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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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2.
The
Solicitor's
Office,
as
its
name
implies,
deals
with
the
law
business
of
the
Post-Office.
It
gives
employment
to
a
solicitor,
an
assistant-solicitor,
and
four
clerks.
3.
The
Mail
Office
has
to
do
with
all
matters
connected
with
the
transmission
of
mails,
whether
the
conveyance
be
by
railroad,
water,
or
stage-coach.
Attached
to
this
office
are
the
travelling
post-offices
of
the
country,
which
are
under
its
exclusive
management.
The
Mail
Office
arranges
with
the
different
railway
companies
for
the
conveyance
of
the
mails,
in
the
contracts
for
which
are
included
provision
for
the
employment
of
post-offices
fitted
up
in
railway-carriages;
it
also
looks
to
the
proper
performance
of
each
post-office
contract
embracing
mail-conveyance.
The
staff
of
the
Mail
Office
comprises
an
inspector-general
of
mails,
a
deputy
inspector-general,
two
principal
clerks,
and
twenty-one
clerks
in
three
classes.
The
connexion
between
the
Mail
Office
in
London
and
its
important
adjuncts,
the
travelling
post-offices,
is
kept
up
by
a
staff
of
five
inspectors
of
mails
(three
employed
in
England,
one
in
Scotland,
and
one
in
Ireland),
a
supervisor
of
mail-bag
apparatus,
and
several
subordinate
officers.
The
travelling
offices
employ
a
force
of
54
clerks
in
three
classes,
and
139
sorters
in
four
classes.
4.
The
Receiver
and
Accountant-General's
Office
takes
account
of
the
money
of
each
department,
remittances
being
received
here
from
all
the
other
branches
and
each
provincial
town
in
England.
General
accounts
of
revenue
and
expenditure
are
also
kept,
this
office
being
charged
with
the
examination
of
the
postage
and
revenue
accounts
of
each
postmaster.
All
salaries,
pensions,
and
items
of
current
expenditure
are
also
paid
through
this
office.
In
1763,
the
duties
of
these
offices,
then
distinct,
were
performed
by
a
receiver,
an
accountant,
and
four
clerks.
Now,
the
appointments
comprise
the
receiver
and
accountant-general,
a
chief
examiner,
a
chief
cashier,
a
principal
book-keeper,
with
forty-seven
clerks
in
three
classes,
and
nine
messengers.
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