§ MR. MACNEILL (Donegal, S.)I beg to ask the Postmaster General whether the large sums allowed under the Votes to the postmasters of some of the provincial head post offices for the purpose of providing assistance in addition to the ordinary established staff are placed at the absolute disposal of the postmasters of the respective offices to which such allowance is made; and what account is rendered or what check exercised over the expenditure of this money?
§ *SIR J. FERGUSSONThe sums placed at the disposal of the postmasters individually are not large, being very rarely as much as £100 a year, and generally a good deal less than that amount. An account of the disposal of the money is rendered by postmasters to the surveyors of their districts.