Santa Fe gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1859-1864, 1864-08-27

post Office establishment Of the UHlted
Sialcs, Or to be Forwarded or delivered
through OF from any post Office or branch
post Office established by authority Of the
Postmaster General Of the United States,
such letter, packet, bag, or mail Of letters,
containing any note, draft check, revenue
stamp, postage stamp, money order, certl-
cate of stock, or other pecuniory obliga-
ton, or Government security Of any de
cripton whatever issued that may here
after be issued by the United States, or
by any officer or fiscal agent thereof any
bank note Or bank post bill, bill or eychan-
&c, warrant Of the Treasury Of the United
States, not of assignemcnt of stock in the
funds, letters of attorney for receiving an
nui.ies or dividends, or for selling stock in
the funds, or for receiving the interest the
reof, or any letter of credit, or note for, or
relating to, payment Of moneys or any
bond, or warrant, draft, BILL or promissary
note, convonant contract, Disagreement,
whatsoever for, orrelating ID, the pay
ment Of money or the delivery of any art-
Gle OF value, or the performance ofany act,
matter, or thing, or any receipt, release,
acquttauce, Or discharge of, or from, any
debt, covenant, Or demand, or any part
thereof, Or any copy Of any record Of any
Judgment Or decree, in any court Of law,
or chonccry, or any execution which may
have issued thereon, Or any copy of any
other record, or any other article Of value,
or any writing representing the same; or
if any such person, employed as aforesaid,
shall steal, or take, any Of the same ont of
ANY letter. packet, bag or mail Of letters,
ihnt shall come TO his or her possession,
whether such letter Or packet, bag or mail
Of letters, shah have como or been placed
in his or her possession to be forwarded OF
delivered in the regular course of his or
her official duties, or shall have come or
been placed in his or her possession III any
other manner, and provided that such let
ter or rpackct, bag or mail Of letters, shall
not have been delivered to the person or
persons to whom it is directed, such person
shall, on conviction for any such offence
be imprisoned not less than ten years, nor
exceeding twenty one years; and the fact
that any such letter or packet, bag or mail
Of letters, shall have been deposited in any
post Office or branch post Office established
hy authority Of the Postmaster General Of
the United States, or in any other aulhoi-
zed depository Of mail Ietters, or in charge
Of any postmaster, assistant postmaster,
clerk, carrier, agent, or messenger employ.
ed in the post Office establishment of the
United States, shall be taken and held as
evidence that the same was intended to
be conveyed by post within the nearing
of this statute; and if any person who shall
have taken charge Of the mails of the Unit
ed States shall voluntarily quit or desert
the same before such person delivers il into
the post Office kept at the termination of
the route, or some known mail carrier, or
agent of the General Post Office, authoriz-
ed to receive the same, every such person,
50 offending, shall forfeit and pay a sum
not exceeding i've hundred dollars, for ev-
cry such offence; and ifany person concer
ned in carrying the mail of the United
States shall collect, receive, or carry any
letter, Or packet, or shall cause or procure
the same to be done, contrary to this act
oycry such offender shall forfeit and pay,
for every such offence, Snm net exceeding
fifty doIllrs.-Section twenty-oue, Act Of
March three, eighteen hundred and twenty
five. ..
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted That
dead letters containing valuable enclosures
shall bo registered in the Department; and
when it appears that they can neither be
delivered to their address nor to the writ.
crs, the contents thereof so for as avaiIa-
ble, shall be used to promote the efficiency
Of the Dead Letter Office, according to the
provisions of the seyeath section of act
approved February twenty-sevenlh eigh'
teen hundrcd and sixty-one, entitled "An
act TO establish certain post routes" and
the amount thereof shall be shown in the
annual report, and be subject to recama-
ton by either the party addressed or by
the sender for four years from registry
thereof, careful account being kept Of the
same. al other letters deemed OF value
or Of importance to the party addressed, or
to the writer, and which ii appears cannot
he returned to either destination, shall be
disposed Of as the Postmaster General shall
direct.
Sec. a. And be it further enacted, That
letter-carrieys shall be employed, at such
post Offices as the Postmaster General shall
direct, for the delivery of letters, in the
places respectively, where such post offices
are established; and for their services they
shall s9yeuIly receive salary, TO be pres
cHbed by the Postmaster General: Proyid-
ed, That, ON satisfactory evidence Of their
diligence, fidelity, and experience as car
riers, the Postmaster General may increa-
Sc their respective salaries from time to
time to any sum not exceeding one thou
sand dollars; aud each Of the said carriers
shall give bond, with suretes, to be appro.
we'd by the Postmaster General, for the
sare custody and delivered Of all letters.