al Revenue.
Year. +------------------------------------
| Postal Services. | All Services.
---------------+------------------+-----------------
1839-40 A B | 31.66 | --
1840-41 B | 63.16 | --
1880-1 | 61.84 | 68.97
1890-1 | 65.79 | 74.33
1900-1 | 71.75 | 80.99
1905-6 | 69.44 | 80.19
1909-10 | 73.75 | 84.00
1910-11 | 72.28 | 82.94
1911-12 | 72.36 | 82.89
1912-13 | 71.25 | 82.05
1913-14 C | 69.71 | 80.02

A: Penny Postage introduced, 10th January 1840.

B: Revenue does not include proceeds of Impressed Stamp on Newspapers.

C: Estimated.

--_Report of Postmaster-General_, 1913-14, pp. 122-3.

[101] "The inhabitants live so scattered and remote from each other in
that vast country, that posts cannot be supported among them."--Benjamin
Franklin, evidence before House of Commons, 28th January, 1766 (_Parl.
History_, vol. xvi. col. 138).

[102] The usual rate of remuneration for deputy postmasters in North
America. Cf. _infra_, pp. 49 and 66.

[103] "On account of the scarcity of money, people will forbear to
correspond until they find occasions by friends, travellers, and the
like, to send their letters, which makes it to be wished that the
Legislature might enact that the rate of postage for the greatest
distances on the Continent of America may not exceed 1s. 6d. for a
single letter and so in proportion."--_British Official Records_, 1764.

[104] Preamble of 5 Geo. III, cap. 25.

[105] "The present rates may in some parts be reduced, and the Revenue
nevertheless may hereafter be improved, by means of a more extensive
circulation."--5 Geo. III, cap. 25, [S] 1.

[106] _British Official Records_, 8th February 1774.

[107] _British Official Records_, 23rd September 1790.

[108] J. G. Hendy, _Empire Review_, London, 1902, vol. iv., p. 180.

[109] "There is no doubt that the revenues of the provinces showed a
nominal surplus, but it is not so clear that this surplus, which
amounted to [L]884 in 1801, and to [L]2,514 in 1811, was a surplus on
the provincial services. Many years later, when the administration of
the Post Office in the colonies and the question of the disposal of the
surplus revenu