Britain, Parliamentary Papers on the Post Office

Session 1844, 1 February - 5 September

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Introductory Notes



Session 1844, 51 volumes

Bills, Public 4 vol.
I - IV
Reports from Committees 10 vol.
V - XIV
Reports from Commissioners 17 vol.
XV - XXXI
Accounts and Papers 20 vol.
XXXII - LI
List of Bills, Reports, Estimates, Accounts and Papers, Session 1844 (with General Alphabetical Index).
List of Sessional Papers, and General Index: Sess. 1844.
1844 (Sess. 1844) LI.521, liv (list) + 104 (index) p.
PDF [ProQuest]



14th Parliament of the UK, 4th Session, 7 & 8 Victoria



Debates

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Bills and Acts

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1844 (462) I.36, Commissioner of Stamps and Taxes
1844 (520) I.85, Duties on books and engravings

1844 (526) IV.209, Duties on Post Horses
http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/11818

Bill for better Regulation of Colonial Posts.
Colonial postage. A bill for the better regulation of colonial posts.
1844 (438) IV.213, 6 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
1844 (248) IV.579, Stamp Duties on Sea Insurances
1844 (270) IV.587, Stamp Duties on Sea Insurances
1844 (256) IV.737, Post Roads in Ireland



Reports and Papers

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1844 (205)
1844 (333)
1844 (335)
1844 (72)

Select Committee on Railroad Communication and Carriage of Mails. Report, Minutes of Evidence, Appendix, Index.
Report from the Select Committee on Railroad Communication; together with the minutes of evidence, appendix, and index.
1837-38 (257) XVI.341, 172 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
reprinted, report only, 1844 (25) XI.731, 2 p.; PDF [ProQuest]

Secret Committee of House of Lords relative to Law in respect to opening and detaining Letters at Post Office.
Brought from the Lords, 7 August 1844. Report from the Secret Committee of the House of Lords relative to the Post Office.
1844 (601) XIV.501, 4 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
http://books.google.com/books?id=QXRbAAAAQAAJ  [Oxford]
http://books.google.com/books?id=hWkSAAAAYAAJ  [Harvard]

Secret Committee on Law in respect to opening and detaining Letters at General Post Office, Report, Appendix.
Report from the Secret Committee on the Post Office; together with the appendix.
1844 (582) XIV.505, 119 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
http://books.google.com/books?id=QXRbAAAAQAAJ  [Oxford]
http://books.google.com/books?id=hWkSAAAAYAAJ  [Harvard]
http://books.google.com/books?id=ezchAAAAYAAJ  [Harvard]  (with additional notes by C.W. Ernst)
    same, http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009735500
Appendix, Documents relating to the History of the Post Office (link).

Account of Sums paid into Stamp Office in Great Britain and Ireland on Insurance from Fire, 1843. Fire insurance. Accounts of all sums paid into the Stamp Office for duty by each insurance office in Great Britain and Ireland, on insurance from fire, for the quarters ending severally 25 March, 24 June, 29 September, and 25 December 1843; and of the sums insured by each office on farming stock, exempt from duty, for the like periods;--(in continuation of Parl. Paper, no. 212, of sess. 1843.)
1844 (333) XXXII.353, 8 p.; PDF [ProQuest]

1844 (55) XXXII.419, Stamp Duty on Newspapers (series)
Reprinted in <IUP-Newspapers-2>, p. 163-182.

Return of Number of Chargeable Letters through London Post Office; gross and net Post Office Revenue; Payments for Conveyance of Mails; Return of Money Orders, 1839-43.
Post Office. Returns of the number of chargeable letters which have passed through the London General Post-Office since 5th December 1839, together with other returns on the subject of postage.
1844 (207) XLV.397, 22 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
http://books.google.com/books?id=dWsSAAAAYAAJ  [Oxford]

Treasury Minute, December 1839, on Preparation and Application of Postage Stamps.
Postage. Copy of so much of the Treasury minute of the 26th day of December 1839, respecting the mode of carrying out the Penny Postage Act, as relates to the preparation and application of postage stamps.
1844 (127) XLV.419, 2 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
http://books.google.com/books?id=dWsSAAAAYAAJ  [Oxford]

Returns of Names of Postmasters General; and Sale of Postage-free Paper.
Postmasters general.--Postage. Return of the names, rank, and date of appointment of the postmasters-general, from the earliest to the present time. Return of the names of the persons, and the towns, to which half-sheets of postage-free paper will be sent for sale.
1844 (362) XLV.421, 10 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
http://books.google.com/books?id=dWsSAAAAYAAJ  [Oxford]

Return of Number of Mails despatched to and from Islands of Scilly, 1842-43.
Scilly mails. A return of the number of mails despatched, outwards and inwards, to and from the Islands of Scilly, from the 1st day of May 1812 to the 1st day of May 1843.
1844 (88) XLV.431, 2 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
http://books.google.com/books?id=dWsSAAAAYAAJ  [Oxford]

Communications respecting Post Office Arrangements at Islands of Scilly.
Scilly Islands mails. Copies of all communications addressed to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, respecting the Post-Office arrangements at the Islands of Scilly, with the answers returned thereto, &c.
1844 (542) XLV.433, 36 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
http://books.google.com/books?id=dWsSAAAAYAAJ  [Oxford]



Command Papers

Postage Convention between General Post Office of United Kingdom and General Post Office of Kingdom of Netherlands.
Postage convention, between the General Post Office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the General Post Office of the kingdom of the Netherlands.
1844 [526] LI.475, 40 p.; PDF [ProQuest]



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