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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
190
The
Money-order
Office
was
available;
the
fees
had
been
greatly
reduced,
and
the
officials,
in
warning
persons
against
sending
coin
in
letters,
strongly
recommended
that
this
Office
should
be
used
for
the
purpose.
Still,
the
number
of
coin-letters
increased,
and
the
number
of
depredations
increased
with
them,
to
the
great
prejudice
of
the
measure.
Mr.
Hill,
whilst
in
the
Treasury,
recommended
a
system
of
registration
of
letters,
which
appears
to
have
been
somewhat
similar
to
a
plan
proposed
by
the
Post-Office
authorities
themselves
in
1838.
A
system
of
registration
was
the
result;
but
the
rate
of
charge
of
one
shilling
per
letter
was
enough
in
itself
to
render
the
entire
arrangement
nugatory.
In
October,
1841,
Lord
Lowther
proposed
to
the
Treasury
that
they
should
let
him
put
down
the
evil
in
another
way,
viz.
that
they
should
allow
him
to
use
his
powers,
under
the
3
&
4
Vict.
c.
96,
sec.
39,
to
establish
a
compulsory
registration
of
letters
supposed
to
contain
coin
or
jewellery,
and
to
make
the
charge
for
such
compulsory
registration
a
shilling
per
letter.
The
Treasury
Lords
referred
the
proposal
to
Mr.
Hill.
He
concurred
in
the
opinion
of
the
Postmaster-General,
and
thought
the
principle
of
compulsory
registration
quite
fair.
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