3 The number of franks was ascertained for each of the weeks ending
January 11, January 21, and February 4, 1838; and the mean of these
three gives 126,212 as the estimated number for one week, which is 8
per cent. of the whole, and leaves 1,459,761 as the number of
chargeable letters.
4 Week ending April 21, 1847. The whole number in the week ending
February was 6,569,696. The number 6,148,876, for one week,
multiplied by 52, gives 319,741,552, the total number for the year
1847.
5 Namely, the gross receipts, after deducting the returns for refused
letters, &c.
6 Including all payments out of the revenue in its progress to the
Exchequer, except advances to the Money Order Office; of these sums
£10,307 10_s_. per annum is for pensions, and forms no part of the
disbursements on account of the service of the Post Office.