The Examination of JACKSON GOLDING, Esq.; taken upon Oath, the 20th of March, 26th and 27th of April 1809. This Examinant faith, That he is Comptroller of the Sorting Office, to which he was appointed by Patent in the year The Sorting Officc has been lately formed into two distinct Offices, the one denominated the Inland Office, for the sorting, delivery, and dispatch of the Inland Letters, the other the Britifh Mail Office, for the sorting, delivery, and dispatch of the Britifh Mails. • Of this latter Offic'e Examinant is nfting Comptroller, and does duty therein occafionally, but he does 110 duty in the Inland Office, though the Patent appointing him Comptroller of the Sorting Office has not been revoked by Government. Examinant is likewife chief Clerk in the Treasurer's Office, in which he does duty daily. The establishment of the Britifh Mail Office cenfifts of Examinant as principal, one Clerk, one senior, and two junior Sorters, and the bufinefs as to forting, delivering, and dispatch, is conducted on the fame principles as in the Inland Office. In the Britifh Mail Office two Accounts are kept, one for the Britifh Letters hy Holyhead inwards, the other for the British Letters by Holyhead outwards. In the Account of the Britifh Letters by Holyhead inwards, is entered the amount ^ the Pottage on the Letters received bv the Mail, as appears from the Dockets accompanying it, the amount of the under and overcharge appearing from the actual amount charged on the Letters, the amount of the daily charge againft the Letter Carriers and the Alphabet, of the total charge for Letters addrefled to the Country, and of the Irish part of the Postage on Letters poft- patd in Great Britain for the country parts of Ireland; Letters intended for the Country are forted for the divifions, and then sent to the Inland Office and dispatched from thence., In the Account of Britifh Letters by Holyhead outwards, is entered the number of Le ters mack up in each Mail, the amount of the inland Postage on Letters to Dublin iorwaruea Nos. 2,3.] ON FEES, GRATUITIES, & c.-( Poft- Office.) 3r US ; LTCR;;. PAYING ACROWN'which is the pe^ icte ° f ci « k ^ makes up ^ J. S. Rochfort, T _ Fred. Geale, J. De Joncourt. Robert Alexander, Cha. Stewart Hawthorne, John Hamilton. No. 2. THE EXAMINATION OF Mr J0HN °' neill; up0n oath, ^ 6th of March and 24th of April 1809. This Examinant faith, That he is Principal in the Letter Bill Office. The duty of this Office is to keen aa Account of the charge againft each Deputy Poftmafter in Ireland, for the unpaid PoflaEe on all Letters fent from Dublin to his Poft Town, and for the Poftage on all poft- paid Letters coming from fuch Poft Town to Dublin. Two books are kept by Examinant for this pur- pofe, one denominated the General Letter Bill Book, the other the Poft- paid Book. In the General Letter Bill Book is entered in one column, the amount of the unpaid Poftage charged in the Letter Bill or Docket, fent from Dublin with every xVLail to each Poftmafter according to a Return thereof made to Examinant's Office from the Inland Office ; and in an oppofite column, the amount of the unpaid Postage of the same Mail, with which the Poft- mafter admits he is chargeable, as appears from the Docket itself, which, after having been returned by him to the Inland Office, is fent from thence to Examinant's Office. In the poft- paid bock he enters from the Docket transmitted with every Mail to Dublin, ( which after being examined and checked in the Inland Office is returned to Examinant), the amount of the Poftage ftated by that Office to be chargeable 011 the Postmaster for poftpaid Letters fent from his Office to Dublin. The Deputy Poftmafters at the clofe of each month fend to the Letter Bill Office a Voucher, containing an Account of the Poftage received daily for poft. paid Letters fent ta Dublin, and for unpaid Letters received from Dublin. This Voucher is compared with the Account kept in the Letter Bill Office, and fhould any variance appear, the caufe thereof is inveftigated and the error is corrected. Examinant makes out a Monthly Account, in which, oppofite to the name of each Poft Town, is entered the amount of the general Poftage, the poft- paid Poftage, and the total amount chargeable on each Poftmafter. This Account is figned by the Secretary, and returned to the Accountant General. J. S. Rochfort, N. J. O'Neill. Fred. Geale, Robert Alexander, Cha. Stewart Hawthorne, John Hamilton.