New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-01


upon any mail matter collected or dpliv
cred by carriers.
SEC I0I. That all expenses of letter car
riers, branch Offices and receiving boxes. or
incident thereto, shall be kept and reported
in separate account, and shall be shown
in comparison with the proceeds from post
age on local mail matter at each Office, and
the Postmaster General shall be guided in
the expenditures for this branch of the SER
vice by the income derived therefrom.
SEC. l02. That to promote public CON
/ venience, and to insure greater security in
the transfer OF money through the mail, the
postmaster General may establish, under
such rules and regulations as he may deem
| eXpeQlent, Uniform money order system,
/ az all suitaole pNStoffies, which shall be
! designated as 'money-srder Offices"
Sec. 1O3. That the Postmaster General
may conclude arrangements With the most
| departments of foreign goyernm,nts wifi
! which postal conventions have been or .asv
| be concluded for the exchange, by means
| of postal orders, of small sums of money,
not exceeding fifty dollars in amount, at
such rates of exchange, and compensation
! to pOstmasters, and under such rules aud
regulations as he may deem expedient; and
| the expenses of establishing and conduct
ing such system of exchange may be paid
| out of the proceeds of the mOney-order
! business.
SEC. lO4 That the postmaster at a
money-order office shall issue, in such man
ner and form as the Postmaster General
may prescribe, an order for a specified sum
| of money, payable by the postmaster at any
! other money-order Office which the person
| apply wing therefor may select but no money
| order shall be delivered until the amonnt
| thereof, and the proper fee therefor have
| been deposited with the postmaster issuing
it;provided, that the postmaster ofeverycitT
| where branch pOstotfices or stations are es-
| tablished and in operation, subject to his
/ ySiIl =, j
the direction OF the Postmaster General, to -,
| issue, or to cause to be issued, BY any of his
assistants or clerks in charge of branch
! post offices or stations postal money orders
| payable at his own or at any other money
| order office, or at any branch post office or
! station of his own, or any other money
order office, as the remitters thereof may
| direct; and that the postmaster and his
| sureties shall in every case be held account
able upon his official bond for all moneys
received by him or his designated assist
ants or clerks in charge of stations from
the issue of money orders under the pro,
visions of this act, and for all moneys
which may come into his or their hands,
or be placed in his or their custody
by reason of the transaction by them Of
money-order business. And all the provi-
sions OF law now in force respecting the is
sue and payment of mOney-orders, and the
disposal of mOney-Order funds in the Gus
tody of postmasters, shall apply to all
mOney-Orders issued under the authority
given by this act, and to all moneys re-
ceived from the issue thereof.
oEC' NO. AhaI an postmaster VINO snail
issue money o[aet "l[AouC having pre-
viously received the money therefor shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and,
on conviction thereof, shall be fined not
less than fifty nor more than five hundred
dollars.
SEC. 1906 That in ease of the sickness or I'm.
avoidable absence from his office of the
postmaster of any money-order post0fffce,
he nt.tSEJT- with the approval of the Postmas-
ter General, authorize the chlet clerk or
some other ci'eEk en5ployed therein to act
IN his place, ana on tlo outleS
required by law OF stsSn pro
Vlded, That the Official bOnTnLG beii ~ ny Tue
principal OF the office shall beTs narso, oovef
and apply to the acts Of theS s59SS.t oa up,
pointed to act III his place in sucffSs-e 49,;
ana provided further, that such acting officer
snail Tor the time being. be subject to all the
!!aoIilIe5 ana penaltles prescribed by law
1or the Official misconduct in like cases Of
Vhe postmaster tor Whom he shall act
oEC; fUI, IhaV no money order shall be
issueo loT more IMAM nIty dollars, and che
ices thefeIof snaIi De, Tor oorders not exc
t ee'3 Ten aoIlars; I'VE cents; exceeding
o oon "na noo eAceeuIn2 twenty dollars, ter
tfit, oNoTo'.Ins oMeItJ duu NOT exceeding
10y uoii"[S, HIteeh cents; exceeding
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