Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-14
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POSTAL REGULATIONS.
Something about Stamps and MutIIa-
ted Currency.

The following is an extract from an order
recently issued by W. II. II. Terrell, Third
Assistant Postmaster General, in regard to
mutilated currency:
Postmasters are not required by law to
redeem, or accept in payment of postoffie
dues, money orders, stamps, or stamped en-
velopes, any currency which may be so mu-
tilated as to be uncurTent, nor is it any
part ftheir duty to receive and transmit to
the Treasury for redemption, mutilated cur
reDcy belonging to individuals, except as
regular mail matter, forwarded in the usual
manner at the risk Of the owner. Such
packages if addressed to the Treasurer of
the United States, Washington, D. c." will
be sent free of postage, but if the same be
registered, the registry fee must in all cases
| be prepaid by stamps. The necessities of
the postal service are such that all funds
received by postmasters must be kept in
current and passable money so as to be i'm
mediately available for paying the drafts of
| the department, money orders, and expen-
ses of the service.
The following decisions have recently
been made by the Treasury and Postofice
Departments.
Any package sealed against inspection is
cbargeable with letter postage.
Miscellaneous matter contained in sealed
and notched envelopes is subjected to letter
postage. To be subject only to printed mat
ter rates, the envelope must be left I'M
sealed.
Any book packet which is not open at the
sides or ends, or has any letter, or commu-
nication in the nature of letter, written in
it, or upon its cover, cannot be received or
forwarded in the mail, and it is the duty of
postmasters, whenever they have ground
for suspecting an Infringement of any of
the above conditions, to open and examine
book, packets, patterns, samples or other
postal packets posted at or passing through
their offices.
1t is protection against loss to register
letters containing money, but the registry
fee must in all cases be prepaid by the party
RENTING.
All regulations heretofore in force, sub
jecting mutilated currency of the United
States to discount or redemption thereof,
are hereby abrogated; but no claim for re-
funding discount heretofore withheld will
be entertained.
Defaced and mutilated fractional and legal
tender notes, each equaling or exceeding by
face measurement three-ffths of its origi-
nal proportions in one piece, will, if in such
condition that their genuineness can be
clearly ascert aimed, be redeemed at the full
face value of whole notes, in new notes or
currency, by the Treasurer, the several As
sistant Treasurers and designated deposita-
ries of the United States, and all national
banks designated as depositaries, and will
also be received at their full face value by
officers Of the Treasury Department in pay
ment of all currency dues to the United !
States.
The officers of the national bank deposit
taries, by whom such currency shall be re-
deemed or received, will not use it in their
disbursements, but may forward it to the
Treasurer of the United States at Washing
ton, at the expense of the department I'M
der the contract with Adams Express Com |
panY.