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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
62
£
s.
d.
Product
of
foreign
mails
for
the
year
17,805
1
7
The
King's
Majesty
paid
for
his
foreign
letters
178
18
4
Product
of
Harwich
packet-boats
950
5
4
The
Inland
window
money
amounted
to
870
4
2
The
letter-receivers'
money
313
19
8
The
letter-carriers'
money
30,497
10
0
The
Postmaster's
money
37,819
8
11
Officers
were
fined
to
the
extent
of
13
0
0
The
profits
of
the
Irish
Office
were
2,419
14
0
Ditto
Penny-Post
800
0
0
The
Scotch
Office
appears
not
only
not
to
have
brought
in
any
profits,
but
we
find
an
item
of
absolute
loss
on
the
exchange
of
money
with
Edinburgh
to
the
extent
of
210l.
10s.
10d.
Amongst
the
more
interesting
items
of
expenditure
we
notice
that--
£
s.
d.
The
six
clerks
in
the
Foreign
Office
and
about
twenty
clerks
belonging
to
other
departments
received
per
annum
60
0
0
The
salary
of
the
Postmaster-General
was
1,500
0
0
Two
officers
had
200l.
per
annum,
a
third
had
150l.,
and
a
fourth
had
100l.--all
four,
doubtless,
heads
of
departments
450
0
0
There
were
eight
letter-receivers
in
London,
viz.
at
Gray's
Inn,
at
Temple
Bar,
at
King
Street,
at
Westminster,
in
Holborn,
in
Covent
Garden,
in
Pall
Mall,
and
in
the
Strand
two
offices,
whose
yearly
salaries
amounted
in
all
to
110
6
8
The
yearly
salaries
of
the
whole
body
of
letter-carriers
1,338
15
0
The
salaries
of
the
deputy-postmasters
5,639
6
0
The
entire
total
expenditure
was
13,509l.
6s.
8d.
"Thus
we
find,"
adds
Mr.
Scudamore,
"that
while
the
'whole
net
produce'
of
the
establishment
for
a
year
was
not
equal
to
the
sum
which
we
derive
from
the
commission
on
money-orders
in
a
year
(Mr.
Scudamore
is
writing
of
1854),
or
to
the
present
'net
produce'
of
the
single
town
of
Liverpool,
so
also,
the
whole
expenditure
of
the
whole
establishment
for
a
year
was
but
a
little
larger
than
the
sum
which
we
now
pay
once
a
month
for
salaries
to
the
clerks
of
the
London
Office
alone."
If
we
subtract
the
total
expenditure
from
the
"whole
net
produce,"
as
it
is
called,
we
get
a
sum
exceeding
62,000l.
as
the
entire
net
receipts
of
the
Post-Office
for
the
year
1686-7.
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