Chapter 11

6 Including all payments out of the revenue in its progress to the Exchequer, except advances to the Money Order Office; of these sums £10,307 10_s_. per annum is for pensions, and forms no part of the disbursements on account of the service of the Post Office.

7 This year includes one month of the Fourpenny Rate.

8 By multiplying any of these numbers by 13, you get the number for 62 weeks, which is, for all practical purposes, the number for a year; as 20,087,971 in 1839, to 109,362,997 in 1847

9 Estimated from an enumeration for four several weeks in that year.

10 The Penny Rate commenced Jan. 10, 1840; Stamps, May 6, 1840.

11 The increase of the total, since 1839, is 418 per cent.; of paid in coin, since 1840, 39 per cent.; of unpaid, since 1841, 21 per cent.; of stamps, since 1841, 183 per cent.

12 Cost diminished by £364, equal to _d_. 0.004 per letter.

13 Cost increased equal to _d_. 0.445 per letter.

14 Cost increased equal to _d_. 0.205 per letter.