The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-17

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The Postmaster General has iaesed his In
sfructiops - to the mailing Of the letters ~
newspapers, deposited in tho post oh1ee, stIss
the first Of June next
INSTRUCTIONS TO roer MAsTEKa
| Posr OfiicE DEPAxrmEsr, May 8, l85l.-
Postmasters, in making their quarterly returns,
are strictly required to gil the blanks At the head
OF each page of their accounts Of mails received
and sent, and carefully 10 add sach and every
column Of said accounts. They will then 70
capitulnte the amount Of each column On 4
blank page Of the account; 80 a. to enable the
Auditor 70 report quarterly the pggregnte
amount OF each column.
In view Of the great increase In the number
Of letters to be mailed, and of the consequent
increase Of labor in post Offices likely 70 BE- pro-
duced by the law passed at the last session of
Congress, g reducing the rates Of postage," DE-;
10 view, also, of the fact that, by reducing the
number Of packages required to be made under
the existing rule of distribution, the lsbor Of
making up the mails can be materially dimin-
ished, it is thought proper to adopt the follow
ing regulations;
| II is therefore ordered. that on and after the
frst DAY OF June, 1901 N
Postmasters will carefully assert the letters
deposited in their Offices for mailing, and will
| mail them as follows, to wit:
lst Every postmaster in the New England
States will mail, and post bill direct to the place
to which they are addressed, all letters for post
offices in his own or any other Nep Eaglond
State Every other postmaster will mail and
post bill direct to the place addressed all letters
for his own State or Territory; and all post
masters will mail and post bill direct all let
ters for post offices in other States and Terrific
ries, which should not pass through distribu-
ting Office on their proper route to the Office Of
delivery Every postmaster will also post bill
and mail direct all letters on which the iustruc-
ton small direct shall be written.
3D. Letters not required by the foregoing
provisions to be maed direct, shall be post
billed and mailed to the distribution office
through which they should first pass on the
proper route to the place of their destination
unless the mailing office BE- a distributing o6rce
Sd. All letters received at a distributing Of.
flee for distribution, or deposited therein for
mailing, and which are addressed to any other
distributing Office, or to places within the State
or Territory where such distribution office is sit
uated, or to places not more than one hundred
miles distant from such distributing office, or
which would not pass through distributing
office on the proper route to the Office Of deliv-
cry shall be mailed direct but if the Office of de-
livery is more than one hundred miles from such
distributing Office, and the letters should pro-
perly pass through one or more distributing
Offices, they shall be mailed and postbilled to
the last distributing Office through which they
are to pass on their route to the office Of de-
livery
(Further instructions as to the mailing of let
tiers OF which special accounts are required, will
be addressed to, and affect only, the distributing
oflices.)
4th. Each package containing letters mailed
and post billed direct 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 distributions
should be plainly directed in the same manner.
with the addition of the letters "D p. O." (for
distributing Post Ofiice') after the name Of
the Office
9th. Every postmaster, special agent, or
other officer of the Department, will report 10
the Postmaster General each case which NAV
come to his knowledge in which any Postmas-
ter shall, after the first day of October next, have
so mailed letters to subject them TO more dis.
tributions than are 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 first
day Of June next; and that the Offices of Cum
berland Gap, Kentucky, Huntsville, Alabama.
and Petersburg, Virginia will not be distributing
offices after the first of January next
N. X. HALL, Postmaster General.