text:  At the same time Lord Hilsborough kissed hands for the American department but nominally retaining the post-office the salary of which he paid to Lord Sandwich _till the elections should be over_; there being so strict a disqualifying clause in the bill for prohibiting the postmasters for interfering in elections which Sandwich _was determined to do_ to the utmost that he did not dare to accept the office in his own name _till he had incurred the guilt_