Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1864-09-24

tiers of aitorn-y for r-c-iving annuiiies of di,
bends. or for selling s,ock in the funds. %
for receiving the inter-s, thereof, OF any let
ter OF credit, or note for or relating to payment
of moneys, or any bond. OF warrant. draft. bill
or proni-sory note. covenant, contract, II
agr-'inrnt, Whatsoever, for, or relating TO.
the payment Of money or the delivery Of any
article OF value, the performance OF any.
act. matter, or thing. any receipt, release.
acquittance. or discharge of. or from, any
debt covenant, or demand. or any part there
Of or any copy of any record ofany judgment.
or decree. in any court Of law, or chancery,
or any execution which may have issued
thereon, or any copy Of any other record, or
any other article Of value, or any writing rep.
rrsrnting the same; or If any such persons.
employed as aforesaid. shall steal, or take.
any Of the same out of any letter, packet. bag
or mail of letters, that shall come to his or
her possession, whether such letter or packet,
bag or mail of letters, shall have come or
been placed in his or her possession to be
forward or delivered in the regular course of
his or her official duties, or shall have come
or been placed in his or her possession in any
other manner, and provided that such letter
or packet, 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 impris.
oncd 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 by authority of
the Postmaster General of the United States,
or in any other authorized depository OF mail
letters, or in charge of any postmaster, as
sistant postmaster, clerk, carrier, agent, or
messenger employed in the post Office estab-
lishment ofthe United States, shall be taken
and held as evidence that the same was "in.
tended to be conveyed by post" within the
meaning of this statute and if any person
who shall have taken charge Of the mails Of
the United States shall voluntarily quit Or
desert the same before such person delivers it
into the post Office kept at the termination of
the route. or some known mail carrier, or agent
Of the General Post Office, authorized to re-
ceivc the san,e every such person, so Offend
ing. shall forfeit and pay sum not ex-
cecding five hundred dollars, for every such
offence aud il any person concerned in car
rying the mail OF the United States shall COL
lect receive. or carry any letter, or packet,
or shall cause or procure the same to be done,
contrary to this act. every such offender, shall
forfeit and pay for every such offrnce sum
not exceeding fifty dollars.-Sccti0n twenty-
one. Act IF March three, eighteen hundred
and twenty-five.
Sec l3. Ind he 1t further enacted, That
dead letters containing valuable enclosures
shall be registered in the department; and
when it appears that they can neither be de-
livered to their address nor to the writers, the
contents thereof, so far as available, shall be
used to promote the efficiency of the Dead
Letter Office, according to the provisions of
the seventh sections OF act approved February
ltwenty-sevcnth. eighteen hundred and sixty
| one, entitled "An act to establish certain
lost routes." and the amount thereof shall be
shown in the annual report, and shall b.
subject to reclamation by either the party ad-
dressed or by the sender for four years from
registry thereof, careful count 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.
SEC. IA. And he 1t .tarther 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.
sprctivrly, where suclf post Offices are estab-
lishcd and tor their services they shall sew
orally receive salary, to b. prescribed by
the Postmaster General, not exceeding eight
hundred dollars per year: Prorided. That
on satisfactory evidence Of their diligence.
fd litv and experience es carriers. the Post
ina. t,r General may increase their respective
salaries from time to time to any sum not cx-
c..ling one thousand dollars and each Of
th, said carriers shall give bond, with sureties
10 be approved by the Postmaster General,
for the safe custody and delivery Of all letters
packets. and money received by him.
Sec. Is. .4xd be 1t further enacted. That
all expenses for the Liter-carrirrs. branch
Offices, and receiving boxes. or incident there
to. shall b. entered aud reported in separate
account from the ordinary postal expenses Of
such post Office. and shall be- shown IN CON-
pa,son with the proceeds Of the Postag's OH
local mail matter at each Office. in order that
the Postmaster General may be guided in the
expenditure for that branch Il the postal ser
VIC. by income derived sh-refrom-
See 10. isi BE- 1t further enacted. That
thu eighth. fourf-~nih seventeenth. and eigh-
,.eu,h section ot the act entitled An ses to
am,nd thu laws relating ta the Pest Of6e- De-
pr.,meni." approved March three. eieh'eeo
hundred and sixty ihrre. the provisions OF
which have be-n modified and incorporated
in this act. br. aud the same are hereby re-
Peal'-d.
See. IL. Had h Il fsnler sAaoed. That
the special .g-ta OF sl.- ''cst Once Depart
mcnf in the Pacific states and Territories
sh II receive rs compensation Eve dou.rs pr
diem
Approved, July 1854.