The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-05-09
OF ICI

Instructions TO Postuaastors.
Posr OrrIcs DEPARTMENT, 9Th May, 1851.
In view of the great increase in the number O
letters to be mailed, and the consequent incrcas.
of labor in post Offices likely to be produced BY
the law passed At the last session of Congress- ere
ducing the rates Of postage" &C.; in view also O
the fact that, by reducing the number Of packages
required to be made under the existing rule Of dis
tribution the labor of making up the mails oan bt
materially diminished il Is thought proper to adop
the following regulations: II Is fhsrsfors ordered
That ON and after the first day of June, 1861, the
following BE- substituted in place of tho Slst regua-
ton, published in the s'Post Office Laws and
Regulations" edition of ls47.
Postmsstsrs viii carefully assert the letters de-
posted in their Offices for mailing, and will mail
them NJ follows, TO wit:
lst. Every postmaster in the New England States
will mail and postbil direct to the place TO which
they addressed al letters for post Offices in his
own or any other Nso England State. Every Other
postmaster will mail and postbill direct to the place
addressed all letters for his own State Territory;
and all postnasters will mail and postbi direct, all
letters for post Offices in other States and Terrific
ries which should not pass through distributing
Office in their proper route to the Office of delivery
Every postmaster will also postbill and mail
direct, all letters on which the Instruction ''mail
direct" shall be written.
I'd. Letters not required by the foregoing provi-
sions to be mailed direct. shall be postbiled and
mailed to the distributing Office through which
they should first pass, the proper route TO the
place Of their destination. unless the mailing office
BE- distributing Office.
Sd. All letters received at distributing Office for
distribution, deposited therein for mailing, and
which addressed to places within the State or
Territory where such distributing Office il situa-
ted, or to places not moro than one hundred miles
distant from such distributing Office, or which
would not pass through distributing Office on
their proper route to the Office Of delivery shall be
mailed dirsci but II the Office Of delivery is more
than one hundred miles from such distributing Of
fee, and the letters should properly pass through
one or moro distributing Offices, they shall DO
mailed and post billed TO the last distributing Office
through which they are to pass, on their route to
the Office of delivery. Further instructions as to
the mailing Of letters (which special accounts
required, will be addressed to- and affect only, the
distributing ofices.)
4th. Each package containing letters mailed and
postbilled direct, should be plainly directed the
outside with the of the office to which il il to
be sent, and Of the State in which such Office is sit
uatcd.
Packages containing letters for distribution.
should be plainly directed in tho same manner,
with the addition of tho letters cd. p. o." (or
Distributing Post Oice,) after the name of the Of
fee. .eee ,tr,
9th. Every Postmaster, Special Agent, other
officer of the Department, will report to the Post
master General each case which may como to his
knowledge, in which any Postmaster shall. after
the first day Of October next. have mailed letters
a. TO subject them 10 more distributions than are
authorized by the foregoing instructions.
N. X. HALL,
Postmaster General. Z.