3j - ( Ireland.)— Ninth REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS [ Appx. quence an additional Officer has been appointed to that Department. From the like arran ments in the Inland Department, no extra duty it is expected will occur in that Office. J. S. Rochfort, Edw. S. Lees. Fred. Geale, Cha. Stewart Hawthorne, John Hamilton. No. 5. Total Amount of parts of Notes and Poft Bills, paid on Bond at the Bank! of Ireland, for two years, commencing the ift January 1805 and ending £ £ 50,020. ill January 1807, in confequence of Losses by Post - j a, 260 Perfons applied for payment of the same. Tho. Williams, Sec. No. 6. Total Amount of parts of Notes and Poll Bills, paid on Bond at the Bank^ j of Ireland, for one year, commencing ill January and ending 31ft Decern- V £ 24,530. ber 1807, in confequence of Losses by Poft - - - J ! l, ooo Perfons applied for payment of the fame. Tho. Williams, Sec. No. 7. Total Amount of parts of Notes and Poll Bills, paid on Bond at the Bank ^ of Ireland for one year, commencing ift January and ending 31ft Decern- > £ g, o66. ber 1808, in confequence of Losses by Post - - - - - J 540 Perfons applied for payment of the same. Tho. Williams, Sec. No. 8. The Examination of Mr. ANT. DEJONCOURT ; taken upon Oath, the 27th April and 6th July 1809. This Examinant saith, That he is Inspector of Letter Carriers; his duty is to attend from six o'clock in the morning until eight in the evening; he sees that all the Letter Carriers attend at six in the morning; he is also Inspector of the British Mail Letter Carriers, the Penny- post, and Inland Letter Carriers; the number of Letter Carriers is feventy- five, sixty for the delivery of Britifh and Irifh Letters, and fifteen for Penny- post Letters ; besides these there are eight or ten probationers, who are employed during the illness or suspension of any of the eftab- lifhed Letter Carriers, and are paid out of their salaries; there are fifteen Head Letter Carriers, who are called Mafters of Walks, the rest act as their assistants. The Metropolis is divided into 15 Walks, to each of which a Head Letter Carrier is appointed. Poft- paid Letters are delivered to Examinant by a Clerk from the Sorting Office, with a ticket containing their number, which on comparing he signs, if correft, and returns to the Sorting Clerk; he then forts and delivers them to the Head Letter Carriers, who re- fort and deliver them to the affiftants, each of whom enters in a book ! the addrefles of the Letters he receives ; the Letters are forted in the Sorting Office for the different Walks, and as Letters are frequently mif- forted, they are returned to Examinant by the Letter Carriers, and he is charged by them with the amount of the Postage ; he then re- forts them, and charges the Letter Carriers to whom he re- delivers them with the Postage ; this is called the changing, and occupies the principal part of Examinant's time; he keeps an Account of the hour at which the firft Letter Carrier leaves the Office, and of the time the laft Letter Carrier returns after delivery : fince the appointment of the prefent Poftmafters General, the delivery of the Letters in Dublin has commenced and finifhed nearly two hours earlier than under the former Eftablifhment. Fred. Geale, A. Dejoncsurt. Robert Alexander, Cha. Stewart Hawthorne, , John Hamilton.