Britain, Parliamentary Papers on the Post Office

Session 1871, 9 February - 21 August

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Introductory Notes



Session 1871, 73 volumes

Bills, Public 6 vol.
I - VI
Reports from Committees 7 vol.
VII - XIII
Reports from Commissioners 23 vol.
XIV - XXXVI
Accounts and Papers 37 vol.
XXXVII - LXXIII
List of Bills, Reports, Estimates, Accounts and Papers, Session 1871 (with General Alphabetical Index).
Parliamentary Papers.  List of the bills, reports, estimates, and accounts and papers, printed by order of the House of Commons, and of the papers presented by command, session 1871; with a general alphabetical index thereto.
1871 (515) LXXIII.1, iv + c (list) + 173 (index) p.
PDF  [ProQuest]
http://books.google.com/books?id=-CtcAAAAQAAJ  [Oxford]



20th Parliament of the UK, 3rd Session, 34 & 35 Victoria


Debates

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Match Tax



Bills and Acts

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Bill to grant Duty of Excise on Matches.
Matches. A bill to grant a duty of excise on matches.
1871 (116) III.355, 6 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
The bill passed in April but was not enacted.

1871 (124) IV.565, Regulation of Duties of Postage



Reports and Papers

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Postal cards.  Copy of the contract under which postal cards are supplied.
1871 (401) XXXVII.327

1871 (378) XXXVII, Financial Results of the Transfer of the Telegraphs

1871 (259) XXXVII.339, Rates of Postage

1871 (205) XXXVII.341, Transit times, New York to Queenstown

Return of Number of Post Office Prosecutions and Convictions of Persons accused of Stealing Letters, 1866-70; Number of Registered and Unregistered Letters sent and lost, 1870.
Post Office (lost letters, &c.) Returns showing the number of Post Office prosecutions and convictions of persons accused of stealing letters in each of the last five years; the number of registered letters sent in one year of a recent date, and the number of registered letters lost in said year; and, the number of unregistered letters sent in one year of recent date, and the number of such letters lost in said year.
1871 (217) XXXVII.345, 2 p.; PDF [ProQuest]

Return of Estimated Number of International Letters to and from United States, 1863-70.
Post Office (United States correspondence). Return showing the total estimated number of international letters sent to and received from the United States during the years 1863, 1865, 1866, 1867, 1868, 1869, and 1870, respectively, and the increase or decrease per cent.
1871 (194) XXXVII.347, 2 p.; PDF [ProQuest]

1871 (196) XXXVII.353, Post Office Savings Banks; deposits and expenses

1871 (280) XXXVII.357, Post Office Savings Banks

1871 (305) XXXVII.421, Post Office Savings Banks

1871 (382) LX.869



Command Papers

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Postmaster General: Seventeenth Report.
Seventeenth report of the Postmaster General, on the Post Office.
1871 [C.438] XVII.793, 65 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
http://books.google.com/books?id=BixcAAAAQAAJ  [Oxford]
http://books.google.com/books?id=PTcsAAAAYAAJ  [Harvard]
http://books.google.com/books?id=sBUTAAAAYAAJ  [Harvard]

Report on Reorganisation of Telegraph System of United Kingdom.
Telegraphs. Report by Mr. Scudamore on the re-organization of the telegraph system of the United Kingdom.
1871 [C.304] XXXVII.703, 136 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
Reprinted in <IUP-Posts-and-Telegraphs-5>

1871 [C.269] LXXI.645, Postal Convention with Italy



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