Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-08-11
POl01 1f fOGAL.
New Postage Act.
NOTICE TO TIE PUBLIC AND INSTRUCTIONS
TO POST. MASTERS

NOTICE TO TIE PUBLIC AND INSTRUCTIONS
TO POST. MASTERS.
The following is u recent enactment of Con
grcss: BE II enacted By tic ,Senatc amt
N,@$e 4f Representatives Of tie Unitcd States
of Ancrjcu In COmyresS aSScnLlcd, That
when any person shall endorse on any letter
his or her name and alacc of residence, MS
writer thereof, the same, after remaining un-
called for at the Office to which it is directed
thirty days, or the time the wrtcr may direct,
shall be returned, by mail, to said writer; and
no such letters shall be advertised nor shall
the same be treated as dend letters, until so
returned to the post office of the writer, and
there remain uncallcd for one quarter
nder this law the postmaster will observe
the following regulations:
a letter OH which the writer has cnt1orsml
his or her name, and place of residence, wih-
ont direction ns to time of remaining uncallcd
for, must be returned, by mail to such writer,
after tile expiration of thirty days
When, in addition to the name and resi-
dencc of the writer the time for holding a
letter (whcthcr more or less than thirty days)
is specified, such time must be observed.
The law, strictly interpreted, requires that
INC n''"c and residence of the writer shall be
cr.HcH on the letter.
\ simple business card 1,rintod on a letter
is therefore not to be- regarded unless person
shall endorse on it., in trriiiug, his or her
rune as writer thereof, agrccably to the terms
of the law.
The date of receiving such letters must be
carefully stamped or written on them, and also
the dates when re-mailcd.
~ regular account must be kept of lcttera
returned showing the name and address nf
the writer, to whom sent, the date of re mail
ing, and the name of the person to whom
originally addressed, with the periods during
which they remained uncalled for A similar
account should be kept Of % rctuMcd letters"
received. In making up mails, the nun,Jcr
of such letters sent should be specially noted
on Post Bills
Send copies to the Dead Letter Office week
ly, twice month, monthly, or once in six
weeks, according to the classification of Reg
ulation ISL
Across the .fuce Of such 1ehcrs should be
plainly written or stamped the words /" Re
hUNcd To wTtey"
Such letters arc in no case to be advertised
either at the Office to which originally ad
dressed or at the one 10 which returned.
no additional postage is clargcube for re-
tu"ninS letters to the writer's.
DEAD LETTERS.
JDt-ulilSICTS "tN CiIuiDSu ~
cudorsc on letters treated as dead" under
lth chapter of the Reguat.. "s. the reasons
Tor returning them also 10 mark u. '" as re-
4uired by section l97 Section 1877, reu...'-
ring ie'ters from foreign countries to be re- |
turned ut the expiration of one month, after
having been duly advertised, is repealed. - |!
such lcttero should be retained, like others,
three months after advertising them They
shol'd be put up in separate packages, aud
marked "Foreigu Dead Letters" Letters de-
scrbcd in section 1SS should be returned i'm, |
mEat"!cty, and not retained one month
ADVERTISING LETTERS.
Post-masters will be careful to advertise
letters, as directed by section lSl of the Reg
allntons.
The majority of Offices advertise only once
in three months, whereas even tho smallest |
class arc required to advertise onco in six |
syceks.
All the city Offices should regularly ex-
change advertised lists, and examine them |
with view to discover mis-directcd letters.
1t is equally important such exchanges |
should be made between all Offices, of what
ever class, having the same or similar names |
The following Acts have also been passed,
and are now in force, viz:
AN ACT AUTnoBIzTNG PUBLISHERS TO PRINT |
on THEIR PApLRs THE DArE WHEN SUB
scg:PtIo%s ExrIGE, AND ~ RELATIcM TO |
THE POSTAGE ON DROP LETTERS
BE II eoacted IY Mc Senate and Housc or |
R'PreAeatdtivescf tie United Stdtesof Amer |
fra IL C5RgrAss assembled, That the second
clause of section third of the Act of thirtieth
SuSGss eighteen hundred and fifiy-two, es-
tablisbing tho ratio Of postage on printed mat.
ter, is hsrebJ so modified as to oread as follows,
namely: iloiI
Second Tiie'e shall bo no word or com,
lnuuicaton printed on the samo after its Iasb-
licatlon, or upon tho cover or wrappeg thereof,
except the name, the date when the subscrip-
tiOn expires, and the address Of the person 20 :