The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-04-03
CITY OF WASHINGTON, SATURDAY NIGHT, APRIL g. 1917.


II POPULATIONS Of tho Post OAAcs Department. 10
e enprcenen of the OF Congress Of the lst I'd
J. All deputy posfnasfers are authorized to send free
through me mails, all letters and packages weighing
send relating business Of their Offices or OF the Pos
ofce DePartneni, endorsing thereon ''post Office bust
did not exceed $500 for the year ending tn
h 81 Jnne isl6 may also send Free through the mails
etets written by themselves, and receive free all writer
communications their own private business not weigh
/ ing over one-half ounce. = tIa-I ll-I
may send and Free through the mails, from hr
days before me commencement of each Congress, until thu
ceedng two ounces in weight and public docaments no
aafse pounds in weight Public documents are
publications. or books procured purchased by Congress
OF ether me, house, for the use OF the members.
y Inc same privilege allowed members OF Congress,
extended to The Secretary Of the Senate and the Clerk Of III
House Of Representatives. during their official terms which
The privilege Yiee President is enlarged so tina
he may send and receive free, public Documents during
8. Persons eaed the privilege of ranking should
dorse on all letters packages weighing under two
Ffee and sign the same, designating the Office they fill
and all public documents which exceed ounces in
weight shonld be designated by writing the words pube
doc unents on Them, and signing them 0ically above
The character of public documents issued from the public
offices in the city of Washington and directed opersons
orzed 10 receive them free, may be designated by stamp
specifying the office from which they ISSUE the wod-
d,r % h or s"eh other evidence OF her char
master OF the city of Washington Any document folded
the envelope viii be aea with poage Which w be-
med by the delivering postmaster upon satisfactory evil
through the mails to the person Addressed
All letters and packages from aid to the heads Of de-
The ranking privilege prior 70 passage Of the pct Of The
Sd OF March, lsi5 IN relation to the business of their
without any charge Of postage, appropriation has
been made by Congress for their payment All letters and
envelope Official business and signed by the heads
OF the departments under their direction, by their
clerks, and by the oer officers who entitled to the
fmnkng privilege prior to the OF 1915, designating their
official capacity But such officers have not the right
send receive, free, their private letters papers.
4 All nf,espqpers transmitted through the mails will be
hereafter rated with postage, except exchange papers be-
the publishers of newspapers and those ranked by
persons enjoying the privilege and contractors may take
newspapers out of the mails for sale distribution among
g. Transient neospope,s those from the Office
of publication to subscribers handbls circular letters
will pay cents, upon delivery the office and before they
put in the mails and all such will be charged by depn
" postmasers prepaid the way bills and upon
their accounts OF mails sent and stamped marked
paid with the Of the office from which sent.
o. Transient newspapers, handblls, circulars, cannot
f'fssa ss be- + duty
with letter postage. Ideposited in post office unseaed
addressed deputy postasters or others they viii not in
be forwarded by mail without prepayment ofthe
p od .. y sdaea a,Y wv be rated win letter postage
TO- Letters addressed different persons be
ten dollars, unless Addressed to heigh countries
one ounce ii weight addressed to any officer musician Or
private in the army OF the United States in Mexico
post place the frontier OF the United States bor
derhg Mexico. will pass free the mails Each letter
50 % h9 s Hs s w Of the
during The with Mexico, and for three months after
termination. t3( frAt EHjeH if trtGaif Ht'
H. Extra commissions allowed deputy postmasters by
the order Of the 9h oJuy ls45 superseded by the act
OF the 3d Of March, IS47.
I3 The commissions allowed by the 9th section of the
OF the Sd Of March, 1885, repealed and other
allowed by the LIST section of the of the LIST of March,
l847 in lieu OF them, ms follows
l. On the of letter postage, exceeding 800 in
any year, 40 per cent.
On any sum between 500 and 500 in any year, 1871
per Gent. st .t
3. on any between $500 and $4,000 in year, 30
A. On any sum over $2, 400 in a year, l2t per cent
s. On the OF letters and packets received for dis
tribuon at Offices designated by the Postmaster General
0 Tho letter postage includes all hostages received,
except those which arise from newspapers from the
and magazneso that all prepaid postage upon transient
papers, hand bills and circulars, printed Autographed,
WILDE treated as letter postage in the settlement of accounts
g. On all sum, arising from the postage newspapers,
magazines and pamphlets, 90 per cent.
T. AS the Of posmasters have be settled quar-
ery and their commissions allowed for that me the post
masters viii credit 40 cent upon the first
between twenty-five dollars and hundred dollars in the
quarter at the rate Of cent and upon any sum be-
quarter 30 per cent and ON any sum over six hundred
dollars received in the quarter at the rate Of IN IT
s. The commission will be settled eretoore,
that the annual compensation which posmaers
are limited will be computed for the fiscal year
ing the lst Of July and ending the Both Of June, and in due
proportion for any period less than year.
o. No other allowances be made to postmasters
cept boxrents not exceeding 900 per
num- and the surplus of such receipts may be applied
the expenses of the office, under the dreston Of the Post
masisr General The emolinient or box-rent
mus be accounted for regularly in the quarterly returns
and for the quarter as other proceeds OF the Office
ending the sist Of March, 1917 will adjust their accounts
according to the above a I6yI,Isc., -, c..,
Naroh - 1917