§ SIR HENRY PEEKasked the Postmaster General, Whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that, in order improperly to obtain admission to a meeting of the ratepayers under "The Wimbledon and Putney Commons Act, 1871," at which discussion took place upon the Guildford, Kingston, and London Railway Bill, the Wimbledon Post Office impressed stamp of the 13th of March 1881 was forged upon certain postcards in order to make them facsimile imitations of cards of invitation issued by the Conservators to their rate- 1654 payers through the post; whether such an act is not a criminal offence; and, what steps he proposes to take in the matter?
§ MR. FAWCETT, in reply, said, that, so far as he could learn, no existing statute provided a remedy for the offence in question. He hoped that the state of Public Business would enable him to bring in a Bill relating to offences against the Post Office, in which, if the House thought desirable, this particular offence might be dealt with. The Department were quite satisfied that there was no ground for attaching the slightest suspicion to the officials of the Wimbledon Post Office in reference to the occurrence.