Nebraska advertiser., 1858-02-04
GENERAL oRDERs-No Is.

December 80 1857.
/. Arrangements having been made
by the Post Office Department to establish
i. mediately, weekly mail from Leaven-
worth city as far as Fort Kearney, the
mail between that point and Fort Lara.
mie and the nearest station of the troops
in Utah by the commanding officer OF
Fort Laramie.
As nearly as possible these mails will
be semi-monthly, on the first and fifteenth
of each mynth.
The commanding officers of Forts
Kearney and Laramie will give their per.
sonal attention to this duty, and will con-
fer freely with each other, and actin con-
cert in relation to it.
AT each post an exact account will be
kept of henumber of letters, documents
&C., received and sent, with the date OF
their recei pit and transmission.
The letters, documents, &C., to be sent
in the mail will be made into convenient
packages, enclosed in stout wrappers, and
sealed. The several packages in each
mail will be numbered, and the number of
letters, &C., in each written upon it
With the mail a letter will be sent to the
commanding officer of the next station,
giving him list of the packages sent,
with the number of enclosures in each. 4
The receipt of the mail will be acllnow-
lodged, and any deficiencies in it noted,
by return mail.
The commanding officer of Fort Kear-
ney will put the mail for Fort Laramie,
and the posts beyond, in separate pack
ages; and if on their receipt at Fort La
ramie the seals of the latter have not
been disturbed, they will be forwarded
without being opened. The same with
respect to packages coming from Utah for
places this side of Fort Laramie.
II. The commanding officer in Utah
will give orders to the commanding Off
Ger of the station receiving the mails from
Fort Laramie TO act in conformity hereto
and will give such further instructions as
may be necessary for the safe and speedy
collection and distribution of the mails
from and to the various stations and indi-
viduals within his command.
III. When any letter, document, &C.,
marked on official business, comes in the
mail to Fort Kearney, underpald, the
commanding officer of the post will cause
his acting assistant quartermaster to pay
the amount due, that the letter may be
ia zen out of the post office and sent to its
address; and any letter. &C., marked on
official business, coming TO Fort Kearney
in the military mails without stamp, will
be prepaid there in like manner, and
mailed
w. The General commanding the De-
partment of the War will, hereafter, as
experience shall show them to be neces-
saty, make such notifications In these de-
tails as will further tend to the regular
and safe transmission of mails within his
command and as far as the first military
station in Utah, and will insure a strict
accountability, from the several officers
| concerned, of all mail matters passing
through their hands
V. As the commanding officers of
Forts Kearney and Laramie may not
have now at their posts, nor be able al
this season, to obtain there the necessary
means to enable them to discharge the
duties herein laid upon them, as the gar
rison of Fort X army isv eak in numbers
and as the service o. D alaware, Shawnee
or other civilized Indians, can, it has
Iheen represented. he advanlag ou>ly en-
j I'll yed in the mail service, not only from
For; Kearnvto Fort Laramia Tut hevond
the latter, tie comma ding officer Of tie
troors in Kansas viii Immediately on the
ttere,f, take th 70 loving measures
l.t. To engage the service of Ten Of
| the most reliable and experienced d la.
ware, Shawnee, or other civilized Indian;
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