Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-02-09

service shall be kept In such manner as
to exhibit the amount of revenue derived
respectively from letter postage; book,
newspaper, and pamphlet postage; regis
tered letters box rents and branch offices;
postage stamps and envelopes; dead let
tiers; fines and penalties; revenue from
money order business; and miscellaneous;
and the amount of expenditures for each
of the following objects, namely: Trans
portation of the mail; compensation of
postnasters; compensation of letter car
riers compensation of clerks for post
offices; compensation of blank-agents
and assistants; mail depredations and
special agents; postage stamps and envel-
oped; ship, steamboat, and way letters;
dead letters mail-bags; mail-locks and
keys; and postmarking and canceling
stamps; wrapping paper Irvine; letter.
balances; office furniture; advertising;
balances to foreign countries rent, light
and fuel for post offices; and stationery,
and miscellaneous.
Sec. 40 That unclaimed money in dead
letters for which no owner can be found;
all money taken from the mail by rob-
berry, theft, or otherwise, which may come
into the hands of any agent or employee
of the United States, or any other person
whatever; all fines and penalties impos-
ed for any violation of the postal laws, eX-
cept such part as may by law belong to
the infOrmer or party prosecuting for the
same; and all money derived from the
sale of waste paper or other public proper
ty of the Post-Office Department, shall be
deposited in the treasury, under the direc-
ton of the Postmaster General, as part of
the postal revenue. And the Postmaster
General is hereby directed to cause to be
placed to the credit of the Treasury of the
United States for the Post-Office Depart
ment, the net proceeds of the money or
der business ; and the receips of the Post Of
flee Department derived from this source
during each quarter, shall be entered by
the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post
Office Department, in the amount, in the
head of revenue from mOney-Order bus
iness."
Sec. 43. That all hostages, bOxrents, and
other receipts at pOst-offices shall be &C
counted for as part CT the postal revenues;
and any part thereof which the postmas-
ter has neglected to collect, he shall be
charged with and held accountable for the
same as if he had collected it.
Sec. A. That postmasters may allow
bOX-hOlders who desire to do so to provide
lock-boXes or drawers lor their own use, at
their own expense, which lOck-boXes or
drawers, upon their erection in any post
office, shall become the property of the
United States, and be subject to the direc-
ton and control of the Post Office Depart
ment, and shall pay rental at least equal
to that of other boxes in the same office,
or, if there be no other boxes in such Of
flee, of boxes in other offices of the same
class, which rental shall be accounted for
as other boX-rents.
Sec. 40. That any officer, agent, post
master, clerk, or other person employed in
any branch of the postal service having
temporary custody of any money taken
from dead-letters; any money derived
from the sale of waste paper or other pub
lie property of the Post-Office Depart
ment; or any money derived from any
other source which by law is part of the
postal revenues, who shall wilfully neg
lect to deposit the same in the treasury of
the United States, or in some other depos-
itory authorized to receive the same, shall
be deemed guilty of ENLIGHTENMENT, and be
subject to fine not exceeding double the
sum so retained, or to imprisonment not
exceeding three years, or both, at the dis
cretion of the court. And any person in
trusted by law with the sale of postage
stamps or stamped envelopes, who shall
refuse or neglect to account for the same,
OF who shall pledge or hypOthecate or I'M
lawfully dispose of them, for any purpose
whatever, shall be deemed guilty of en-
bezzlement, and shall be subject to the
same penalty and punishment as are pro-
vided in this section for the ENLIGHTENMENT
of money.
Sec. As. That the money required for the
postal service in each year shall be appro-
priated by law out of the revenues of the
service.
Sec. AZ. That payments of money out of
the treasury on account of the postal SER
vice shall be in pursuance of appropria.
tons made by law, by warrants of the
Postmaster General, registered and coun.
tersigned by the Auditor for the Post Of
flee Department, and expressing on their
should be charged.