Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-03-06
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learn how these stamps and stamped envelopes,
supplied in such large numbers, are disposed of
! By them.
The Secretary of the Treasury, IN his circular
TO officers and clerks OF the Treasury Department
and others, instrucJs them that
These stamps are to be used on all official cor
respondence Of whatever nature, and other OIL
ciIl mail matter, whether addressed 10 officers
lately entitled to the franking privilege 20 other
officers of the Government who had not the pri-
vilege, or to private persons on official business;
thus entirely doing away with the use of the or
binary postage stamp for official purposes.
And then he informs that his Department
furnishes such stamps to the following: 42 eti-
GERS of the Department in Washington. 10 assist
ant treasurers, 3 designated repositories. mint
and assay officers, II lighthouse inspectors and
engineers. 40 supervising and local inspectors Of
steam vessels, AZ revenue marine and life-saying
service. IL surgeons in charge of marine hospit-
ais, 80 superinten dents construction and repairs
of public buildings, % specia! agents, commits
sioner of fish and fisheries, III customs officers,
225 collectors of internal revenue, 20 revenue
agents, 10 supervisors of internal revenue; u
total of 67S officers receiving them directly from
the Department; but of the number of clerks
and assistants of these officers to whom they are
thus intrusted we are not advised.
The State Department furnishes them to the
Secretary of State, the Assistant Secretary of
State, the Second Assistant Secretary, the chief
clerk of the Department, the examiner Of claims,
the dispatch agent at New York, and the dispatch
agent at Boston.
The Attorney-General reports that the Depart
ment of Justice
Has furnished official postage-stamps to 81
United State district attorneys, So United States
marshals, and 62 courts Of the United States,
making in all 172 persons who have been suppli-
ed with these stamps for the purpose OF paying
postage on official correspondence. Stamps are
also used upon the official correspondence OF this
0.Iio io;f of fha
sury. In few instances where letters have been
written TO persons not officers or employees OF
the Department, asking for information, ,pastage-
stamps have been inclosed TO pay the return post
age. This, however, has only been done in that
branch of the Department relating To the Court
of Claims, where the return papers were volu-
minous,
He also states that
About oue-half the time of a trst-class clerk
is employed in keeping an account of the posi-
age stamps, and transmitting to the officers en-
titled to them, and considerable portion of tho
time of one messenger is now occupied in deliver
ing mail matter in the city
The Navy Department furnishes the N
to the eight Bureaus of the Navy Depart
ment, including the Naval Observatory,
Hydropraphic Office, Nautical Almanac
Office, Signal Office, naval hospitals; the
commandants of the several Davy-yards,
and the rendezvous, receiving ships, and
offices connected Herewith the SupeIintsn-
dent of the Naval Academy; the Ad-
miral of the Navy the governor of
the Naval Asylum the purchasing
paymasters at Portsmouth, New Hamp
shire, Boston, New York, Philadel-
phia. Baltimore, Washington, Norfolk,
and San Francisco naval stations at
League Island, New London, Mound City,
and New Orleans naval examining and
retiring board and such of the vessels of
the United States Navy as may be in our
ports.
In the War Department the stamps are
furnished to the Adjutant- General, the
chief clerk of the office, and, in his absence,
another clerk, designated by the Adjutant-
General, and a clerk who affixes the stamps
to the letters and packages to be mailed
Inspector-General r. b. Marcy; Inspec-
tor-General E. SchIiver employees lnspec-
tor Generals office clerk Inspector Gener-
ais office; to the chief clerk Of the
Bureau of Military Justice.
In the Quartermaster-Gsneral Office, a
clerk is designated to take charge of and
account for the official stamps, &C., and
| eight clerks are supplied with them.
In the Office of Commissary General Of
Subsistence, the stamps required for the
use of the office are placed in charge of one
clerk Of class two.
In the Surgeon Generals Office, the
| Bureau Of Medical Statistics, the Paymas-
terGeneral's Office, and the Office of the
Chief of Engineers, the stamps are placed
in the hands Of clerks, while the plumber of
| officers and employees, in or connected
with the Signal Office, at the various
stations of observation throughout the
country who are furnished with official
postage stamps for the purpose of paying
| postage on official correspondence, is liz.
In the Post Office Department they are
issued to the following officers and en-
ployes Postmaster General, 3 assistant
| postmasters- general, Assistant Attorney
General for Post-Office Department, sup
erintendent of foreign mails, Superinten6-
ent Of Money-Order System, ! chief clerk
of Department, chief of division of mail
depredations, l postage-stamp agent at
New York, postal-card agent at Spring
| field, Massachusetts,, 73 special agents, 343
all way post-office head clerks, 917 route
agents, 1913 mail-route messengers, and 33,-
7S0 postmasters /; a total of 81, 81.
In the Department of the Interior, in the
Secretary's office the official postage stamps
are in the custody of the superintendent Of
| uocuUenLs, VINO ISSUES Lnetn on the requlSl-
ton of the chief clerk Of the Department,
to the chief messenger and to the clerk in
immediate charge Of the document room,
who stamp all official mail matter leaving
the Department.
Official stamps are also issued BY the
superintendent of documents to the follow
| ing Bureaus, on requisition of their respec-
tive heads The Bureau of Indian Affairs,
the Bureau of Education, the Patent Office,
the General Land Office, the Pension Office,
the Census Office, and the National Mu-
scum.
In the Bureau of Indian Affairs the oef-
cial stamps are in the keeping of clerk of
the first class, whose duty it Is to stamp all
official mail. Stamps are also furnished by
this Bureau TO the following odjcers: To 5
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