The Post Office Savings Act 1861
WHEREAS it is expedient to enlarge the Facilities now available for the Deposit of small Savings, and to make the General Post Office available for that Purpose, and to give the direct Security of the State to every such Depositor for Repayment of all Monies so deposited by him, together with the Interest due thereon: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament as...