Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-03-10

registry thereof careful account being kept
of the same. All other letters deemed of
value or Of Importance to the party addressed,
or to the writer, and which it appears cannot
be returned to either destination, shall be
disposed of as the postmaster general shall
direct.
Sect. 8. And be it further enacc !, that the
postmaster general may provide by regulation
for the disposition, for the benefit of the de-
partment, of printed matter which remains in
any post office, or in the department, not
called for by the party addressed; but the
postmaster shall notify the publisher of any
newspaper or periodical of the fact when any
subscriber shall refuse to take the same from
the office, or shall neglect to call for the same
for the period Of one month, which notice
may be sent free under regulation to be pro-
vided by the postmaster general.
Sect. 10. And be it further enacted, that
the action of the post Office department re-
specting foreign dead letters shall be subject
to conventional stipulations with the respect.
i've foreign administrations.
Sect IL. And be it further enacted, that
letter carriers shall be employed at such post
offices as the postmaster general shall direct,
for the delivery of letters in the places re-
spectively where such post offices are estab-
lished; and for their services they shall sew
orally receive salary, to be prescribed by
the postmaster general, not exceeding eight
hundred dollars per year: Provided, that on
satisfactory evidence of their diligence, fidel-
ity, and experience as carriers, the postmaster
general may increase their respective salaries
from time to time to any sum not exceeding
one thousand dollars, at offices where the in
come from hostages Oh the local letters shall
yield sum more than sufficient to pay all
expenses of the carrier system at such offices;
each of the said carriers shall give bond, with
sureties, to be approved by the postmaster
general, for the safe custody and delivery of
all letters, packets, and moneys received by
him.
Sect. -. And be it further enacted, that
whenever the postmaster general shall have
perfected the carrier system in any postal dis
trict, SO as, in his judgment, to justify him
therein, he is authorized to make delivery,
within any prescribed postal district, of mail
matter by letter carriers, as frequently as the
public convenience in such district shall re-
quire, and shall make all proper regulations
for that purpose.
Sect. 10. And be it further enacted, that the
postmaster general is authorized, when in his
Judgment the public interest or convenience
may require it, to establish one or more
branch post offices, and also pillar boxes, or
other receiving boxes, for the safe deposit of
matter for the mails and for delivery and in
case OF such establishment of branch office,
the person in charge thereof shall be appoint
ed and his salary fixed, as in the case of let
ter carrier, and the like bond required: Pro-
vided, that the post officer in charge Of the
branch office may also be depository for the
sale of stamps, to be delivered to HIM for that
purpose by the postmaster of that postal dis
trict in sums not at any time to exceed one
half Of the penalty of his bond.
Sect. IA. And be it further enacted, that all
expenses for the letter carriers, branch of
fees, and receiving boxes, or incident thereto,
shall be entered and reported in a separate
account from the ordinary postal expenses of
such post office, and shall be shown in COM
parison with the proceeds Of the hostages on
local mail matter at each office, in order that
the postmaster general may be guided in the
expenditures for that branch of the postal SER
vice by income derived therefrom and all
such expenses shall be paid out of the income
of the post Office at the district i'll which they
are incurred.
Sect. 10. And be it further enacted, that the
postmaster Of any office where letter carriers
are employed may contract with the publish
-ers of any newspapers or periodicals, and with
the publishers of any circulars, for the deliv
cry by postal carriers, within his postal dis
through the mails, at rates and upon terms to
be agreed upon, such arrangement and terms
being equally open to all like publishers; but
such contract shall have no force or effect I'M
til approved by the postmaster general. The
postmaster general may also provide by regu-
lation for the delivery by such carriers of
small packets other than letters or papers, and
not exceeding the maximum weight of malta
bic packages; but such packages must be pre-
paid by postage stamps at the rate of two cents
for each four ounces or fraction thereof.
Sect. l6. And be it further enacted, that no
postmaster shall receive, to be conveyed by
the mail, any packet or package which shall
weigh more than four pounds, except books
published or circulated by order of congress.
Sect. IT, And be it further enacted, that
upon the following nfailable matter the post
age must be prepaid at the time of mailing, by
stamps, unless otherwise expressly provided
in this act:
First Upon all domestic letters, whether
passing through the mails or collected or de-
livered by postal agents or carriers.
Second. On all transient printed matter.
Third, On all seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots,
and scions; all pamphlets, books, book man
uscripts, and proOf-sheets, maps, prints, en-
cravings, blanks, flexible patterns, samples,
and sample cards, Photographic paper, letter
envelopes, postal envelopes, paper, ana pno-
tographc representations of different types.
Fourth. Upon all other things in the mail
not otherwise herein provided Tor.
Sect. Is. And be it further enacted, that
upon the following mailable matter the post
age shall be paid before delivery for not less
than one quarter nor more than one year;
and such payment for a term may be made
either at the mailing office or at the office of
delivery. If the term commences at any 9TH
er time than at the beginning of a quarter,
such payment must be made to cover such
fractional quarter, and also for the next fol-
lowing quarter; otherwise the postage shall
be collected thereon as on transient matter:
Upon regular weekly, tri-weekly, semi
weekly, and daily publications, and all other
regular publications, issued from a known
office Of publication at stated periods and sent
to regular subscribers.
Sect. 10. And be it further enacted, that
maiable matter shall be divided into three
classes, namely: first, letters; second, regu-
lar printed matter; third miscellaneous mat
ter.
Sect 90 And be it further enacted, that
the first class embraces all correspondence,
wholly or partly in writing, except that men,
toned in the third class The second class
embraces all mailable matter exclusively in
print, and regularly issued at stated periods,
without addition by writing mark, or sign.
The third class embraces all other matter
which is or may hereafter be by law declared
mailable; embracing all pamphlets, OCCASION
nj publications bonkS hnOl uanusrrints and