The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1847-04-06
veIope or package. under q penalty Of zen
dollars, unless addressed 10 foreign

veIope or package, nnder q penalty Of ten
dollars, unless addressed 10 foreign coun-
tries.
IL. Letters, newspapers and packa-
GEES not exceeding one ounce in weight.
addressed TO any officer, musician, or PR
yate in the army Of the United States in
Mexico, or at any post or place on the
frontier of the United States bordering
on Mexico; viii pass free in the nails
Each letter so addressed should specify
after the name of The persons belonging
to the armv." The law will continue III
force during the war with Mexico, and
three months after its termination.
10. Extra commission allowed depu-
ty postmasters by the order Of the 9Th OF
July. iS45, are superseded by the act oil
the Sd of March, lS47.
i3. The commissions allowed by the
24th section Of the act Of the Sd Of March
1915, are repealed, and other rates allow
ed by the lst section of the act of the LIST
OF March. lS47, in lieu Of them, as fol-
lows:
/. On the amount of letter postage,
no. exceeding $ie0 in any one year, 40
per cent.
2. On any sum between 800 and $500
in any year, 335 per cent.
8. On any sum between 500 an ST.
400 in a year, 80 per cent.
a. On any sum over $1,000 IN a year,
l24 per cent.
s. On the amount of letters and pack
els received for distribution at offices des-
lgnated by the Postmaster General for
that purpose, Z per cent.
kT1'he term letter postage includes
all hostages received, except those which
arise from newspapers, sent from the of
fee of the publishers to subscribers, and
from pamphlets and magazines so that
all prepaid postage upon transient papers.
hand bills, and circulars, printed or ltho-
graphed, will be treated as letter postage
in the settlement of accounts OF postmas-
tiers.
Q. On all sums arising from the postage
on newspapers, magazines. and pamph-
lets, so per cent.
z. As the accounts OF postmasiers have
to be settled quarterly, and their commits
sions allowed for that time, the postmas-
tiers viii credit themselves with 40 per
cent. upon the first twenty-five dollars re-
ceived in the quarter, and for any sun
between twenty-five dollars and one hum
dred dollars in the quarter, at the rate of
335 per cent, and upon any sum between
one hundred and six hundred dollars re-
ceived in the quarter, 80 per cent; and on
any sum over six hundred dollars received
in the quarter, at the rate of l2a per
cent.
g.. The commission accounts will be
settled as heretofore, except that the an
nual compensation to which postmasters
are limited, will be computed for the fis-
cal year commencing the first of July,
and ending the Both of June, and in due
proportion for any period less than a
year.
@. No other allowances can be made
to postmasters except box-rents TO an
amount moi exceeding $4,000 per annum,
and the surplus of such receipts may be
applied to the expenses Of the Office, UNI
der the direction of the Postmaster Gen
eral. The emolument or box rent ac-
count must be accounted for regularly in
the quarterly returns, and for the same
quarter as other proceeds of the office.
10. Postmasters in their returns for the
present quarter ending the 3lst OF March,
ls47, will adjust their accounts according
to the above allowances.
G. JOHNSON,
March 10, 1s47. Postmaster Gen.
American Officers Killed and