The North-Carolinian., 1853-03-26
NEW .PosT oFFic1ELAws.

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The f.llo~ing secsiass fe in the Post.
route Dill which passrsI 9TH Houses O
Cengvcss aud are now 1s Il:
sssJsalroad. made Pee Ro"tee
Sec. S. Aud be It ,her enacted.
That all railroads and of Railroads
which are now or hcre1sIrr NAY be ina
operation, be. aud the <>lhe are hereby,
declsred - the post rosds1 stl Me Post
ma<ter General may cOnJA CT Tor Carr wing
the mails thereon accof HE1te exss''ox
laws ss.xs.s.s5-.
! tes eo,npepsa,iop q zsesi no.
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from and after the FIRST Of Aprii next. n
place .Of the compensation now allowed
deputy postmasters. the Postmaster Gen
eral be. and is hereby. authorized to al
low them Com issi0ns at the following
rates. ~'n the postage collected at their
respective offices. in each quarter, viz: on
any sum not exceeding one hundred dol
lars. fifty per cent. but an postmaster at
whose office the mail is to arrive between
The hours o! hine O'Clock at night and five
clock in the morning. s.ay be; allowed
sixty per cent. on the first hundred dol
lars; on every sum over aud above one
hundred dollars. but not exceeding Enur
hundred dollars. forty per cent. on every
sum over and above four bundre.l dollars.
but not exceeding twenty foDr hundred
dollars. thirty five per cent; on evcry sum
exceeding twenty-lour hundred dollars fif.
teen per cent.
And on the amount Of posta.es on let
ters and packages received at II distribu-
ting Office for distribution. the postmaster
at suchsdistribuling office may be allowed
ten per cent. Every pn>t,naster whose
compensation shall not exceed five hun
ired dollars in one quarter. shall be allow
ell one cent for every free letter delivered
out Of his office. excepting such as are for
the postmaster himself. But the special
allowance now made by law to the post
masters at New Orleans aud Washington
city shall not otherwise be either increased
or diminished. Each postmaster who
| shall be required to keep IA register Of the
arrival and departure ot the mails, shall be
allowed ten cents for each monthly return
which he makes to the Postmaster Gener
al Each postmaster may be allowed tive
mills for delivering from bis office I" a
| su bst ribrr each newspaper rot charsrable
with postage; Provided. tAa, the c" ".n"'s
shall be subject to the provisions Of ,Ir.
forty first section Of the act ehtnsees '.An
act'' t" reduce into one the several act,
establishing and regulating the Post Oihce
department. approved March the third,
eighteen hundred and twenty 1--WE.
| Forged Envelopes, &c.
Sec. 7 provides against all kinds ol
countcrfeiting. imitation ~.,fyery Of the
p"stage stamps aud envelopes. making the
penalty. on conviction. a hne not exceed.
ing five hundred dollars. or Imprisonment
MT exceeding five years, or by both such
fine and imprisonment.
Sec makes it the duty Of every post
master to cause to be detace,t. in such
| manner AS the Postmaster General may
direct. all letter envelopes with p'~t>2t
stamps thereon, which may be deposited
| in his Office for conveyance in the mail !;
and provides that, IL any person shall u>-
or attempt to use. for the conveyance "f
any letter or other mailablc matter. bv
mail or otherwise such envelope. such per
son shall b. !,.5c :. --D .i,y Of $50.