Daily Mississippi clarion and standard. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-07-06
IHE DAILY CLARION and STANDARD
LAWS or THE UNITED STATES,
Passed at the first session of the
Thirty ninth Congress.
toFFIcIAL.1
GPUBLIc-No. 671
Az Act to amend the postal laws


Bet enacted By The Senate aud House of Rcp
rsRtatlres Of tAe Cnited States Of Ap,erioa in
Goneress assembled, That, from and affar tha
arst day of July, eighteen hundred and
,ixtysix, prepaid and free letters shall he
forwarded at the request of the party adj
dressed, from one post Office to another with
out additional postal charge and returned
dead letters shall be restored to the writer's
thereof free Of postage.
SEC > Ind be u further enacted. That the
tenth section of the act entitled ''An act To
establish salaries for postmasters. and for
other purposes, approved July one, eighteen
hundred and sixty-fOur; and so much of the
twenty y-oighth section of an act entitled "An.
oct TO amend the laws relating to the Post
OMce Department" approved March three
Eighteen hundred and sixty-three. as reouires
postage to be charged at the prepaid rate. to
BE- collected on the return delivery of letters
Endorsed with a request for their return to the
writers be- and the same are hereby re-
healed aud all letters bearing such indorse
Aneut shall hereafter be returned to the wr;-
ttrs thereof without additional postal charge
SIC g. Ind be il further enacted That the
bird section of the act entitled "An act
10 establish postal mOney-order system"
approved May seventeen, eighteen hundred
Ind sixty-fOur, be, and the same is herebv
noley-Order for any sum not to exceed fftv
Dollars, and that the charge or fee for an or
Der for a sum not exceeding twenty dollars
khall be ten cents: far an order cxooc,iiusy
twenty dollars shall be twenty-five cents.
SEC g. ind be II further enacted. That n
honey-order shall be valid and payable when
bresented to the deputy postmaster on whom
4 is drawn within one year after its date
but for no longer period; and in case of the
bss Of money-order a duplicate thereof
hall be issued without charge on the appli-
kation Cf the remitter or payee. who shall
bake the required proofs; and postmasters
n all mOney-order offices are hereby autbor-
kel and required to administer to the appli.
E1t or applicants in such cases the required |
latl or affirmation free of charge
SEC. o. ind be It further enacted, That all |
hlroad companies carrying the mails of the |
Emitted States shall convey without extra |
harge, by any train which they may run :.
per their roads, all such printed matter as
b. Postmaster General shall, from time to
fme, direct TO be transported thereon with
fe persons in charge of the mails designated
N the Post Office Department for that pur-
b.
SEC o. Ind be it further enacted, That if
hy person-or persons shall wilfully and ma
IcOusly injure, detace, or destroy any mail
y t.e matter deposited in any letter-bOx, pill
brbOx, or other receiving boxes established
II authority of the Postmaster General of |
be United States for the.safe deposit of mat
d for the mails or for delivery, or shall
4lltully aid and assist in iniuring such mail
4 ble matter so deposited as aforesaid, every
lch offender being duly convicted thereof
Dali, for every such offence be fined not
pre- than five hundred dollars, or be impris-
g led not more than three years, at the dis
NttOu Of the court.
SEC :. and be it further enacted, That
Hbeneyer it shall become expedient. in the
TuiOn of the Postmaster General to substi-
te different kind of postage stamps for
4ose now IN use, he shall be, and is hereby
fhorlzed to modify the existing contract
the manufacture of postage stamps so as
4allow to the contractors sum sufficient
aCoyer the increased expenses, if any, of
Nenutacturing the stamps so substituted.
eEc. :. Ind be it further enacted, That sec
~ two of the act entitled "An act to estab-
salaries for postmasters, and for other
OPPOSES, approved July one, eighteen hun
~ and siNty-four, be amended by adding
~ following PrOrided, That when the quar-
~ returns of any postmaster of the third,
nrth or fifth class show that the salary al
= ed IS ten per ceutum less than it would
On the basis of commissions under the act |
Negbteen hundred and fifty-four, fixing
npeusatlou, then the Postmaster General |
III review and readiust under the provis-
b Of said section
bHC 9. 1ad be Il further enacted. That
eneyer the Postmaster General shall re-
Pre- special agents of the Post Office De-
ftmeut to collect or disburse the public
Pneys accruing from pOstages, such special
PM or agents. when so employed, shall |
pOr to entering upon such duty, give bond
fuch sum, in such form, and with such Sc
pity as the Postmaster General NAV ap-
.bye
approved June r. 1866