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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
254
[153]
For
fuller
information
on
this
head,
see
Appendix,
to
the
Postmaster-General's
First
Report,
pp.
71-4.
The
following
forms
part
of
a
later
Document
(Ninth
Report,
1862-3),
and
is
interesting
enough
to
be
quoted
entire:
"Owing
to
the
successful
measures
which
the
Department
has
adopted
by
means
of
bonds,
frequent
supervision,
and
care
in
the
selection
of
persons
admitted
into
the
service,
and
afterwards
promoted
therein,
very
few
losses
have
occurred,
of
late
years
at
least,
through
defalcation.
More
than
twenty
years
ago,
however,
a
postmaster
who
owed
the
office
2,000l.
but
who
had
given
security
for
only
a
part
of
that
sum,
absconded,
leaving
an
unpaid
debt
of
upwards
of
1,000l.
The
recovery
of
the
debt
had
long
been
considered
hopeless,
but
a
short
time
ago
a
letter
was
unexpectedly
received
from
the
postmaster's
son
enclosing
a
remittance
in
payment
of
part
of
his
father's
debt,
and
expressing
a
hope
that
after
a
time
he
should
be
able
to
pay
the
remainder--a
hope
which
was
soon
realized,
every
farthing
of
the
debt
having
now
been
discharged,
in
a
manner
most
creditable
to
the
gentleman
concerned."
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