Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-08-09

In order 10 faclhtate the carries work
citizens must be induced to provide let
ter-boxes at their houses aud places of
business.
Where carriers are not yet employed.
Postmasters should Immediately recon
mend one or more, for appointment, Sc
leeting only Young vigorous and trust
worthy men, in whom the people may
fully eonfde.
To give this branch ofthe public ser
vice the utmost efficiency, the PostmAs
ter General has now established letter
carriers desk in connection with the
appointed division of his own department
and assigned thereto the experienced
General St John B. I. Skinner, who will
supervise the duties of the new desk in
addition 10 those of the principle clerk
ship of the appointed division.
POSTAGE STAMPS AND STAMPED ESVELoPs,
This section is specially destined to
encourage parties to purchase postage
stamps and stamped envelops as articles
| Of trade, to be resold, and thus relieve
Post-offices of the labor connected with
making sales in small quantities.
Postmasters will accordingly sell post
agestamps in quantities not less than
one hundred dollars in value, and
stamped envelops in packages contain
ing not less than fvr:huudred envelopes,
at discount Of five per cent, from the
fact value of stamps and from the cur
rant prices of envelopes, including the
stamps. T7
In order to obtain credit for the discount
thss allowed, voucher must be procur-
ed in each case, signed by the purchaser
aud Postmaster, showing the original
value of the stampSsand envelopes of each
denomination, aud amount deducted,
and the actual amount paid for them.
Postmasters viii report monthly to the
Third Assistant Postmaster General the
amount Of such sales
CORRESPONDENCE wTn FOREIGN coUS-
TRIES
| Section eight establishes uniform rates
Of United States postage. withou, regard
to distance, upon all letters, &c address
ed 10 foreign countries with which postal
/ treaties or arrangements have not been
concluded Heretofore the United
States postage on letters addressed to
such countries has varied in amount,
according to distance, ten cents the
single rate hsving been charged for dis
iance net exceeding twenty Ave hundred
miles, and twenty cents the single rate
| for any distance over two thousand
miles, bet In future the United States
postage is 10 be levied and collected at
| the Office of mailing or delivery at uni
/ form rates, as follows
Two cents per single rate, or half
ounce, on letters
Two cents each on newspapers, and
the established domestic rates eu pam
phlets, and other kind Of printed matter
These rates do not, Of course apply
to correspondence exchanged with for
eign countries under existing interna-
tional postal arrangements.
DEAD LETTERS
Sec. 10 And be IL further enacted,
/ That the 2Sth section OF the act entitled
An act to amend the laws relating to,
the Post Office Department, approved
HArch 3, 1853, be and the same is here
By amended by the addition OF the fol.
lowing. clause, namely: And when any
letter bearing request for its return to
the writer, in case of It's non-deiivery,
shall have been so returned to the Office
at which il was originally mailed, then
and in that case it shall be obligatory
upon the the person to whom such letter
has been returned, to received the same,
and to pay therefor the postage specified
in this section; and in.default Of said wri.
ter TO receive and pay for the letter SO
returned, be shall be subject 10 q penal
ty Of ten dollars, to be recovered 10 any
court Of competent jurisdiction
Section 10 Of the iaw Of March 3, 1868,
here referred to, is one Of great impor-
;anee, as it enables writer's which may
remain unclaimed, 10 receive them back
again without going through the Dead
letter Ofise. Particular attention is
called to the instructions published on
this subject in July, 1860; May, 1851. and
with section twenty-eight, Of act Of
March 3, 1868.
The present law imposes penalty Of
$40 on any person who refuses TO pay
the postage on letter returned to him
at bis own request, and Postmassers are
directed to inforce this provision against
al persons who may persist Ia such re
fusaL
sALtRIEs or PosTMAsFKRs.
The basis on which salaries will be ad-
Justed IS the aggregate compensation OF
postmasters as derived from commission,
box-rents, or other sources. Thus, un-
der the first adjustment, the salaries win
De made equal, as nearly as may be,
to the compensation heretofore received.
SECTION 2 This section contemplates
increasing saleries of postmastsrs in
proportion to the increase Of their bust.
ness; also = reduction Of their saieries
where there is diminutalion Of busi.
: ness.
Postmasters at offices Of the first, sec
Dad and third cir fsses will be specially
notified, before September 80, of the sal
sries allowed them, respectively, from
July l.
Those Of the fourth and 6ith classes
will receive commissions, as heretofore
> and render accounts accordingly, for the
quarter ending September 4, 1854 Theii
; salerses will be begin October l.
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