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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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The
Surveyor's
Department
is
the
connecting
medium
between
the
metropolitan
offices
and
the
post-offices
in
provincial
towns.
The
postmasters
of
the
latter
are
under
the
immediate
supervision
of
the
surveyor
of
the
district
in
which
the
towns
are
situate,
and
it
is
to
this
superior
officer
that
they
are
primarily
responsible
for
the
efficient
working
and
discipline
of
their
respective
staff
of
officers.
Among
the
many
responsible
duties
of
the
surveyors,
may
be
mentioned[148]
those
of
visiting
periodically
each
office
in
their
district,
to
remedy,
where
they
can,
all
defects
in
the
working
of
the
postal
system;
to
remove,
when
possible,
all
just
grounds
of
complaint
on
the
part
of
the
public;
"to
give
to
the
correspondence
of
their
district
increased
celerity,
regularity,
and
security"
when
opportunity
offers,
and
to
arrange
for
contracts
with
these
objects.
The
Act
of
Queen
Anne
provided
for
the
appointment
of
one
surveyor
to
the
Post-Office,
whose
duties
it
should
be
to
make
proper
surveys
of
post-roads.
Little
more
than
a
hundred
years
ago,
one
of
these
functionaries
was
sufficient
to
compass
the
duty
of
surveyor
in
England.
There
are
now
thirteen
surveyors
in
the
United
Kingdom,[149]
nine
of
whom
are
located
in
England,
two
in
Ireland,
and
two
in
Scotland.
These
principal
officers
are
assisted
in
their
duties
by
thirty-two
"surveyors'
clerks,"
arranged
in
two
classes,
and
thirteen
stationary
clerks.
To
this
staff
must
also
be
added
thirty-three
"clerks
in
charge,"
in
two
classes,
who
are
under
the
direction
of
the
surveyors,
and
whose
principal
duty
consists
in
supplying
temporarily
the
position
of
postmaster,
in
case
of
vacancies
occurring
through
deaths,
removals,
&c.
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