The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-04-05
CITY OF WASHINGTON, MONDAY NIGHT, APRIL 5, ls4z.

r EQUATIONS ~ IN. P..s onss D<p.rtm.ns O.
| and Sd OF March, lSn ~
L. All deputy posasers are authorized to send free.
over ounces, which they may lave occasion write
send relating the business of their offices Pos,
and snag hs thereon S Ss' whose
did not exceed $500 for the year ending the
letters written by themselves, and receive all
communications their private business weigh
Members of Congress aud delegates from Territories
may send and receive free through The mails, from th
meeting OF the next Congress- letters and packages
sss m Tss
those printed by the order of either hoe Of Congress- and
Or ether house, for the use Of the members
Inc same privilege allowed to members Of Congess i
ss s.ss as sss o s%d s s
eln"1o Win the ss e., Of hassss
he may send and receive free public documents durns
s. Persons entied to thr privilege of aaking should en-
dorse all letters packages weighing under Two
Free and sign the same, designating the office they f
weight should be designated by writing the words p,.his
docimens on them and signing them oGsialy % at1ts
Offices in the city of Washington and directed persons
horzed receive them ree may be designated stamp
pubic documents" or such other evidence OF their char
accr be agreed upon between them and the post
and sealed not having such Evidence of its character on
the envelope, will be rated with postage, which viii be re-
mitted by the delivering posnaster upon satisfactory
dence tlat it IS public document, transmissble free
XII ps a aad packages o sna the heads Of de-
partmen the other public officers who We're entitled TO
s Of p MeE @ a G 10 the e @ s CT e
spectve Offices will be delivered the persons addressed
aay saoa ose For ps nn All
packages Issuing from the departments should pc en- marked
of the departments or under their direction their chief
clerks, and by the other officers who Were entitled to the
official capacity But such officers have the right
send or receive, Free their private letters or papers
hereafter rated with postage, except exchange papers be-
the publishers of wspapers and those ranked by
newspapers out of the mails for sale distribution among
subscribers.
of publication subscribers hand-bls circular letters
printed Autographed exceeding sheet in SIZE
put the mails and all such will be charged by depu
y postnlasers as prepaid the way bills and upon
'pad' with the name of the office from which sent.
g. Transient newspapers, handbls, circulars,
e II such should be addressed to them it the duty
return them to the sender under new cover, charged
with letter postage Ideposted in post office uIseacd
addressed to deputy postnasers others, they win not
any be forwarded by mail without prepayment of the
postage. If sealed they will be rated with letter postage
and forwarded in the mails.
TO- Letters addressed different persons be
closed in the envelope package under penalty
ten dollars, unless addressed to foreign countries
u r sa pny oeer not sxsssa
private in the army of the United States in Mexico
any post place the frontier Of the United States Dor
deng Mexico, will pnss free in the mails Each letter
80 addressed should specify after the name Of he person
H. Extra commissions allowed deputy postmasters by
the order of the 9th ofJuly 1885, superseded by the act
Of the Sd of March, 1877.
Is The commissions allowed by the 24h section of the
net Of the sd Of March, 1916 repealed and other
allowed by the Isl section of the act of the LIST of March,
1917, in lieu of them, Us follows
l. On the amount of letter postage, exceeding 500
any year. 40 per cent.
q On any sum between 800 and 800 in any year, s3i
B. On any sum between 500 and 81 400 in a year. 80
perc cent. AZ ~
g. the of letters and packets received for dis
tibuon offices designated by the Postmaster General
Tor that purpose, per cent.
except those which arise from newspapers sent from The
offices of the publishers Subscribers and from pamphlets
and that all prepaid postage upon transient
papers, hand bils and circulars printed Autographed
will be treated letter postage in the settlement of accounts
8. On all arising from the postage newspapers,
magazines, and plmphlcts, 30 per cent.
tery and their nissions allowed for that time the post
will credit themselves it'll 40 per upon the first
twenty-five dollars received in the quarter and for any
between twenty-five dollars and hundred dollars in the
quarter the rate of 33 per cent and upon any be-
tween one hundred and six hundred dollars received the
quarter 80 per centm and any six hundred
dollars received in the quarter at the rate OF IN cent
g. The commission accounts will be settled as heretofore
except that the annual compensation which posmasers
limited will be computed for the fiscal commenc
proportion for any period less than year.
9. No other allowances can be made to posmasters
num- and the surplus of such receipts may be applied
the expenses Of the office, under the direction of the Post
master General. The emolnment or box.rent account
must be accounted for regularly in the quh,ery returns
and for the quarter as other proceeds Of the office.
TO- Posmasers in their returns for the quarter
ending the 3st of March, 1917, will adjust their accounts
according to the above allowance