Combined post and telegraph offices, Introduction of, 41 Commission of 1850, 1, 21, 178 Compiler of Post Office Accounts, 36, 72 Compulsory prepayment of postage in all cases, Rejection of, 25 Constantinople, Field service in, 174 Construction and maintenance of postal vans, 63 Consultations of 24th March, 1766, Minutes of, 12 Consultations of 17th January, 1774, Extract from, 191 Continuous delivery system, 103 Control of the Department, 2, 30, 31 Conventions with Indian States, 114 Copper tickets, or tokens for postal purposes, 14, 178, 194 Cost of carrying mails on railways, 62 Counterfeit stamps, 39, 42 Courtney, Mr., 21 Crises in the Savings Bank, 84 Custom-House, Turkish, at Bagdad and Basra, 140, 146 Customs regulations, 36 Cyprus, 211 Dak bungalows, 17, 196 Dak system, 195 Dead Letter Office, 26 Delivery centres, 102 Delivery of mails, 102 Delivery system, Continuous, 103 Department, Control of the, 2, 30, 31 Department, never regarded as revenue-producing, 9, 22 Department, Organization of the, 3, 30, 31 Depot, Base Postal, 175 Deputy Postmaster, 155, 193 Desert post, The, 122, 137, 139 Direction, Organization of the, 2 Director-General of the Post Office, First, 36 Distance, Uniformity of postage irrespective of, 24, 32, 39, 49 District dawk stamps, Scinde, 31, 178 District Post, 16, 17 District Post, Abolition of, 20 District Savings Banks, 81 Dromedary post, 137, 139 Early Postal Regulations, 26 East Africa, Field service in, 174 East Persian Cordon, 174 Egypt during the Great War, Field service in, 171, 173 Egypt Expeditionary Force, 212 Encouragement of prepayment of postage, 34 England, Parcel post with, 39, 50 English mail, 30, 121, 127, 142 Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company, 138, 142, 144 European port for reception and despatch of Indian mails, 124, 182 Experimental post offices, 20, 96 Ferry charges upon Railway steamers, 63, 65 Field Post Office, The, 165 Field post offices, 166 Field Service Manual, 166 Field service, Military rank on, 166 Field service uniform, 166 Fines incurred under Post Office Acts, 29 Fining, 37 First appointment of a Postmaster-General, 14 First Director-General of the Post Office, 36 Five-year cash certificates, 87 Forbes, Mr., 21 Force in East Persia, 174 Foreign money orders, 73 Foreign parcel post, 51 France, Field service in, 171 Franking, 35 Free postage, Abolition of privilege of, 35 Free postage, Grant of privilege of, to certain persons, 27 Gallipoli, Field service in, 173 Great War, 170, 171 Great War, Effect of, upon savings bank balances, 87 Guarantee Fund, Post Office, 236 Haulage charges, 60, 67 Hazara Field Force, Black Mountain or, 215 Head Office, 3 Horse transit and bullock train, 153, 168, 196, 206