The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-03-29
The New Postal BiII as Passed BY Coz.
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| The following are the provisions of
the new Postal Bill.
Section one enacts that from and af-
ter the Ist day of April, 1866, prepaid
letters shall be forwarded at the request
of the party addressed from one post
office to another without additional
postage charge, and returned dead let
ters shall be restored to the writers free
of postage. ar 49,
Section second provides that the 10th
section of the act entitled nn act to es-
tablish salaries for postmasters and for
other purposes, approved July l, 1851,
and SO much of the twenty-elghth sec
ton of the act entitled an act 10 amend
the laws relating to the Post-Offce De-
partment, approved March 8, 1868, as
requires postage to be charged ut the
prepaid rate, to be collected on the re-
turn delivery of letters Endorsed with a
request for their return to the writers,
be and the same are hereby repealed
and all letters bearing such indorSe-
ment shall hereafter be returned to the
writer's without additional postage
charge.
Section 8. That the third section of
the act entitled an act to establish a
Postal Order Money System, approved
May IL, 1854, be and the same is hereby
amended so as to authorize the issuing
of money orders for any sum not to
exceed fifty dollars; and that the charge
or fee for an order not exceeding twen-
ty dollars shall be ten cents, and for an
order exceeding twenty dollars, twenty
| i've cents.
be valid, and payable when presented
to the deputy postmaster, on whom 1t
| is drawn, within one year of its date,
but no longer period; and on the loss
| of u money order, duplicate thereof
shall be issued without charge or du-
l II; Of I,n NFfln ftV-
mitter shall give proofs. Postmasters
at all money order offices are hereby
authorized and required to administer
to the applicant or applicants in such
cases the required oath or affirmation,
| free of charge.
nies carrying the mails of the United
States shall convey, without extra
charge, by any train which they may
run over their roads, all such printed
matter as the Postmaster General shall,
from time TO time, direct to be trans
mitted thereon, with the persons in
charge of the mails, designated by the
Postoffice Department for that purpose.
Section 6. That If any person shall
willfully and maliciously injure, deface
or destroy any mailable matter deposit
ed in Ietter-box or other receiving
Postmaster General of the United
States, for the safe deposit of matter
for the mails or for delivery, or shall
willfulRy aid or assist in injurtng such
maiIable matter so deposited as afore-
said, either by pouring into such boxes
oil, water, or other fluids, or by any
other means, every such offender, be-
ing thereof duly convicted, shall, for
every such offense, be fined not less
than 500 nor more than $1,000, or be
imprisoned not less than one year nor
more than three years, at the discretion
of the court. tEt
Section Z. Tint wheneverit shall be-
come expedient, in the opinion of the
Postmaster General, to establish n diff
ferent kind of postage stamps for those
now in use, he shall be and is hereby
authorized to modify the existing con-
tract for the manufacture of postage
stamps, so as to allow the contractors n
sum sufficient to cover the increased
| expense, If any, of manufacturing the
stamps SO substituted.
Section s. Tint section 5, chapter 1877
of the act approved July 1, 1854, be
amended by adding the following: Pro-
Yided that when the quarterly returns
of any postmaster of the third, fourth
or q ifth class, shows that the salary III
lowed is ten per cent less than it would
be on the basis of commission, under
the act of 1854, fixing compression, th9n
the Postmaster General shall review
and readjust under the provisions,
of said sections eE