§ MR. BUCHANAN (Aberdeenshire, E.)I beg to ask the Postmaster General how many postmasters who are also bank or insurance agents will, under the Regulation issued by him, be obliged to give up their postmasterships; how many of these are in Scotland; and whether he will agree to make the Order to apply only to future appointments, or will make an exception of those whose term of service as postmaster has exceeded a certain number of years, or whose dismissal from the postmastership would cause grave inconvenience to the locality?
§ MR. A. MORLEY; The Regulation recently issued by which postmasters are prohibited from holding bank or insurance agencies has elicited a large number of appeals. These appeals are now under consideration, and I am unable to say at present what exceptions, if any, it may be possible to make to the Rule.