The Evansville journal., 1868-08-31

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/ ton for payment within one year aite
/ It's date, or because of illegu endorse
ments.
SEC. 5. And be it further enacted
That if any person shall falsely forg
or counterfeit, or willingly aid, assist
or abet in falsely forging or counter
feiting, or shall procure, directly Of
indirectly. to be falsely forged o.
counterfeited, any postal money order
or any material signature or endorse
ment TO any postal money order issued
by he Post Office Department, or any
Of rs agents, for the purpose and witt
the intent of obtaining or receiving
Directly or indirectly, or Of pro
curing or enabling others to obtair
or receive, directly or indirectly, any
sum or sums of money, and thereby
to defraud either the United States OF
any person OF such sum or sums o.
money, or any part thereof, or shall
pass, utter, or publish, or attempt tc
pass, utter. or publish as true, any
such forged or counterfeited postal
money order with intent to defraud
either the United States or any per-
SOP of any sum or sums of money
Knowing such postal money order, OF
any sigma ture or endorsement thereon.
to be so falsely forged or counterfeit
ed. every such person shall be deemed
guilty Of felony, and being thereof
duly convicted. shall be sentenced to
be imprisoned and kept at hard LABOR
for a period of not less than two years
nor more than five years, and to be
fined In q sum not exceeding hve
thousand dollars.
SEC. 6. And be it further en-
acted, That the Postmaster Cen
eral be-. aud he is hereby, author
lied to appoint and employ on board
of each of the mail steamers plying
on the route between San Francis
co, Japan and China, and between
San Francisco and Honolulu, Haw-
aiian Islands, a government agent IN
charge of the United States mails, at
an annual salary Of two thousand dol
lars each per annum.
SEC. z. And be it further enacted,
That the Postmaster General be, aud
he IS hereby, authorized to establish
in connection with the United States
mail steamship service to Japan and
China, a general postal agency at
Shanghai, China, with such branch
agencies at other ports 10 China
and Japan as shall. in his iudg-
ment, be necessary for the prompt
and efficient management Of the
postal service In those countries; and
to pay the postal agents 50 appointed
aud employed a reasonable compen-
sation for their services, in addition
to the necessary expenses for rent,
furniture, clerk hire, and so forth, to
be allowed at each agency for con-
Quoting the postal business, a report
on which shall be embraced in the
annual report Of the Postmaster Cen
eral.
SEC. s. And be it further enacted,
That for the more efficient manage
meat of the increased postal business
connected with the foreign mail SER
vice, the Postmaster General be, and
he is hereby, authorized to ap-
point in his department super
intendent of foreign mails at
an annual salary of three thousand
dollars. and also three additional
clerks for that branch Of the postal
service, to wit: one Of class four, and
two of class three; and that the salary
of the superintendent of the money
order system shall be three thousand
dollars per annum.
SEC. 9. And be it further enacted,
That the Postmaster General be. and
he is hereby, authorized to appoint IN
the Office of the Third Assistant Post
master General, a chief Of division
for the dead letter Office at q salary OF
two thousand five hundred dollars
per annum.
SEC. 10. And be it further enacted,
That, if any person employed in
any department of the post Office
establishment of the United States
shall, wilfully and knowingly, use or
cause TO be used In prepayment of
postage any postage stamp or stamped
envelope issued or which may here
after be issued by authority Of any
act Of Congress or OF the Postmaster
General which has already been once
used for like purpose, or shall re-
move or attempt to remove the can
ceiling or. defacing marks from any
such postage stamp or stamped envel-
ope with intent to use or cause the
use of the same a second time, or to
sell or offer to sell the same, or shall
remove from letters or other mail
matter deposited in or received at
a poStOthce the stamps attached to the
same in payment of postage, with in
tent to use the 3ame a second time
for like purpose, or to sell or offer to
sell the same, every such offender shall,
upon conviction thereof, be deemed
guilty of felony, and shall be impris-
oned for not less than one year nor
more than three wears
SEC. II. And be it further enacted,
That If any person not employed in
any depa tment Of the post Office
establishment of the United States
shall commit any of the offences
described IN the preceding section of
this act, every such person shall, on
conviction thereof, be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and be punished
by Imprisonment for not less than
six months nor more than one year.
or by a fine of not less than one hun
dred dollars nor more than FIVE hun
dred dollars for each offence, or by
both such fine and pris0nment.
SEC. u. And be it further enacted, /,
That section nine OF an act OF Con-
gress, approved July one, eighteen
| hundred and sjxty-four, authorizing
the sales of postage stamps and
stamped eugelops at discount, be SO
modified that the quantities of
1 each sold at any one time to the same
party shall not exceed one hundred
dollars in value; and that such sales
shall be restricted to certain desig1a-
ted agents who will agree to sell again
without discount, under rules to be
fixed by the Postmaster General.
Sec. 13. And be it further enacted
/ That it shall not be lawful to deposit
in a post office, to be sent by mail,
| any letters or circulars concerning
lotteries, so called gift concerts, or
other similar enterprises Offering
prizes of any kind on any pretext