Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-03-22

From praris du q ian, wa Lecobss; lewis Mills.
Douglass Mills, Eau Gset's Mills. Hush River Settle.
ment, Prescott and Po Douglass 10 Saint Paus Mime
sofa Terrtory IL
From Cassvile via Beertown Lancaster, New Cali.
fornia and Miflin, to Mineral Point in Iowa county
From La Crosse in the county of La Crosse, to 0ns,
laska
From Prairie tu Chen via Boydstown, Richland
Creek and Richmond to Muscoda
From Portage City, in Columbia county, via Beaver
Creek Crooked Lake. Buena Vista and Pover, to Ste
vens' Point in Portage county
IN OREGON TERRITORY
From Salem, via Doke's Ferry, to Lafayette
The mail route from Panama to Astoria is hereby
extended Fort Stilacoom and Olympias, Pugets
Sound
SEC. g. And5ea further enacted, That the Postmaster
General be autho ised and required to establish mail
between Bainbridge and Apasachlcola.
SIC. B. And belt further endced That all railroads and
parts ofraroads whchare now hereafter may be in
operation, be. and the hereby declared to be
roads, and the Postmaster General may for
carrying the mails thereon according existing laws
the Treasury for the Post Office Department be- and he
hereby authorized to allow the pos tmaser Richmond
Virginia, and the postmaster at Cleveland Ohio the
same comm ssion all maabe matter distributed at
therrespecti,e Offices, is allowed by law the post
of the other distributing offices; such allowance
to date the first day oJune thousand eight hun
bred and fifty
SEC s. And be at further enacted That hereafter as
the Office of Assistant Postmaster General either of
them shall be vacated ,he appointment of his
shall be made by the President of the United Staes by
and with the advice and consent fthe Senate.
SEC 6. And be 1t further enacted, That from and
after the first day OF April place OF the compen.
sation allowed deputy 0smasters, the Postmaster
General and he is hereby, authorized allow them
commissions at the following rate on the postage col
1ected at their respective Offices, in each quarter viz
any not exceeding hundred dollars, fifty per
cent but any postmaster at whose office the mail is to
arrive regularly between the hours OF nine o'clock at
night and five O'Clock the morning, may be allowed
sixty per cent. the first hundred dollars every
and above hundred dollars. but exceed
ing four hundred dollars forty per cent every
and above tour hundred dollars but exceeding
twenty four hundred dollars thirty five per cent on
every sum exceeding twenty four hundred dollars, ff
teen per cent.
And on the amount of hostages letters and packa.
ges received at dis ributng Office for dsfribttion the
postmaster at such disrlbu ing office may be allowed
ten per Cent Every postmaster whose COMPENSATION
shall not exceed five hundred dollars in one quarter,
shall be allowed cent for every free letter delivered
out OF his Office, excepting such for the pc
ter himself. But the special allowance made by
law to the postmasers at New ORLEANS aid Washing
ton city shall not otherwise be either ncre ased or Dr..
minshed. Each postmaster who shall he REQUIRED to
keep register of the arrival and departure Of the mails
shall be allowed ten cents Tor each mon lilly return
! which he makes to the Postmast General. Each
postmaster may be allowed two mills for delivering from
his office subscriber each newspaper not chsrgea-
bic with postage: Provided That the commissions and
| allowances hereby authorized shall be subject the
provisions of the forty first sect Of the entitled
AN act TO reduce the several acts establishing
ane regulating the Post Office Department, approved
March the third, eighteen hundred and twenty five.
SEC Z And be further enacted. That any person
who shall forge or counterfeit any postage stamp i'm
section OF act entitled An establish
roads, and for other purposes approved August thirty
first eighteen hundred and fifty two by any other act
who shall counterfeit any die plate engraving there
for; who shall make print knowingly use or SELL
or have in his possession with intent or SELL any
such false forged coun.erfeited de- plate engraving
or stamped envelopes who shall make or knowingly
use or SELL or have in his possession with intent
SELL any paper bearing the mark of such letter
envelopes any fraudulent imitation thereof; or who
shall make print authorize procure be made
printed any stamped printed letter envelope of the
kind provided by the Postmaster General under the au
thorty aforesaid, without the especial direction of the
Post Office Department; who after such letter enve.
opes have been prepared printed SHALL with intent to
deraud the of the Post Office Department de-
liver any such letter envelopes any or persons
such shall be authorized to receive the
by instrument of writing duly executed under the hand
OF the Postmaster General and the seal of the Post Of
ice Department. SHALL conviction thereof, be deemed
guilty of felony, and be punished by fine exceeding
five hundred dollars by imprisonment not exceeding
five years, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
SEC. g. And be Il further enacted, That it shall be the
duty OF every postmaster to be deaced in such
manner the Postmaster General may direct all letter
envelopes with postage stamps tFereon which may be
deposited in his Office for conveyance in the mail and if
any postmaster sending such envelopes in the mail shall
omit to deace the it shall be the duty efthe postmas
ter to whose office such envelope shall be for deve
deace them and report the delinquent post
to the Postmaster General And any shall
tempt to for the conveyance Of any letter her
maane matter thing,s over any post road of the u
States, either by mail otherwise, any such stamped
person shall be liable to penalty of fifty dollars Be
ed in the Of the United States any court
| having competent jurisdiction. 7a ~ -
~ Approved March 3, 1853.