The Evansville journal., 1868-08-31
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed at the Second Session of The
F0rtieth Congress.
IPuRLIC-NO. 9S.l
An Act to further amend the Posta


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An Act to further amend the Postal
Laws
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House o. Representative of the
Uuired States OF America IN Congress
ssembied, That when any writer of
letter, on which the postage Is pre-
paid, shall endorse in writing or in
print upon the outside thereof his
name aud address. the same, after re
naming uncldLled uncalledl for at
the post office to which it is directed
thirty days, or the time the writer
NAV direct, shall be returned to the
said writer without additional post
age, whether a specific request for
such return be endorsed on the letter
or not.
SEC. 2 And be it further enacted,
That all persons who receive money
orders shall be required to pay there
| for the following charges or fees, viz:
| For one dollar or any sum not eX-
ceeding twenty dollars, a fee of ten
cents shall be charged and exacted by
the postmaster giving said order; for
all orders exceeding twenty dollars
| and not exceeding thirty dollars, the
charge shall be fifteen cents; for all
orders exceeding thirty dollars and
not exceeding forty dollars, the fee
shall be twenty cents; for all orders
| exceeding forty dollars and not exceed
ing fifty dollars, the fee shall be twenty
five cents; aud furthermore that
the compensation Of deputy postmas-
ters for the payment of money orders
is hereby increased from One-eighth
! to one-fOurth of enc per centum on
the gross amount of orders paid at
their respective offices, and that
| nothing con aimed In any act shall be
so construed as to deprive pOstmasters
at money order offices of the compen
sation for trans acting the money order
business fixed by the act of May sew
enteenth, eiehteen hundred and sixty
four, and modified as stated 10 this
section: Provided always, That the
amount OF such annual compensation,
together with the postmaster's salary
shall not in any case exceed the sala-
ry esta blished By law tor postmg sters
of the first class.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted
That section thirty-fve of act Oi
| March third, eighteen hundred aud
sixty-three, shall be so construed as
to permit weekly newspapers, proper
ly folded and addressed, when sent to
regular subscri bers, in the county
where printed aud published, to be
delivered free of postage, when de.
posted at the Office nearest to the
Office of publication; but nothing IL
this act shall be so construed as tC
require the carriers to distribute said
papers, unless postage Is paid upor
them at the rate of five cents pei
quarter, and such postage must bt
prepaid for term of not less thai
> on quarter or more than one year
either at the Office of mailing or oi
delivery, at the option of the sub
seriber
SEC 3. And be it further enacted
; That 10 case o the loss of a money
order, a duphcate thereof shall be IS.
sued by the superintendent of the
money order Office without charge, on
the application Of the renitter oi
payee OF he original. Provided. That
the applicant furnish a certificate
from the postmaster on whom the
same was drawn that it had not bper
+ and would not thereafter be pa;d and ]
) similar certificate from the postmasta,
1 be paid, and a similar certificatr
from the postmaster by whom it wa;