The Wilmingtonian., 1823-11-06
.N'sw Post-0Gce Regulation.
1CIRCULAR.1
General Post. Office Department., I
October, ID, 1928. :

General POSt-Ofhce Department.,
October, I'd, 1898.
SIR Blanks forwarded to you. for the pur.
pose of obtaining a statement at the close of each
quarter, of the number of Newspapers deposited
in your Office, to be sent in the mail.
You will furnish one Of these blanks quarterly,
to each publisher Of Newspaper in your vicini-
ty, and be particular in requiring 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 they were directed
10 be SENT The oath may be made by the per-
son who usually folds and directs the pa ers and
must be as specific as the circumstances Of the
case will admit You will observe, that the mum.
bers must be placed in the columns designated
las having been forwarded in the mail, either over
or under hundred miles, as may comport with
1.-THE fact.
If there be two or more newspapers published
lin your vicinity, and mailed at your office, after
lyou have received from the publishers the re-
Turns, as above stated, you will reduce them nto
one return, by stating in figures, opposite to each
post Office the total amount of papers sent to it
You are also required to procure similar re-
turns from the publishers of periodical works
(which are mailed at your office.
The printed form may be changed, by speci-
II, ing, in the caption, the number OF seets con-
tanned in the pamphlet; or manuscript return
may be made, where the number OF Post offices
to which the pamphlet may have been sent, are
mot numerous A manuscript return may b. made
10y the publisher OF newspaper, where the Off
ices to be inserted are few, md in such cases YOU
can arrange the offices in alphabe tical order. You
Twill return to this department, as well the ori-
gnal returns, as the consolidated one which you
are required to make
| This plan has been adopted from conviction
THAT this department does not realize much more
lthan one hafthe amount that should be received
from newspaper postage, and that no mode can
be eec,ual to insure the collection OF this amount
jexcept one that shall enable this department to
lra Sc an account against each Postmaster in the
Union, for the postage on newspapers sent to his
Ioffice. The above arrangement will etiectualy
Id this
| 1t is believed that the publishers OF Newspa-
pers will most readily lend their aid, to the ac-
accomplishment of this object. They will expe-
lrience from it a most essential advantage, as
lPostmasters will be punctual to inform them,
when the subscribers fail to take heir papers
Iout of the Post Offices.
| Postmasters are now required to charge the
postage on Newspapers, one quarter IN advance,
land to apprze PRIMERS of all papers not taken
out of their Post offices; they will therefore be
required to account to this department, for the
hostage on all newspapers sent to their offices,
urless they can slew, that subscribers fai ed to
take them, and that the printers we're duly sp-
Iplized of the fact.
|. most rigid compliance with the duties here
|enjoined, will be expected and required.
lam, sc. JOHN MLEAN.