§ MR. MONKasked the Postmaster General, Whether the rules for sub-postmasters in charge of money order offices, 1877, have been published by his authority containing, among others, the following rules:—
(76.) "Officers of the Post Office may now vote at elections for Members of Parliament, the former disabilities having been removed; but they are still prohibited, under severe penalties, from exerting their influence cither for or against any particular candidate, or otherwise intermeddling in elections."(77.) "This prohibition is contained in the forty-fourth section of the Act ninth Anne, chapter ten.And, whether he is not aware that the forty-fourth section of the ninth Anne, chapter 10, was repealed in 1874 by 37 and 38 Vic. c. 22?
§ LORD JOHN MANNERS,in reply, said, sub-postmasters were now in possession of knowledge as to their right of voting at elections of Members of Parliament.