[820] Parl. Deb., 3d ser., ccxxviii, coll. 172 f.; Rep. Com., 1876, xiii, 357, pp. i-xiii, 147, 240.
[821] Rep. P. G., 1891, app., p. 40; 1901, app., p. 57; 1907, app., p. 61.
[822] Ibid., 1881, app., p. 53; 1891, app., p. 66; 1901, app., p. 83; 1905, app., p. 99.
[823] Between 1870, when the telegraphs were taken over by the state, and 1873, the number of employees was more than doubled, although, during the same period, the number of messages—not including news messages—increased only from ten to fifteen millions (Rep. Com., 1876, xiii, 357, pp. 18, 90, 232, 240).
[824] Rep. P. G., 1895, pp. 37-38.
The proportion of the amount spent on salaries and wages which in 1881, before Mr. Fawcett's revision, stood at about 55 per cent, increased, as a result of that revision and Mr. Raikes' revision in 1890, to about 65 per cent.
[825] Parl. Deb., 4th ser., clix, col. 389; Economist, Sept. 21, 1907, p. 1576.
[826] Rep. Com., 1895, xiii, 350, pp. 1-6; Law Reports, Queen's Bench Division, vi, p. 244; Parl. Deb., 3d ser., cclxxxviii, col. 1053.
[827] Rep. P. G., 1883, p. 6; 1885, p. 9; 1886, p. 10; Rep. Com., 1898, xii, 383, pp. 3, 57; 1895, xiii, 350, pp. 1-6; Parl. Deb., 3d ser., cclxxii, col. 712; cclxxxviii, coll. 1056-57, 1060-61; cclxxxix, coll. 82.
[828] Rep. Com., 1884-85, xii, p. 63; 1892, xvii, 278, sess. 1, pp. 3-5; 1895, xiii, 350, pp. 1-6, 92, 188-93; 1898, xii, 383, p. 12; Parl. Deb., 3d ser., cclxxxviii, coll. 1052 f.; cccxxxvi, col. 1809; cccxxxvii, col. 1435; cccxlvi, col. 908.