The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-05-17
INsTRucTIOss TO PosrMAsTERs.

Posr OrFIcE DEPARTMENT, May 8. 1851.
nOSTMASTERS, in making their quarterly re-
Il turns, stricfiy required 70 fill the blanks at
the head Of each page Of their accounts Of mails re-
ceived and sent, and carefully to add each and
every column of said accounts. They will then re-
capitulate the amount of each column ON the last
page of the account, TO enable tho Auditor 70
report quarterly the aggregate amount OF said CO.
lumns
In view Of the great increase in the number Of
letters to be macd and of the consequent increase
of labor in post Offices likely to be produced BY
the law passed at the last session Of Congress, Gre
ducing the rates Of postage" &C.; in view also Of
the fact that, by reducing the number of PACKAGES
required to be made under the existng rule Of dis
tribution the labor of making up the mails can be
materially Diminished. il is thought proper to adopt
the following regulations: II Is ther.fors ordered.
That on and after the first day of June, 1851, the
following be substituted in place Of the 8lst regula
ton, as published in the "Post Office Laws and
Regulations" edition Of 1547.
Postmasters will carefully assert the letters de-
posted in their offices for mailing, and will mail
them az follows, to wit:
will mail and postbil direct TO the place TO which
they arc addressed all letters for post offices in his
own or any other Netc England State. Every ofAsr
postmaster will mail and posbi direct to the place
addressed, all letters for his own State or Territory;
and all postmasers will mail and postbi direct all
letters for post offices in other States and Terrific
ries which should not pass through distributing
Office on their proper route 70 the ocs o. delivery;
f>~sNsss -.
direct, all letters which the instruction "maI
direct shall be written.
I'd. Letters not required by the foregoing provi-
sons to be mailed direct, shall be p0stbilled and
mailed TO the distributing Office through which
they SHOULD frat pass, on the proper route TO the
place Of their destination, unless the mailing ctsee
be distributing office.
3D. All letters rec eved at distributing Office TOR
distribution, or deposited therein for mailing and
which arc addressed to any other distributing
office. or to places within the State or Territory
where such distributing office is situated, or to
places not more than one hundred miles distant
from such distributing office, or which would
not pass through distributing Office on the prop
er route to the Office Of delivery, shall be mailed
direct; but if the Office Of delivery is more than
one hundred miles from such distributing Office.
and the letters should properly pass through one
or more distributing Offices, they shall be mail
ed and postbied to the last distributing office
the office of delivery. (Furtber instructions as to
the mailing Of letters of which special accounts are
required will be addresscd to, and affect osly, the
distributing ofices) ~
postbilled direct, should be plainly directed ON the
outside with the name Of the office to which It 10 to
be sent, and of the State in which such Office IL ait
| uated.
Packages containing letters for distribution
should be- plainly directed in the manner.
with the addition of the letters I'D. p. o." (tor
Distributing Post Otfce) after the name Of the Of
flee.
5th Every Postmaster, Special Agent. or other
officer Of the Department, will report 10 the Post
master General each case which may come to his
knowledge, in which any Postmaster shall. after
the frat day OF October next, have mailed lettera
as to subject them to more distributions than ara
authorized by the foregoing instructions.
Postmasters are notified that the post offices at
Cleveland, Ohio. and Richmond, Virginia. have
been made distributing Offices from the fret day Of
juno next; and that the offices at Cumberland Gap.
Kentucky, Huntsville, Alabama. and Petersburg.
Virginia. will not be distributing offices alter the
fret of July next.
N. K. HALL. Postmaster General.
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