Arkansas democratic banner., 1851-06-03
,n.,ructions to Postmasters.
Pos. 0giee Department, Mays, 1851


 l., .sy of inc great increase in the number Of ,.,S,s io be mailed, anl the consequent increase
 i,bor m psst offices likely to be prodnced by the , n,<ssd at the last session of Congress, "Teduc- a tb, ,ates of postage" &c., in view also,1f the s,s, that by reducing the number of packages re-
 ,ai va be made under the existing rlle of dis ,,Lntian. the labor of making up the mails 1aa De m,eriaIIy diminished, t is thought proper to adopt ,Se following regulations: H IS therJ0re ordered, Thai on and after the first day ol June, 1891, the following be substituted In place Of the Sist Iegu. atlon. as published in the " Post Oihce Laws' ana Regulations,' edition of lSlI.
 posimasters will carefully assort the letters de oos;ed in their offices for mailing and will mall them as follows, to, wit
 II Every person in the New England States twill ma and postbill direct, to the place 10 which bey are addressed all letters for post offices ln his avn or any other New England State. Every other postmaster will mail and poStbil direct to the place dressed all letters for his own State or Territory; and aH postmasters will mail and postbll direct, all e,tery for post offices in other States and Territories which should not pass through distributing office of delivery.
 Every postmaster will also postblll and mail direct, all letters on which the instruction "maif direct, shah be written.
 2d Letters not required by the foregoing pro visions to be mailed direct, shall be posthiled and mailed to the distributing office through which ,hey should first pass, on the proper route to the place of their destination, unless fhe mailing otfce ,, distributing ofcs
 Sd. All letters received at distributing office for distribution, or deposited therein for mailing and which are addressed to places within the State or Territory where such distributing office, is situated or to places not more than one hundred miles dis aa from such distributing office, or which would a0 pass through distributing office on thelr pro ger route to the office of delivery, shall De maited fyeci; but if the office of delivery IS more than one sandred miles from such distributing office, and Ae letters should properly pass through one or no.e distributing oilces they shall be mailed and sSt billed to the last distributing office through Ehch they to pass on their route to the office A delivery. Further instructions as to the mail Gs9f letters or which special accounts are required, WI be addressed to, and affect only, distributing ltces
 ith Each package containing letters mailed and postbiled direc should be plainly directed on the outside with the name of the office to which it is to be sent and Of the State in which such office is situated,
 Packages containing letters for distribution, should be plainly directed in the same manner with the addition of the letters D. P. O. (for Distributing Post 0ffice,) after the name of the office.
 5ih Every Postmaster, Special Agent or other officer of the Department, will report to the Post master General each case which may come to his saowledge, m which any Postmaster shall, after ihe first day October next have so mailed letters as to subject them to more distributions than are authorized by the foregoing instructions,
 N. K. HALL, F. M. Gen.