Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-02-14
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CONTINUED
Sec 122, That any postmaster, assistant, clerk
or other person employed in or connected with
the business or operations of any money order
Office who shall convert to his own use, in any
| way whatever, or loan, or deposit in any bank,
or exchange for other funds, any portion of the
money order funds, shall be deemed guilty of
enlbezzlement; and any such person. as we'll
as every other person advising or participating
therein, shall. on conviction thereof, for every
such offense, be imprisoned for not less than six
months nor more than ten years. and be fined
in sum equal to the amount embezzled and
any failure to pay over or produce any money
order funds intrusted to such person shall be
taken to be prima facie evidence of embezzle-
ment; and upon the trial of any indictment
against any person for embezzlement, it shall
be prima facie evidence of balance against
him to produce transcript from the money Or
der account books of the Auditor for the Post.
Office Department.. But nothing herein con.
tanned shall be construed to prohibit any post
master depositiDg, under the direction of the
Postmaster General, in national bank desig-
mated by the Secretary of the Treasury for that
purpose, to his own credit as postmaster, any
money order or other funds in his charge, nor
prevent his negotiating drafts or other evil
dences of debt through such bank, or through
United States disbursing officers, or otherwise,
when instructed or required to do so by the
Postmaster General, for the purpose of remit
ting surplus money order funds from one post
office to another, to be used in payment of mon
ey orders. That disbursing officers of the
United States shall be required to issue, under
regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary
of the Treasury duplicates oflost checks drawn
of money order or other public funds received
by them from some other postmaster.
Sec 123 That poStmasterS at money order
offices may be allowed, as compensation for is
suing and paying money orders, not exceeding
one third Of the whole amount of fees collect
nd iScuoH ep6 0OQ-f0nrfh of
centum on the gross amount of orders paid at
their respective Offices, provided such compen.
sation, together with the postmasters salary,
shall not exceed four thousand dollars per an
New York city, as hereinbefore provided.
Sec. 1914 That the Postmaster General may
pay out of the proceeds of tho money order
business the cost of stationery and such Incl
dental expenses as are necessary for the trans
action of that business.
Sec. 49, That the Postmaster General NAV
employ such an additional number of clerks
at money order Offices as may be necessary for
conducting the operations of the money order
system, who shall be paid out Of the proceeds
of the money order business.
Sec 126. That for the greater security of val
liable mail -matter, the Postmaster General may
establish q uniform system of registration.
Sec. III That mail matter shall be register
ed only on the application of the party posting
the same, and the fee therefor shall not exceed
twenty cents in addition to the regular postage,
to be, in all cases, prepaid and all such fees
shall be accounted for in such manner as the
Postmaster General may direct; Provided,
That letters upon the official business of the
ing shall be registered free of charge, and pass
through the mails free of charge.
Sec 128. That receipt shall be taken upon
the delivery of any registered mail matter,
showing to whom and when the same was delv-
cred, which shall be returned to the sender,
opd no rocpVpA in the a : fo cy-.
idence of such delivery.
Sec. 129. That the Post-Ofice Department,
or its revenue shall not be liable for the loss of
any registered Matchmaker. ei.rf
Sec. 1S0 That mailable matter shall BIO di-
vided into three classes: first, letters; second,
regular printed matter; third, miscellaneous
matter. $40 -r --.r -.-'
Sec. ISL. That mailable matter of tho first
class shall embrace all correspondence, wholly
or partly in writing, except book-manuscrips
and corrected proof Sheets passing between au-
| thors and publishers.
Sec. 1872 That mailable matter of the second
class shall embrace all matter exclusively in
print, and regularly issued at stated periods
| from known Office of publication, without ad-
dition by writing, mark, or sign: r Ga.I
Sec. 1873. That mailable matter of the third
class shall embrace all pamphlets, occasional
publications, transient newspapers, magazines,
hand bills. posters, unscaled circulars, pros
| pectuses, books, book manuscripts, proof sheets,
corrected proof sheets, maps, prints, engrav-
| ings, blanks, flexible patterns, samples Of mer-
| chandise not exceeding twelve ounces in weight,
| sample cards, photographic paper, letter onvel-
opes, postal envelopes and wrappers, cards,
plain and ornamental paper, Photographic rep
resentatives Of different types, seeds, cuttings,
bulbs, roots, scions. and all other matter which
may be declared mailable by law. and all 9th
er articles not above the weight prescribed by
law, which are not, from their nature,
liable to destroy, defaoe, or other other
wise injure the contents of the mail bag or the
person of any one engaged in the postal service.
All liquids, poisons, glass, explosive materials,