Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1847-03-26

------=-.s-==s-=-
ees, will Be delivered to the person addressed,
without any change OF postage, as an appropria-
ton has b0en made BY Congress for their pay
meat. All letters and packages issuing from the
departments, should be marked on the envelope
official business" and be signed by the heads Of
tho departments or under their direction, by their
chief clerks, and by the other officers who were
enllIed TO the frankng privilege prior to The act
OF lSq6 designating their official capacity. But
such officers have not the right TO send or receive
Tree, their private letters or papers.
Z. All Newspapers transmitted through the
mails will be hereafter rated with postage, except
exchange papers between the publishers Of news.
papers. and lhoss franked by persons enjoying
the privileges and contractors may take newspa.
perS out Of the mails, for sale or distribution
among subscribers.
8. Transient newspapers, or those not sent
from the Office Of publication TO subscribers,
hand-bills or circular letters printed or liihor-
graphed, not exceeding one sheet in size, will
pay cents upon delivery at the Office and be-
fore they are put in the mails, and al such will
be charged by deputy poslmasters as prepaid mat
ter in the way bills and upon their accounts OF
mails sent, and stamped or marked "paid," with
the name Of the office from which sent.
8. Transient newspapers, handbills, or circu.
lars, cannot be received free by deputy postmas-
t6rs under their privilege. If such should be ad-
dressed 10 them, il is their duty to return them 10
the sender under new cover charged with let
ter postage. If deposited in post Office unseal-
ed, addressed to deputy postmasters or others,
they will not in any case be forwarded by mail
without prepayment of the postage. If sealed,
they will be rated with letter postage, and for
warded in the mails.
| 10. Letters addressed to different persons can.
not be enclosed in the same envelope or package,
under a penalty often dollars, unless addressed
TO foreign countries.
IL. Letters, newspapers, packages not exceed
ing one ounce in weight, addressed to any Off
Ger, musician, or private in the army Of The Uni.
ted States in Mexico, or at any post or place on
the frontier of the United States bordering on
Mexico, will pass free in the mails. Each let.
ter so addressed should specify after the name OF
the persons, "belongng to the army" The law
will continue in force during the war with Msxi-
co, and for three months after its termination.
l2. Extra commissions allowed deputy post.
masters by the order ofthe 9th Of July, l845, are
superseded by the act of the Sd of March, l847.
l3. The commissions allowed by the cath
section of the ACT oflhe Sd of March, l845, are
repealed, and other rates allowed by the LIST Sec
tion ofhe act ofthe lst of March, 847, in lieu Of
them as follows:
/. On the amount ofle,ter postage, not ex.
cceding 100 in any one year 40 per cent.
2. On any sum between 800 and S400 in any
year, 335 per cent.
5. On any sum between S400 and 50, 400 in a
year, 80 per cent.
4. On any sum over $4,000 in a year, 1qI
per cent.
8. On the amount oflettcrs and packets receiv-
ed for distribution at Offices desgn mated by the
Postmaster General for that purpose, per cent.
or The term letter postage includes all pos
tages received, except those which arise from
newspapers, sent from the office Of the publish
ers TO subscribers, and from pamphlets and mag
azines--so that all prepaid postage upon transient
papers, hand bills, and circulars, printed or lith-
ographed, will be treated as letter postage in the
settlement Of accounts Of poslmasters.
G. On all sums arising from the postuge on
newspapers, magazines, and pamphlets, so per
cent.
7. As the accounts OF postmasters have to be
oChNN uHu 'iCll IOilliIllnolplS uliOWtu
for that time, the posmasters will credit them
selves with 40 per cent, upon the first twenty-five
dollars received in the quarter, at the rate of 335
per cent and upon any sum between one hun
dred aud six hundred dollars received in the
quarter, 80 per cent; and on any sum over six
hundred dollars received in the quarter at the
rate of l2l per cent.
Q. The commission accounts will be settled as
heretofore, except that the annual compensation
to which postmasters are limited, will be compu-
ted for the fiscal year commencing the first of
July, and ending the 30th of June, and in due
proportion for any period less than year.
8. No other allowances can be made to post
masters except box rents to an amount not ex-
ceedlng $4,000 per annum, and the surplus of
such receipts may be applied to the expenses of
the office, under the direction Of tho Postmaster
General. The emolument or box rent account
must be accounted for regularly in the quarterly
returns, and for the same quarter as other pro.
ceeds Of the office.
TO- Postmasters in their returns for the present
quarter ending the 3lst of March, l847, will ad-
Just their accounts accordidg to the above allow
ances. c. JOHNSON, Postmaster General.
March l2, l847.