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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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The
Secretary
of
the
Post-Office
holds
the
highest
fixed
appointment
in
the
establishment,
and
may
be
regarded,
therefore,
as
the
responsible
adviser
of
the
Postmaster-General.
The
principal
secretaries
during
the
century
have
been
Francis
Freeling,
Esq.
(1797),
created
a
baronet
in
1828;
Lieut.-Colonel
William
Leader
Maberly
(1836);
Rowland
Hill,
Esq.
(1856),
knighted
in
1860;
and,
as
at
present,
John
Tilley,
Esq.
(1864).[144]
The
chief
office
in
London
is
divided
into
six
principal
departments,
each
under
the
charge
of
a
chief
officer.
These
heads
of
departments
are
severally
responsible
to
the
Postmaster-General
for
the
efficiency
and
discipline
of
their
respective
branches.
Something
like
the
same
arrangement,
though
on
a
much
smaller
scale,
is
preserved
in
the
less-important
chief
offices
of
Edinburgh
and
Dublin.
The
branches
in
question
consist
of--(1)
The
Secretary's
Office;
(2)
The
Solicitor's
Office;
(3)
The
Mail
Office;
(4)
The
Receiver
and
Accountant-General's
Office;
(5)
The
Money-order
Office;
and
(6)
The
Circulation
Office.
1.
The
Secretary's
Office
exercises
a
general
surveillance
over
all
the
other
departments
of
the
Post-Office,
including,
of
course,
all
provincial
offices.
It
is
the
medium
of
communication
with
the
Lords
of
the
Treasury,
and
also
with
the
public.
All
important
matters
originating
in
other
branches,
or
in
country
offices,
pass
through
this
office
to
the
Postmaster-General,
returning
through
the
same
channel.
In
1763,
the
secretaries
of
the
Post-Office
had
one
clerk
and
two
supernumerary
clerks
assigned
to
them.
Now,
the
three
secretaries
are
assisted
in
their
duties
by
one
chief
clerk,
one
principal
clerk
for
foreign
and
colonial
business,
sixteen
senior
clerks,
and
thirty-eight
clerks
in
other
two
classes.
There
is
also
a
force
of
nineteen
supplementary
clerks,
five
official
paper-keepers,
and
nineteen
messengers.[145]
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