Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-05-10
OFFICIAL.
INSTRUCTIONS TO PosTMAsTERs.

Posr OrrIcE DEPARrMESr, Mar 9, 1851.
Posmaste in making their quarterly returns, are strictly
required M the blanks at the head of each page Of their
mails received and sent and carefully to add each
and every column of said accounts They will then secsp
tulae the amount Of each column blank page Of the
accounts 8, as to enable the Auditor report quarterly the
aggregate amount Of such columns.
In view of the great increase the number Of letters to be
Mailed and Of the consequent increase Of labor in post Offices
likely be produced the law passed at the last session Of
Congress reducing the rates Of postage &c n view also
Of the fact that by reducing the number Of packages required
to be made under the existing rule Of distribution, the labor Of
making up the mai's be materially diminished il is
thought proper to adopt the following regulations
IT IS rHxREroRE oRDrRED that and after the first day
Of June 1851 the following be substituted in place Of the
slst regulation. published in the "Poss ofce Laws and
Regulations" edition Of ls47:
PosrMAsrxRs will carefully the letters deposited in
their Offices for mailing, and will mail them as follows,
to wit !,
Isl, Every Postmaster in the New England States will
mall and pos,bi direct the place TO which they are ad
dressed, oil letters for post Offices IN MS own OF any one,
Nec England State. Every other postmaster will mail and
postb direct to the place addressed all letters for his own
State or Territory and oil postmasters will mail and posbi
direct all letters for post offices in other States snd Territories
which should pass through distributing office on their
proper route to the office Of delivery. Every postmaster viii
also pos.b and mail direct all letters which the nsRuc-
ton mail direct" shall be written.
a. Letters not required by the foregoing provisions 70 Be-
mailed direct shall be posbed and mailel TO the disbut-
ing Office through which they should first on the proper
route 10 the place Of their desnaonuness the mailing
office be distributing office.
3d. All letters received distributing office for dstribu
ton or deposited therein for mailing and which address
ed to places within the State Territory where such dist
bu.ing office situated places not more than one hum
dred miles distant from such distributing Office, which
would not pass through distributing Office the proper
route "a the Office delivery shall mailed direct but the
Office Of delivery is more than hundred miles from such
distributing Office the letters should properly pass through
one or more distributing Offices they shall be mailed snd post
billed to the last distributing Office through which they to
pass on their route to the Office Of delivery.
(Further instructions the mailing Of letters Of which
special accounts nqored will be addressed to- and affect
only, the distributing offices.)
ith Each package containing letters mailed and posbled
direct should be plainly directed the outside with the name
Of the Office which il s be sent and Of the State Id
which such Office il s.,usted.
Packages containing letters for distribution should oe Ps
directed in the manner, with the addition OF the s
tiers cd p o." (for Distributing Post ofhce) aHef ne
name Of the Office.
5th Every Postmaster Special Agent or otner omcer o.
the Department will report the Postmaster ueneai eacn
case which may come to bis KNOWLEDGE 10 wncn any ros-
shall, after the fret day OF ocsoer neA NV ~
mailed letters a 10 subject them to moe dlstouuons tnan
-, .u,hor;,ad bv the foregoing insTucions
po.m..ers are notified that the post Offices cleveland,
oh nd Richmond Virginia, have been made distributing
oe.. fyo, be frst day Of June next and that the offices
os Cnmhcrlspd GAP, Kentucky, Hunts
Petersburg, Virgins, will not Dc dsT
first of July next = - u,-
may a-lsw3w