Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1823-10-23
NEY posrssnCE RECITATION.
icIRC ULAR.
Post Office Depcrsment,

men!, at the close of each quarter. OF
the nGnber OF Newspapers deposited
in your Office, to be sent in the mail.
You will furnish one eitbese blanks
quarterly, to each publisher of i news
paper in your vicinity, and be partlca-
lar nrcaniring him to make return,
under oath, of the number of his papers
mailed in your Office, for the last three
months, and the Post Offices to which
Trey were directed TO be sent The
oath may be made by the person who
usually folds and directs the papers,
and must be as specific as the circum
stInces of The case will admit You
will observe, that the numbers must
be placed in the columns designated
as having been forwarded in the mail
either ooer or under hHadred miles,
as may comport with the fact.
4 there be two or more newspapers
published in your vicinity, and mailed
at your Office, after you have received
from the publishers the returns, as a
bove stated, you will reduce them in
to one return. by stating in figures, op.
positc 10 each Post Office, the total a.
/ mount ofpapess sent 10 it.
You are also required, to procure
similar returns from the publishers of
periodical works, which are mailed at
your office.
The printed form may be changed,
by specifying, in the caption, the mum.
Der of sheets contained in the pamph
let; or a manuscript return may be
made, where the number Of Post OF
fees to which the pamphlet may have
been sent, arc not numerous. 4 MA.
nuscript return may be made by the
Publisher of newspaper, where the
Offices to be inserted are few, and in
such cases, you can arrange the Offices
in alphabetical order You will re-
turn TO thi, department, as well the
original returns, as the consolidated
one which you are required TO make.
This plan has been adopted from a
conviction that this department does
not realige much more than one bait
the amount that should be received
from newspaper postage, and that no
mode can be effectual to ensure the
collection Of this amount, except one
fiat shall enable this department TO
raise an account against each postsnas-
ter IN the Union, for the postage on
newspapers sent to his office. The "a
bove arrangement will eifectually do
this.
1t is believed that the publishers of
newspapers will most readily lend
their aid, to the accomplishment ofthis
object. They will experience from it
most essential advantage, as Post
. masters will be punctual to inform
them, when subscribers fail to take
their papers out of the Post Offices.
Post Masters are now required to
charge the-postagc on newspapers, one
quarter in advance, and 10 apprizc
printers of al papers not taken out of
their Post Offices; they viii therefore
be required 10 account TO this depart
mcnt, for the postage on all newspa
pcrs sent 20 their offices, unless they
can shew, that subscribers failed to
take them, and that the printers were
daily apprized of the fact.
A most rigid compliance with the
duties here eI1omcd, will be expected
and required.
1 am. Csc. JOHN Mclean.
0r Fhis Circular will be addressed to every
Postmaster, III whose vicinity one or more ne 5,
papers are published