[72] Fraser’s Magazine, September, 1862,—Vol. LXVI. p. 335.
[73] Notes of a Traveller, (London, 1842,) pp. 169, 170.
[74] For this testimony, besides the works cited above, see Lewins, Her Majesty’s Mails, (2d edit.,) pp. 198-201; and Report of Select Committee on Postage, August, 1843, pp. 12-15: Parliamentary Papers, 1843, Vol. VIII.
[75] Lewins, Her Majesty’s Mails, (2d edit.,) pp. 191-4.
[76] Report, November 16, 1869, p. 23: Executive Documents, 41st Cong. 2d Sess., H. of R., No. 1, Part 1.
[77] Statutes at Large, Vol. I. pp. 235, 734; III. 264; IV. 105; V. 733; IX. 588; X. 641-2; XII. 705-6; XIII. 505, 507.
[78] Ibid., Vol. V. p. 749; XVI. 783, 833, 869.
[79] Ibid., Vol. XVI. p. 872. Report of Postmaster-General, Nov. 15, 1869, p. 14.
[80] Statutes at Large, Vol. XIII. p. 337; XVI. 1096. Report of the Postmaster-General, December 3, 1868, p. 18.
[81] Act, July 1, 1864, Sec. 8: Statutes at Large, Vol. XIII. p. 337.