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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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At
the
beginning
of
the
present
century
an
improvement
was
carried
out.
It
was
seen
that
the
indiscriminate
issue
of
the
warrants
was
stimulated
and
fostered
by
the
fact
that
no
account
was
kept
of
them.
As
a
means
of
placing
a
necessary
check
upon
the
officers,
Lord
Spencer,
then
Home
Secretary,
introduced
the
custom
in
1806,
of
recording
the
dates
of
all
warrants
granted,
and
the
purposes
for
which
they
were
issued.
Since
the
year
1822,
the
whole
of
the
warrants
themselves
have
been
preserved
at
the
Home
Office.
In
comparing
the
number
of
warrants
issued
by
different
Home
Secretaries
during
the
present
century,
we
find
that
Sir
James
Graham
enjoys
the
unenviable
notoriety
of
having
granted
the
greatest
number,
though
the
fact
is
partly
explained
by
the
commotion
which
the
Chartists
made
in
the
north
of
England,
1842-3.
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