The History of the British Post Office

by Joseph Clarence Hemmeon

[258] Ibid., 1837-38, xx, pt. 1, 3d rep., p. 10.

[259] Rep. Com., 1837-38, xx, 2d rep., app., p. 3; Parl. Deb., 3d series, xlvii, col. 1231.

[260] Ibid., 3d series, xlvii, coll. 278-84, 293.

[261] Acc. & P., 1841, xxvi, p. 53; 1839, xlvi, p. 568.

[262] Parl. Deb., 3d series, li, col. 227; 3 and 4 Vict., c. 96.

[263] The Rt. Hon. Thomas Spring Rice.

[264] Joyce, pp. 427-28.

[265] Rep. P. G., 1855, p. 65; 1881, app., p. 11; 1891, app., p. 16; 1901, app., p. 25.

[266] Colonial legislatures were given the power in 1849 to establish posts of their own and to fix the inland postal rates (12 and 13 Vict., c. 26).

[267] Rep. P. G., 1892, p. 7.