POST OFFICE—COMPULSORY REGISTRATION OF STAMPS, &c. (Hansard, 25 July 1873)

§ MR. MONK

said, he had a Notice on the Paper— To call attention to a notice of the extension of compulsory registration to letters and packets containing bank notes, postage stamps, jewellery, or watches, issued by command of the Postmaster General and to move—That, in the opinion of this House, it is undesirable that letters, not duly tendered for registration, which contain bank notes or postage stamps, should be subject to a double registration fee of eight pence. At that late hour, however, he would not trouble the House on the subject. He believed he would have an opportunity on Monday, on the Post Office Estimates in Committee of Supply, to draw attention to the matter, and he wished now to give Notice that he would then ask the Postmaster General to withdraw the new regulation, so far as it referred to bank notes and postage stamps. If he did not receive a satisfactory reply from the right hon. Gentleman, he (Mr. Monk) would, on the Report of Supply, move the Resolution which he had put upon the Paper for to-day.