Note 177 — APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XXIV.
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“April 7, 1849.—Accounts of debts due by late Postmasters not yet discharged by the sureties (some many years old) show that, while the amount of revenue collected in Great Britain is about ten times as great as that collected in Ireland, the debts in Ireland more than double those in Great Britain.”—Sir R. Hill’s Journal.—Ed.