[48] Post-Office Reform, (4th edit.,) pp. 12-14. [49] Ibid., p. 44. [50] Debates, June 15 and December 18, 1837: Mirror of Parliament, cited in Encyclopædia Britannica, (8th edit.,) Vol. XVIII. p. 411. [51] Second Report from Select Committee on Postage, p. 349,--Minutes of Evidence, Nos. 10908, 10911: Parliamentary Papers, 1837-8, Vol. XX. Part 2. [52] Vol. LXIV. p. 541, October, 1839. [53] Post-Office Reform, (4th edit.,) p. 6. [54] See the full list in Appendix (A) to Second Report. [55] Second Report, pp. 147, 148, 149,--Minutes of Evidence, Nos. 8126, 8130, 8134. [56] Ibid., p. 52,--Minutes of Evidence, No. 6728. [57] Second Report, p. 305,--Minutes of Evidence, No. 10378. [58] Debate on the Budget, July 5, 1839: Hansard, 3d Ser., Vol. XLVIII. col. 1373. [59] Ibid., col. 1384. [60] Speech on the Postage Duties Bill, July 22, 1839: Hansard, 3d Ser., Vol. XLIX. coll. 638-9. [61] Speech on Uniform Penny Postage, July 12, 1839: Hansard, 3d Ser., Vol. XLIX. col. 304. [62] Debate on the Budget, July 5, 1839: Hansard, 3d Ser., Vol. XLVIII. coll. 1408, 1409. [63] Treasury Warrants, November 22 and December 27, 1839: Parliamentary Papers, 1840, Vol. XLIV. No. 17. [64] Section LVI. [65] First Report from Select Committee on Postage, p. 16,--Minutes of Evidence, No. 135: Parliamentary Papers, 1837-8, Vol. XX. Part 1. [66] Third Report from Select Committee on Postage, p. 62: Parliamentary Papers, 1837-8, Vol. XX. Part 1. [67] In 1839, 75,907,572; in 1840, 168,768,344: First Report of Postmaster-General, Appendix (D), p. 65: Parliamentary Papers, 1854-5, Vol. XX. [68] Ibid., Appendix (F), p. 68. [69] Post-Office Reform, (4th edit.,) pp. 26, 44. [70] Third Report of Postmaster-General, Appendix (B), (D), (G), pp. 36, 38, 47: Parliamentary Papers, 1857, Vol. IV. [71] Results of the New Postage Arrangements: Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. IV. p. 96, July, 1841. [72] Fraser’s Magazine, September, 1862,--Vol. LXVI. p. 335. [73] Notes of a Traveller, (London, 1842,) pp. 169, 170. [74] For this testimony, besides the works cited above, see Lewins, Her Majesty’s Mails, (2d edit.,) pp. 198-201; and Report of Select Committee on Postage, August, 1843, pp. 12-15: Parliamentary Papers, 1843, Vol. VIII. [75] Lewins, Her Majesty’s Mails, (2d edit.,) pp. 191-4. [76] Report, November 16, 1869, p. 23: Executive Documents, 41st Cong. 2d Sess., H. of R., No. 1, Part 1. [77] Statutes at Large, Vol. I. pp. 235, 734; III. 264; IV. 105; V. 733; IX. 588; X. 641-2; XII. 705-6; XIII. 505, 507. [78] Ibid., Vol. V. p. 749; XVI. 783, 833, 869. [79] Ibid., Vol. XVI. p. 872. Report of Postmaster-General, Nov. 15, 1869, p. 14. [80] Statutes at Large, Vol. XIII. p. 337; XVI. 1096. Report of the Postmaster-General, December 3, 1868, p. 18. [81] Act, July 1, 1864, Sec. 8: Statutes at Large, Vol. XIII. p. 337. [82] History of the Post-Office: Bankers’ Magazine, (New York,) December, 1857, Vol. XII. p. 443.