employed at a fixed yearly salary and 15_s._ a day when travelling. They superintended the coachmen and guards, investigated complaints, delays, and accidents, and made preliminary agreements in contracting for coaches.[228] The majority of the Irish coaches had paid tolls ever since they had been introduced. Generally they were paid by the Post Office at stated intervals. The total distance travelled by mail-coaches in Ireland in 1829 was 2160 miles each day, by mail-carts 2533 miles. The number of guards employed was eighty-five, receiving £2935 a year. The Irish coaches were allowed to carry four outside passengers.[229] [225] _Parl. Papers_, 1811, _Rep. Com._, p. 9; _Rep. Commrs._, 1837, xxxiv, 7th rep., apps. 5, 7, 26, p. 71; London _Times_, 1832, Apr. 27, p. 2; _Acc. & P._, 1837-38, xlv, 265, p. 3: 265, p. 4; _Rep. Commrs._, 1829, xi, p. 294. [226] _Parl. Papers_, 1811, _Rep. Com._, pp. 10, 32, 50, 51. [227] _Ibid._, 1811, _Rep. Com._, p. 1; _Parl. Deb._, 1st ser., xix, col. 683; Wm. IV and I Vict., c. 33. [228] _Rep. Commrs._, 1829, xi, p. 34; _ibid._, 1837, xxxiv, 7th rep., app., nos. 30, 31. [229] _Parl. Papers_, 1811, _Rep. Com._, p. 1; 43 Geo. III, c. 28; _Rep. Com._, 1831-32, xvii, pp. 336, 338, 339; _Rep. Commrs._, 1837, xxxiv, 7th rep., app., no. 31. The first railway in England over which mails were carried was operated between Manchester and Liverpool. In 1838 the Government paid the Grand Junction Railway 5-7/8_d._ a single mile for the conveyance of its mails. At the same time the average rate by the coaches was 2-1/8_d._ a single mile. On the London and Birmingham Railway when a special Post Office carriage was used, 7-1/2_d._ was paid. When the ordinary mail-coach was carried on trucks the rate was 4-1/4_d._ When a regular railway carriage was used, the rate was 2-1/2_d._ a mile for one third of a carriage.[230] For the year ending 5th January, 1839, the Post Office paid £105,107 for the conveyance of mails by coaches and £9883 to the railways. For the next official year, the figures had risen to £109,246 and £39,724.[231] [230] _Ibid._, 1837, xxxiv, 7th rep., app., nos. 12, 13. The first day coach left London in 1837, connecting at Birmingham with the railway to Hartford, Cheshire. (London _Times_, 1837, Sept. 5, p. 4; _Rep. Com._, 1837-38, xx, pts. 1 and 2, 2d rep., app. E, No. 48; pt. 1, p. 469, no. 17.) [231] _Acc. & P._, 1841, xxvi, 221, no. 5.