The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-08-27

Tamperins with the Mails.
The Daily Ne,gs, Journal Of Commerce. and Day
Book, failed to reach this city yesterday afternoon,
having been mo doubt, suppressed in the Post-ofce,
in pursuance of the order published in yesterday
mornings Exchange. As most of our readers may
not be aware of the full extent to which the laws
of the country are deliberately outraged and vio-
lated by the Postmaster General in this attempt to
restrict the operations of the Post-otice, pub
fish below such extracts from the Postal Laws as
bear most directly upon the case in question:
SEC 100 Amd be 1t further enacted, That if any
person employed in any of the departments of the post
office establishment shall unlawfuly detain, delay
open any letter packet bag mail of letters with which
he all be entrusted which shall have to his pos
session and which intended to be conveyed by post
il person shall embeZZic destroy
letter packet entrusted to such person aforesaid and
which shall not contain security for assurance
ating to money as hereinafter described every such
fender, being thereof duly convicted. shall for every
such offence be fined not exceeding three hundred dol
lars, or imprisoned not exceeding six months, both
according to the circumstances and aggravatons of the
oifence.-Sec. 81 Act Of 3D. March, 1925.
SEC. 1913. Be 1t further enacted, That, if any
person employed in any department of the postoice
shall improperly deain, delay, embezze destroy any
newspaper, shall permit any other person to do the
like, shall open, permit other person open,
any mail or packet OF newspapers not directed to the
office where he is employed, such offender shall,
vctiOn thereof forfeit not exceeding fifty dollars
for every such offence And if any other person shall
| open any mail packet of newspapers shall
embeZzle or destroy the same not BENG directed to such
person, not being authorized to receive open the
same such offender shall, conviction thereof, pay
not exceeding twenty dollars for every such offence
And fanny person shall take. steal any packet, bag
all of newspapers from, out of any post office
from any person having custody thereof such person
sha H. conviction, be imprisoned not exceeding three
months for every such offence, to be kept hard labor
during the period such Imprisonment. Sec 80 81
Sd March, 1925.
SEC. 1874 and be II further enacted That euerp person
1cho from and after the passage Of THIS act shall roc'
and ddrtse or assist in the doing or preparation Of am
Of the acts by this act Forbidden shall be sab
ject to the penalties and puniShmenS the persons
are Sdlec TO- ctO shall actually do or perpetrate any
the said acts crimes, according to the provisions Of m
| act Sec. "a, Act of Sd March, 1925
Sec 128 And be 1t further enacted That if any post
master shall unlawfuly deain in his office any letter
package, pamphlet newspaper, with intent to preven
the arrival and delivery of the to the person per
sons to whom such letter. package pamphlet newspa
per may be addressed directed in the usual
the transportation of the mail along the route; il anJ
postmaster SHALL with intent aforesaid give prefer
ence to any letter package pamphlet newspaper
another which may pass through his office by forwarding
the aud retaining the other, he SHALL conviction
thereof, be fined in not exceeding five hundred
dollars, and imprisoned for term not exceeding 81,
months and SHALL moreover be forever thereafter inca
pable of holding the Office of postmaster in the United