[102] Second Report of Select Committee on Postage, p. 149,—Minutes of Evidence, Nos. 8134, 8135: Parliamentary Papers, 1837-8, Vol. XX. Part 2.
[103] Second Report of Select Committee on Postage, p. 303,—Minutes of Evidence, No. 10362: Parliamentary Papers, 1837-8, Vol. XX. Part 2.
[104] Ibid., Minutes of Evidence, No. 10363.
[105] Second Report of Select Committee on Postage, p. 303,—Minutes of Evidence, No. 10364.
[107] Letters of Postmaster-General, February 26 and May 21, 1870: Executive Documents, 41st Cong. 2d Sess., Senate, No. 53, p. 8, and No. 86, p. 2.
[108] Reports of Postmaster-General, December 3, 1868, p. 2, and November 15, 1869, p. 3: Executive Documents, H. of R., No. 1, 40th Cong. 3d Sess., and 41st Cong. 2d Sess.
[109] Report of the Postmaster-General, November 15, 1869, p. 27.
[110] For example, on letters of one half-ounce weight or under, the rate for distances not exceeding five hundred miles was made five cents, and for greater distances ten cents.—Act to prescribe the Rates of Postage, February 23, 1861; Statute I. Ch. 13: Statutes at Large of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America, (Richmond, 1864,) p. 34.
[111] Report of Mr. Fish, Secretary of State, March 10, 1870, with Copy of Convention, November 8, and Letter from Mr. Reed to Mr. Cass, November 10, 1858: Executive Documents, 41st Cong. 2d Sess., Senate, No. 58, pp. 3, 14-17.