunton and was franked with a 3d stamp. It is a "Notice of Objection" which is treated as a special sort of Registered item.
From the GBPS website: The Parliamentary Voters Registration Act 1843 (6 & 7 Vict c.18) laid out detailed rules for the preparation and maintenance of lists of registered voters. Clause 100 allowed for objections to a name on the list (on the grounds that they did not meet the qualifications to vote) to be sent by post. Such a "Notice of Objection" was to be brought to any Money Order post office in duplicate, one copy to be sent registered to the person objected to, the other to be datestamped and returned to the sender as proof of posting. The Act specified that the Notices were to be registered, at a concessionary registration fee of not more than 2d (in addition to postage).
What is not so clear is why the Notice of Objection was processed in Taunton rather than in Langport. Langport was a Money Order office from March 1847, however it did come under Taunton from 1855.
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