The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-05-10


every column of said accounts. They will then
capitulate the amount of each column ON the last
page OF the account, az to enable the Auditor to
report quarterly the aggregate amount OF said CO.
lumns. zt
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 to be produced by
the law passed at the last session of Congress- re.
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 existing rule of dis
tribution, the labor Of making up the mails be
materially diminished, it il thought proper to adopt
the following regulations: II IL therefore ordered.
That on and after the first day Of June, 1851, the
following be substituted in place Of the Slst regula-
ton, az published in tho "Post Office Laws and
Regulations" edition of is47.
Postmasters will carefully assert the letters de-
posted in their Offices for mailing, and will mail
them as follows, to wit:
LIST. Every postmaster in the New England States
will mail and postbil direct, TO the place to which
they addressed. all letters for post offices in his
own or any other Neg England State. Every other
postmaster will mail and postbil direct to the place
addressed, all letters for his State or Territory;
and all postmastcrs will mail and postbill direct all
letters for post Offices in other States and Terrific
ries which should not pass through distributing
Office on their proper route to the Office of delivery
Every postmaster will also postbill and mail
direct, all letters which the instruction Email
direct shall be written.
I'd. Letters not required by the foregoing provi-
sions to be mailed direct. shall be postbled 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 office
be a distributing office.
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 il stu
ated or to places not more than hundred miles
distant from such distributing Office, or which
would not pass through distributing Office
mailed direct, but if the office of delivery is more
than one hundred miles from such distributing Of
flee, and the letters should properly pass through
one or more distributing offices, they shall be
mailed and pOstbiled to the last distributing Office
through which they are to pass, on their route to
the office of delivery Further instructions to
the mailing Of letters of which special accounts
required, will be addressed to- and affect only the
18th. Each package containing letters mailed and
postbilled direct should be plainly directed the
outside with the name of the office to which il is to
be sent, and of the State in WHICH such Office is sit
uated.
Packages containing letters for distribution
should be plainly directed in the same manner,
with the addition of the letters cd. p. or (for
Distributing Post Ofice) after the name Of the Of
flee.
5th. Every Postmaster, Special Agent, or other
officer Of the Department, will report to the Post
master General each case which may come to his
knowledge, in which any Postmaster shall, after
the first day Of October next, have mailed letters
AZ to subject them to moro distributions than are
authorized by the foregoing instructions.
Cleveland, Ohio, and Richmond, Virginia, have
been made distributing offices from the first day of
June next and that the offices at Cumberland Gap,
Kentucky, Huntsvie, Alabama, and Petersburg,
Virginia, will not be distributing offices after the
first of July next.
N. X. HALL. Postmaster General. Z.
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