Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-01-05

as aforesaid snail secrete, embeZzle, or destroy
any letter, packet, bag, or mail of letters,
with which he or she shall be intrusted, or
which shall have come to his or her possess
sion, and are intended to be conveyed by post,
or to be carried or delivered by any mail car
fier, mail messenger, letter carrier, route
agent, or other person employed in any of the
departments of the post Office establishment
OF the United States, or TO be forwarded or de-
Iivered through or 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 con-
tanning any note, bond, draft, check, revenue
stamp, postage stamp, money order, certificate
of stock, or other pecuniary obligation, or
Government security of any description what
ever issued, or that may hereafter be issued
by the United States or by any officer or fiscal
agent thereof, any bank note or bank post
bill, bill of exchange, warrant of the Treasury
OF the United States, note of assignment of
stock in the funds, letters of attorney for re-
ceiving annuities or dividends, or for selling
stock in the funds, or for receiving the interest
thereof, or any letter of credit, or note for, or
relating to, payment OF moneys, or any bond,
or warrant, draft, or bill, or promissory
note, covenant, contract, or agreement, what
soevcr, for, or relating to, the payment of
money, or the delivery OF any article of value,
OF the performance Of any act, matter, or
thing, or any receipt, release, acquittance, 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 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 representing the same !;
or II any such person, employed as aforesaid,
shall steal, or take, any Of the same out of
any letter, packet, bag or mail of letters. that
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such letter or packet, bag or mail Of letters,
shall have come or been placed in his or her
possession to be forwarded 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 let
tiers, shall not have been delivered to the per-
son or persons to whom it is directed, such
person shall, on conviction for any such Of
fence, 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 by a,l-
thority of the Postmaster General of the Uni
ted States, or in any other authorized deposi.
tory Of mail letters, or in charge of any post
master, assistant postmaster, clerk, carrier
agent, or messenger employed in the postoffice
establishment of the United States, shall be
intended to be conveyed by posi-" within
the meaning of this statute and if any per-
son who shall have taken charge of the mails
of the United States shall voluntarily quit or
desert the same before such person delivers
1t into the postofice kept at the termination
OF the route or some known mail carrier or
agent Of the General Postoffice, authorized TO
receive the same, every such person, so offend
ing, shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding
hundred
and il any person concerned 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, every such offender shall forfeit and pay,
for every such offence, sum not exceeding
fifty dollars Section trenty-one, Ac of March
three, eighteen hundred and Twenty-Five.
Sec. ID. And be IL further enacted. That dead
letters containing valuable enclosures shall be
registered in the Department and when it
appears that they can neither be delivered 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 sec
ton of act approved February twenty-seventh,
eighteen hundred and sixty -one, entitled " An
act to establish certain post routes fl" and
the amount thereof shall be shown in the an
nual report, and shall be subject to reclama-
tion by either the party addressed or by the
sender for four years from 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 il appears cannot be returned to either
destination, shall be disposed of as the Post
master General shall direct.
Sec. ii. And be IL further enacted That let
ter-carriers shall be employed, at such post
office as the Postmaster General shall direct,
for the delivery Of letters. in the places re-
spectively, where such postoifices are establish
cd and for their services they shall seyerally
receive a salary, to be prescribed by the Post
master General, not exceeding eight hundred
dollars per year PraSded, That on satsfac-
tory evidence Of their diligence, fidelity, and
experience as carriers, the Postmaster General
may Increase their respective salaries from
time to time to any sum not exceeding one
thousand dollars and each Of the said carriers
shall give bond, with surcties, to he approved
Icy the Postmaster General, for the safe custo-
dy and delivery of all letters, packets, and
moneys received by him.
Sec. 10. Aad be II further enacted That all ex-
penses for the letter-carriers, branch offices,
and receiving boxes, or incident thereto, shall
he entered and reported in separate account
from the ordinary postal expenses of such
postofice, and shall be shown i'm comparison
with the proceeds of the hostages on local mail
matter ut each Office, in order that the Post
master General may be guided in the expendi-
lures for that branch of the postal service by
income derived therefrom
See. Is. And be IL Jnth.r enacted, That the
eighth, eleventh. fourteenth, seventeenth, and
eighteenth sections of the act entitled % An
act to amend the laws relating to the Post
Office Department" approved March three,
eighteen hundred and sixty-three, the provis-
Ions of which have been modified and incor-
porated in this act, be, and the same are here
by repealed.
Sec. II. And be IL further enacted, That the
special agent of the Postoflice Department in
the Pacific States and Territories shall receive
rs compensation five dollars per diem.
Approved, July /, 1864.