Britain, Parliamentary Papers on the Post Office

Session 1873, 6 February - 5 August

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Introductory Notes



Session 1873, 76 volumes

Bills, Public 6 vol.
I - VI
Reports from Committees 11 vol.
VII - XVII
Reports from Commissioners 21 vol.
XVIII - XXXVIII
Accounts and Papers 38 vol.
XXXIX - LXXVI
List of Bills, Reports, Estimates, Accounts and Papers, Session 1873 (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 1873; with a general alphabetical index thereto.
1873 (424) LXXVI.1, iv + lxxxviii (list) + 162 (index) p.
PDF  [ProQuest]
http://books.google.com/books?id=uDVcAAAAQAAJ  [Oxford]



20th Parliament of the UK, 5th Session, 36 & 37 Victoria


Debates

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Bills and Acts

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Reports and Papers

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1873 (264)

1873 (334) IX.233, Cape of Good Hope and Zanzibar mail contracts

Returns of Number of Letters carried by Mail Packets of Union Steamship Company between United Kingdom and Cape of Good Hope, 1868-72.
Mails (Cape of Good Hope). Returns of the estimated number of letters carried by the mail packets of the Union Steam Ship Company between the United Kingdom and the Cape of Good Hope, from May 1868 to the end of 1872:--and, of the number of registered letters forwarded from the Cape of Good Hope to the United Kingdom by the mail packets of the Union Steam Ship Company, or by vessels belonging to other parties, during the years 1871 and 1872, distinguishing the number forwarded on each voyage.
1873 (173) XXXIX.445, 4 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
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1873 (341) XXXIX.507, Mail Trains, Ireland

1873 (191) XXXIX.511, Letter-Carriers, London

1873 (137) XXXIX.521, Post Office Savings Banks; deposits and expenses

Return of Amounts paid by Post Office to Railway and Telegraph Companies in United Kingdom for Purchase of Interests in Telegraph Systems worked over various Railways.
Telegraph companies (purchase). Returns of the amount hitherto paid by the Post Office to telegraph companies in the United Kingdom, for the purchase of their interests in the telegraph systems worked over various railways in England, Ireland, and Scotland; of the amounts claimed by railway companies in the United Kingdom against the Post Office in respect of the reversionary or other interests of such companies in the telegraph systems worked over their railways; &c.
1873 (316) XXXIX.761, 18 p.; PDF [ProQuest]



Command Papers

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Postmaster General: Nineteenth Report.
Nineteenth report of the Postmaster General, on the Post Office.
1873 [C.816] XXI.353, 42 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
http://books.google.com/books?id=tipcAAAAQAAJ  [Oxford]
http://books.google.com/books?id=PTcsAAAAYAAJ  [Harvard]

Correspondence respecting Affairs of Cape of Good Hope.
Further correspondence respecting the affairs of the Cape of Good Hope.
1873 [C.732] XLIX.239, 171 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
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(a few small items regarding the post office in Griqualand West)



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