xcvi ( Ireland.) SUPPLEMENT to the Ninth Report of the [ Poft Quires, Sheets. 1800, Connaught Road, 28 o 700 Papers produce about £. 497 10 o 1801 - 20 8 580 352 o o Lofs 1800, North Road 1801 - - - Lofs 1801 Lofs Appendix ( A) N° 2. Appendix ( A) N ® 3. This Memorial was prefented to the Poftmafters General by Sir John Lees, who was then acting Secretary to the Poft Office, accompanied by a Letter from himfelf, in which he confirmed the reprefentation of the other Clerks, and ftated, that the fame caufe which had reduced their incomes, had alfo operated in the diminution of his emoluments as Clerk of the Leinfter Road; and that for the reafons affigned bv them, he was perfuaded the decreafe had by no means reached its lowed ftate of depreflion; and he fubmitted to the Poftmafters General, whether, in confideration of fuch decreafe, it might not be reafonable to hope, that they would recommend an additional allowance to be made to him of « £. 300. per annum.; The Poftmafters General tranfmitted the Letter of Sir John Lees, and the Memorial of the other Clerks of the Roads, to the Lord Lieutenant, reprefenting that they had made very minute enquiry refpe& ing the lodes ail edged to have been fuftained, and were perfectly fatisfied of the corre& nefs of the Statements therein, and they recommended that an annual and permanent allowance, to be charged on incidents, Ihould be made to the then Clerks of the Roads in the following proportions:— To John and E. Lees, Joint Secretary - - - - £• 300 Henry Harrison, as Clerk of the Connaught Road, - 145 James Twigg, Ditto North Road - - 149 Wm Maturin, Ditto Munster Road - 142 o 10 10 o o o 0 Appendix ( A) N ® 4. X- 737 5 o Government, however conceiving that the decreafe in the circulation of News- papers would be but temporary, and therefore that it did not warrant a perma- nent charge upon the Revenue; and conlidering alfo, that the diminution of the profits of the Clerks could not be fairly afcertained from a comparifon of the period in which it was ftated to have occurred with a fingle year, fuppofed to be one of the greateft circulation, propofed that the annual average profit of each Clerk of the Road fhould be taken for the three years preceding that in which the diminution was alledged to have taken place, and that in future the amount of the receipts for fupplying the Country with Newspapers, fliould be brought into one fund or joint ftock, and that fo much Ihould annually be added thereto, out of the Revenue of the Poft Office, as fhould fecure to each Clerk who held the office on 5th January 1801, the amount to which he might be eonfidered as entitled, on account of his falary and profits upon the average fo taken; pro- viding at the fame time, that if thenceforth, by the increafed demand for News- papers, the ftock fund, fhould be increafed, the Revenue of the Poft Office might be relieved in the fame proportion, fo that the Clerks fhould not receive their Appendix ( A) N « 5, eompenlation, and alfo an increafed income in the ordinary way. This mode of compenfation being acceded to by the Clerks of the Roads, they returned a Statement of their profits on the circulation of Irifh Newspapers on an average thereof in the three years ending 5th January 1801, the total of which amounted to .£. 2.158. 17. 10. exceeding the profits derived from the fame fource in the one year ending 5th January 1801, by a fnm of « £. 91. 11. 4. the refult of the three years average being by fo much more favourable to them than the compa- narifon