The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-03-17

JAMES H. PIPER,
Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Sept S-lawts
d POPULATIONS Of tho Post Onee Department for
the enforcement of the of Congress of the LIST, I'd
and Sd of March, 1917
All deputy postmasters are authorized TO send free,
through the mails, all letters and packages weighing
which they may have occasion 10 write or
send relating the their offices of the Post
Office Department. endorsing thereon post office bust
ness" and signing their names thereto And those whose
did exceed $500 for the year ending the
Both OF june 1916, may also send Free through the mails
letters written by themselves and receive free all written
communication their private business, not weigh
g. Members Of Congress and delegates from Territories
may free. through the mails, from thirty
days before the OF each Congress, until the
meeting the Congress, and packages
exceeding ee pounds in weight Pubic documents
those printed by the order of either house of Congress and
publications books procured purchased by Congress,
or either house, for the use of the members,
The same privilege allowed to members Of C S Is
House of Representatives during their official TERMS which
S w the ss s H Of 50 that
he may send and receive Free public documents during his
s. Persons entiled privilege of tranking should
dorse all letters packages weighing under Two ounces
and all public documents which exceed two ounces in
weight should be designated by writing the words public
The character public documents issued from the public
Offices in the city Of Washington and directed a
specifying the office from which they issue, and the words
public documents sneh other evidence of their char
master of the city of Washington Any document folded
and sealed having such evidence of its character
the envelope, will be rated with postage which will be
mtted by the delivering postmaster upon satisfactory evil
dence that it is public document, nansmissibe free
6. All letters and packages from and the heads Of de-
panents the other public officers who entitled
Ma m Hs 10 s e IN s he e
spectve Offices will be delivered the persons addressed
Seen cose for Ssr All a n
packages issuing from the departments should be marked
Of the departments under their direction, by their chief
clerks and by the other officers who entitled the
Thanking privilege prior the of 1885, designating their
official capacity But such officers have the right
send or receive Free their private letters papers
T. All newspapers transmitted through the mails will be
hereafter rated with postage except exchange papers be-
tween the publishers OF newspaper and those ranked BY
newspapers out OF the mails for sale or distribution among
% or hpn ri@sa o ose
printed or autographed, exceeding sheet size,
will pay cents upon delivery the office and before they
put in the mails and all such viii be charged by depu-
their accounts Of mails sent, and stamped Or marked
paid" with the name Of the office from which sent
g. Transient newspapers. hnndbis circulars, cannot
be received free by deputy posnasters under their Ivi
ege. If sch should be addressed them duty
TO return them to the sender under new cover charged
with letter postage deposited in post Office unsealed,
addressed to deputy posmastes or others they will not IN
postage sealed they viii be rated with letter postage,
TO- Letters addressed to different persons be
ten dollars, unless addressed TO foreign countries.
H. Letters, newspapers, and packages not exceeding
in weight, addressed any officer musician,
o IN The near, amy Of the United states aesee Or at
derng Mexico, will pass free in the mails Each letter
e T Tr a Rs @
during the with Mexico. and for three months after its
termination.
IL. Extra commissions allowed deputy posmasters by
The order Of the 9Th ofJuy 1885, are superseded by the act
49, The commissions allowed by the oath section of The
act OF the Sd of March, ls5 repealed and other rates
allowed by the ls section of the act of the lst of March,
1871, in lieu of them, follows.
On the amount OF letter postage not exceeding 800 in
On any sum between 500 and 500 in any year, aa
per cent
On any So, 400 in year, l2l per cent.
On the amount of letters and packets received for dis
tribuon Offices designated by the Postmaster General
for that purpose, 7 per cent.
except those which arise from newspapers, from the
Offices publishers subscribers and from pamphlets
papers, hand bills and circulars printed Autographed
viii be treated letter postage in the settlement of accounts
8. On all sums arising from the postage newspapers
and pamphlets, so per cent.
T. As the of posnasters have be settled quar-
tey, and their commissions allowed for that time the
masters will credit themselves with 10 cent upon the first
twenty-five dollars received in the quarter and for sum
between twenty-five dollars and hundred dollars in the
quarter of 1874 per cent and upon any sum be-
hundred and hundred dollars received in the
quarter 30 centun- and any six hundred
dollars received in the quarter at tie rafe I2a per cent
s. The commission accounts will be settled as heretofore
except tina, the annual compensation to which postmasers
limited will be computed for the fiscal year
ing the h of july and ending the Both of june and in due
for any period less than year
o. No other allowances be made to postmasers ex-
cep box-rens exceeding $2,OO per am
mum, and the surplus of such receipts may be applied
the expenses of the Office, under the direction Of the Post
master General. The emolument box-rent account,
must be accounted for regularly in the quarterly returns
and for the quarter other proceeds of the Office
10 Postnasers in their for the present quarter
ending the sls of March, 1877, will adjust their
according to the above allowances.
c. JOHNSON, Postmaster General
March IL, 1917
Tnmmany Hall, opposite the Park and Hall Mas
street. New York.
THE propreofs of this extensive hotel the celebrity of
Il which has spread throughout the United States, and,
indeed, throughout Europe, and at which the European