Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-06-10
IMPORTANT POST OFFICE REGULA-
TONS.

TONS.
We have been furnished by authority, and
requested to publish the following order
from the Postofiice Department, dated June
9th, 1866, and over the signature of GEO.
WV. MCCLELLAN, Second Assistant Post
master General:
]. The mails Of the United States must not be
delivered at any pOstoffice or any other place
where there Is not a regularly appointed post,
master dciy commissioned, other authorized
agent, duly appointed and sworn. according TO
law to receive them.
p Persons not duly sworn anG commissioned
as postInasters must not cancel stamps, register
letters, receive money In payment of postage or
letters not stamped, or mark letters as paid: !"
Such persons must not sign as postmGsters, certh-
Gates OF other communications addressed to or in
tended for use in, the POstoffce Department.
g. Route agents and postmaster must return
or refuse all letters marked paid by persons not
duly sworn and commissioned as postmaster
We are also requested to state that aPph-
cations for the position of postmaster in this
Postoffice district, may be directed to the
Postmaster General, WIN. DENNIsoS, Wash
ington City, to A.V S. Lindsey, Postmaster
at Nashville, or TO the Editors of this paper
to be delivered to the Special Agent for this
district. or either of the first named officers.
We herewith append the oath and certii-
cate required to be made before entering
upon the duties Of postmaster
cERTIy1cArE OF THE olTH OF MAIL CONTRACTORS.
cARRIE2s, &C, REQUIRED BY LAW.
being employed in the care,
custody. and conveyance Of the mail, on route
No - from o., State Of
w. -, HV do swear that / will faithfully per
form all the duties required of me, and abstain
from everything forbidden by the laws III relation
10 the establishment of postoihces and post roads
within the United States; and that will honestly
and truly account for and pay over any moneys
belonging TO the said United States which may
came into INV possession and control; and i fur
Their solemnly swear that / have never volunta-
rily borne arms against the United States since l
have been citizen thereof; that have veluntaH-
ly given no aid, countenanee counsel or encourage
ment TO persons engaged IN armed hosLiity
thereto; that have neither fought, nor accept
ed, nor attempted 70 exercise the functions OF
any Office whatever under authority. or pretend
ed authority, in hostility 10 the United States;
that have not yielded q voluntary support TO any
pretended government, authority, power, or con
stitutiOn within the United States, hostile or IN
imical thereto And | do further swear that. to
the best of my knowledge and ability, lwill sup
port and defend the Constitution of the United
States against all enemies, foreign or domestic;
that will bear true faith and allegiance TO the
same; that L take this obligation freely, without
any mental reservation or purpose OF evasion
and that will well and faithfully discharge the
duties of the Office on which am about to enter
SO help me God.
Sworn before the subscriber, for the
Of, this--day Of, A. d. lS6-; and
| also certify that the person above named is
above the age Of sixteen years, to the best OF my
knowledge and belief
The person who takes the oath should sign his
name above the magistrates certificate This
certificate must have affixed a fve-cent revenue
stamp which should be cancelled by the person
using it; writing on i his initials and the date
per act of Congress of July |. 1867
One oath TO be signed by contractor, and one
by each carrier employed.
We confess that we were somewhat sur
prised to learn that SO much postal irrespon-
sibility and irregularity had been permitted
to exist in the region tributary to Nashville.
A majority of the Offices on the postal routes
established before the war have not, nor have
had, for several years, authorized officers.
The receipt and and delivery Of mails has
been a matter of accommodation on the part
of whomsoever might from, day to day, I'M
dertake it, and if at any point, any one
did it regularly, the action was without au-
thority.
The order is intended to put stop to all
irregular proceedings, and it is proper
enough but when are we to have regular
mails under the care of authorized Off
GERS? Certainly the Government does not
intend 10 deprive this community Of safe,
regular and prompt postal privileges. The
fact first brought to light under this official
order, explains the trouble and annoyance
which has been felt in regard to mailed mat
ter, and it is the duty of the Government to
remedy it at once, and the way to do it is
to appoint postmasters and route agents, and
qualify them so as to make them responsible
to the law.
We take the liberty of saying, however,
that the oath above published is an unneces-
sary requisite, and if the Department de-
cides to adhere to it, it will be difficult to
organize the postal arrangements of this re-
gion as they should be. There is not a
neighborhood from this point to the Next
can Gulf in which this regulation will not
exclude from the privilege of the postmaster
ship many good men, and make it difficult
to find competent persons who can assume
the responsibility of filling the vacancies
which the order of June 9th declares.
We speak of this business in no partizan
spirit. The post offices of the country should
be re-established Immediately and legally.
1t is a daily necessity of the people which
Joas not admit IF delav for any c,use