Britain, Parliamentary Papers, Session 1834

Britain, Parliamentary Papers on the Post Office

Session 1834, 4 February - 15 August

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Introductory Notes

Indexes to Parliamentary Reports and Papers relating to the Post Office and Postage: 1735-1839.
1840 (10) XLII.1.

http://books.google.com/books?id=KF8SAAAAYAAJ [Harvard]
http://books.google.com/books?id=EXJbAAAAQAAJ [Oxford]

A massive fire at Parliament on Oct. 16, 1834, destroyed most of the buildings and old records.

The History of Parliament, The Fire of 1834
Wikipedia, Burning of Parliament, Parliamentary Archives

Session 1834, 51 volumes

Bills, Public	4 vol.	I - IV
Reports from Committees	14 vol.	V - XVIII
Reports from Commissioners	22 vol.	XIX - XL
Finance and Revenue	1 vol.	XLI
Estimates and Accounts	1 vol.	XLII
Accounts and Papers	9 vol.	XLIII - LI

volume contents by title

List of Bills, Reports, Estimates, Accounts and Papers, Session 1834 (with General Alphabetical Index).
List of Sessional Papers, and General Index: Sess. 1834.
1834 (Sess. 1834) LI.311, xxxi + 71 p.
PDF [ProQuest]
http://books.google.com/books?id=1XBbAAAAQAAJ [Oxford]
http://books.google.com/books?id=UkgSAAAAYAAJ [Harvard]

11th Parliament of the UK, 2nd Session, 4 & 5 William IV

Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, third series, vol. 21, vol. 22, vol. 23, vol. 24, vol. 25, appendix, index; transcribed

Table of Statutes; transcribed

The Mirror of Parliament, Session of 1834, vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3, vol. 4, index

Abstract and Summary of the Parliamentary Papers

Journals of the House of Commons, vol. 89, Session 1834, appendix, index

digital version not yet located

Journals of the House of Lords, vol. 66, Session 1834, appendix, index

digital version not yet located

Parliamentary Papers, Table and Index of Public General Acts

digital version not yet located

The Statutes of the United Kingdom, 4 & 5 William IV

Public General Acts, titles, acts, index
Public Local and Personal Acts, titles, short titles, acts
Private and Personal Acts, titles, short titles, acts

Debates

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Bills and Acts

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Bill for abolishing Capital Punishment in Cases of Letter-Stealing, Returning from Transportation and Burglary.
4 Will. IV.--Sess. 1834. A bill for abolishing capital punishments in cases of letter stealing and returning from transportation, and in certain cases of burglary.
1834 (219) I.447, 4 p.; PDF [ProQuest]

Bill for abolishing Capital Punishment in Cases of Letter-Stealing, Returning from Transportation and Burglary (with Amendments by Lords)
5 Will. IV.--Sess. 1834. A bill [with the amendments made by the Lords] intituled, an act for abolishing capital punishment in [cases of letter stealing and] case of returning from transportation.
1834 (552) I.451, 4 p.; PDF [ProQuest]

Bill to amend Act for more effectual Protection of Mail Contractors, Stage Coaches and Common Carriers.
4 Will. IV.--Sess. 1834. A bill to amend an act passed in the first year of His Present Majesty's reign, for the more effectual protection of mail contractors, stage-coach proprietors, and other common carriers for hire, against the loss of or injury to parcels or packages delivered to them for conveyance or custody.
1834 (390) I.455, 4 p.; PDF [ProQuest]

1834 (418) I.459, Packet service

1834 (313) II.73, Stamp Duty paid on admission to the Freedom in Municipal Corporations

1834 (380) II.77, Stamp Duty paid on admission to the Freedom in Municipal Corporations

Bill to regulate Conveyance of Newspapers by Post to British Colonies and Foreign Parts.
5 Will. IV.--Sess. 1834. A bill to regulate the conveyance of printed newspapers by post between the United Kingdom, the British colonies, and foreign parts.
1834 (433) III.181, 10 p.; PDF [ProQuest]

Bill for better regulating Delivery of Letters and Newspapers transmitted by General Post Office.
4 Will. IV.--Sess. 1834. A bill for the better regulating the delivery of letters and newspapers transmitted by the General Post Office.
1834 (210) III.191, 2 p.; PDF [ProQuest]

1834 (287) III.193, Newspapers, Ireland

Bill to alter and amend Acts relative to Postage of Letters for H.M. Dominions in N. America.
4 Will. IV.--Sess. 1834. A bill to repeal at the period within mentioned so much of an act passed in the fifth year of the reign of His Late Majesty King George the Third, intituled,"an act to alter certain rates of postage, and to amend, explain, and enlarge several provisions in an act made in the ninth year of the reign of Queen Anne, and in other acts relating to the revenue of the Post Office," as authorizes the taking of certain rates of inland postage within His Majesty's dominions in North America.
1834 (42) III.445, 4 p.; PDF [ProQuest]

1834 (48) III.449, Liberty of the Press

1834 (528) IV.165, Stamp Duties on Almanacks

1834 (488) IV.169, Boards of Stamps and Taxes

1834 (467) IV.507, Post Roads in Ireland

Reports and Papers

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1834 (101)
1834 (290)
1834 (399)

Select Committee on Steam Communication with India, Report, Minutes of Evidence, Appendix.
Report from the Select Committee on Steam Navigation to India; with the minutes of evidence, appendix and index.
1834 (478) XIV.369, 456 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
http://books.google.com/books?id=oypDAAAAcAAJ [BSB]

1834 (492) XLII.459, Steam Communication with India

Return of Number of Persons committed for selling Unstamped Publications, 1833-34.
Unstamped publications. Return of the number of persons who have been committed by the magistrates for selling unstamped publications, from 27 February 1833.
1834 (199) XLVII.241, 4 p.; PDF [ProQuest]

1834 (85) XLVIII.557, Commissioners of Stamps

1834 (412, 510) XLIX.407, 409, Stamp Duty on Newspapers
http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/10875

1834 (456) XLIX.421, Paper Duty

Return of Instructions under which Postmasters open Letters; Informations received at Post Office, 1832-33; Prosecutions, Fines, and Penalties.
Post-Office. Returns relating to opening of letters, and informations against persons for illegally sending and conveying letters.
1834 (19) XLIX.425, 20 p.; PDF [ProQuest]

Return of Establishment of Post Office in London, Dublin and Edinburgh.
Post Office establishments in London, Dublin, and Edinburgh.
1834 (20) XLIX.445, 8 p.; PDF [ProQuest]

Correspondence on Removal of Post Office Packets from Howth to Kingstown.
Post Office packets and Howth harbour. Correspondence relating to the removal of Post Office packets from Howth to Kingstown.
1834 (126) XLIX.453, 14 p.; PDF [ProQuest]

Return of Packet Establishment at Falmouth.
Packet establishment. Returns of the packet establishment, Falmouth; freights of specie; and passengers conveyed
1834 (130) XLIX.467, 4 p.; PDF [ProQuest]

Statement of Expense of Maintenance of Steam Packet Stations; Memorandum of Duke of Richmond relating to Post Office Steam Packets.
Post Office steam packets. Papers relative to Post Office steam packets.
1834 (156) XLIX.471, 4 p.; PDF [ProQuest]

Returns relating to Establishment of Post Office Packets in Ireland.
Post-Office packets to Ireland. Returns of the number of hours occupied each day in transmitting the mail by His Majesty's packets between Milford and Dunmore East, and also between Liverpool and Kingstown.
1834 (192) XLIX.475, 4 p.; PDF [ProQuest]

Return of Number of Cases in which Letters containing Money have been stolen, 1829-33.
Post Office. Return of cases in which letters containing money, bills, &c. have been secreted or purloined, from 5th January 1829 to 5th January 1834.
1834 (204) XLIX.479, 2 p.; PDF [ProQuest]

Twenty-third Report of Coms. of Revenue, referred to Postmaster General by Minute of Treasury; Letter of Postmaster General.
Post Office. --(1.)-- The twenty-third report of the Commissioners of Revenue Inquiry, so far as relates to the Post Office revenue. --(2.)-- Letter from the Postmaster-General to the Treasury, on the twenty-third report of the Commissioners of Revenue Inquiry.
1834 (222) XLIX.481, 6 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
contents (1840 index, p. II.269)

Return of Names of Packet Vessels lost since Transfer of Packet Establishment to Admiralty.
Post-Office packets. Return of the names and descriptions of the packet vessels that have been lost since the transfer of the packet establishment to the Admiralty.
1834 (538) XLIX.487, 2 p.; PDF [ProQuest]

Minutes of Evidence of Messrs. Attwood and Brocklebank before Coms. of Revenue, relative to Conveyance of Mails by Steam Packets.
Post-Office steam packets. Minutes of evidence of Matthias Attwood and Thomas Brockelbank, Esqrs., before the Commissioners of Revenue Inquiry, relative to the conveyance of mails by steam packets.
1834 (566) XLIX.489, 8 p.; PDF [ProQuest]

1834 (592) LI.151, recommending packets from the west of Ireland

Evidence before Coms. of Revenue Inquiry, referring to Western Harbours of Ireland
Harbours, Ireland. Return to an order of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 23 July 1834;--for, copy of such portions of the evidence taken before the Commissioners of Revenue Inquiry, as is complete, referring to the western harbours of Ireland. (With maps.)
1834 (592) LI.165, 75 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
(Discussion of a packet harbour on the south-west coast of Ireland.)

Command Papers

Papers relating to Management of Post Office Dept.
Papers relating to the Post-Office. 1834.
1834 [48] XLIX.497, 80 p.; PDF [ProQuest]

contents (1840 index, p. II.269-270)

p. 1, 2, title, index
p. 3-6, An Account of the Principal Improvements which have taken place by order of the Postmaster General during the last Three Years; 24 Feb. 1834.
p. 7-8, A Comparative Statement of the Expense of the Post-Office Establishment, as it would have been according to the Schedules to the Reports of the Commissioners of Revenue Inquiry, and of the Actual Charge of the present Establishment; 24 Feb. 1834.
p. 9-11, Letter from the Postmaster General to the Lords of the Treasury, with the Comparative Statement of the Expense, according to the Schedules of the Commissioners of Revenue Inquiry, and of the actual Establishment; 1 March 1834.
p. 13-16, Note from the Postmaster General to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the Negotiation with France; 16 July 1833.
p. 17-23, Treaty for the Conveyance of Letters between England and France; 14 June 1833.
p. 25-31, Letter to Treasury on the Consolidation of the Account Branches; 11 January 1831.
p. 33-47, Letter to Treasury on the Provisional Establishment in Dublin; 15 February 1831, 21 February 1831.
p. 49-52, Letter to Treasury on the Establishment in Edinburgh; 1 March 1831.
p. 53-76, Letter to Treasury on the Establishment, London; 12 March 1832.
p. 77-78, Letter to Treasury on the Acceleration of the Delivery of Letters in London; 30 January 1834.
p. 79, Account of Gross and Net Revenue and Charges of Management in Great Britain for the last Ten Years, with Amount of Loss from Arrears of Postmasters in that Period; 21 Feb. 1834.

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