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The Ninth Report Fees, Gratuities, Perquisites Ireland

31/01/1810

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Appendix, No. ON FEES, GRATUITIES, & c/ 7 diftinft view Of the manner in which this duty is performed, we recommend that a report of the Docket charges, and of thofe actually entered againft each- Deputy roltmalter, fhould be made to them monthly, by the Letter Bill Office. n ° n that are P° ft Paid in Dublin is « « ived at the General , OHlc1e bY an 0fficer denominated the Window- man, whofe duty it is to mark on the Letter the Poftage charge, and the words, « Poft paid," and to enter in a book the name of the perfon to whom the Letter is direfted, the place to which and the amount received. Out of thefe receipts the Window- man makes various- payments, taking credit for their amount in an account of Receipts and Payments which he returns weekly, together with the Vouchers for the latter, to the Account- ant General, by whom they are examined and the Account checked, and a docket of the balance due by him returned to the Treafurer. Thefe receipts do not feem to be fubjeft to any official check ; the Window- man may either deftroy the Letter, the Poftage of which has been paid, or as the perfon who tenders it ftands on the* outfide of a fmall window without the means of feeing what paffes within, he may omit to ftamp it as pojl paid, and may forward it as an unpaid Letter ; thus being enabled in either way, the one operating as a fraud againft: the Revenue, the other againft the individual, to appropriate the amount received to his own ufe. Of this branch of the Poft Office Revenue, a great proportion is derived from the Poftage paid on the official Letters belonging to certain Public Offices, with moft of which the Window- man keeps Accounts, and receives from them at ftated periods the amount of the Poftage charged againft them for fuch Letters. With the Letters fent to the Poft Office, each of thefe departments tranfmits a docket, containing an account of the number of Letters intended to be poft- paid, each Letter being generally marked with the title of the Office from which it is fent. But though by keeping fuch an Account, fome check may be maintained on the charge brought by the Window- man, againft any fuch department for poft- paid Letters, the Poft Office has certainly none on his receipts; it is true that thefe frauds could not be carried on to any very great extent, without exciting fuch complaints againft the Officer as would produce enquiry into his conduct, and probably lead ultimately to his difmiffal; to provide however effectually againft fuch practices, it would only be neceffary to direct that the Window- man fhould return the Letter after receiving the Poftage with which it was chargeable, and marking it with the amount and the words " Poft paid" to the perfon by whom it was produced, to be put into a receiving- box conveniently ftationed for that purpofe, and that the Officer appointed to keep this box fhould take every night an Account of the Amount of the paid Poftage marked on the Letters, and furnifh the Accountant General with a weekly Return thereof, made up to the fame day in the week as the Window- man's Abftrafts; and to enable public Offices with which the Window- man^ keeps accounts co guard againft overcharges, the fame Officer might be required to return to each an Account of the charge againft it for poft- paid Letters, for which purpofe it will be neceffary that on every fuch Letter, the title of the Office fhould be regularly marked. Diftinct Accounts are kept of the Poftage on the bye and Appendix, No. 10. crols- road Letters, which are fuch Inland Letters as pafs from one Poft Town to another without going through Dublin, and fuch Poft Towns as fend and receive bye Letters to and from each other are faid to correfpond. With every bye Letter Mail each Deputy Poftmafter is required to tranfmit to every Office with which he correfponds, a poft bill or docket containing the number of Letters fent, and the amount of their Poftage, diftinguifhing the paid from the unpaid Letters, alfo the number of, and the Poftage on Letters called forward Letters, which are fuch as are addreffed to a Poft Town with which he does not correfpond, but are fent by him to fome Deputy that does. Of Letters fo fent and received, each Deputy is alfo required to keep an Account, termed a Voucher Account; on the fent tide of this Account is entered the date of forwarding the Mail, and under- the head of each Poft Town, the fum ftated in the Poft Bills, diftinguifhing the Poftage charged on unpaid Letters from the Poftage on poft- paid Letters, except m the cafe offorward Letters, of the unpaid Poftage whereof no entry is to be made ; but the amount of the paid Poftage, whether on forward Letters or not, is always to b- entered in one fum. On the received fide of this Account are to be entered the unpaid charges exadly as they appear in the Poft Bills received from the corre- fponding Deputy, except thole on forward Letters and in cafe of any variance between the abfolute amount of the unpaid Letters and that ftated m the Poft Bills it is to be adjufted by an undercharge or an overcharge, for wnich purpole ther£ are two diftinft columns in the Voucher Account; and the amount of fucn uicic ai t undercharge
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