The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1874-04-29


revenue agents, 10 supervisors of in
ternal revenue total of 67S Of
ficers receiving them directly from
the Department but Of the number
of clerks and assistants Of these of
ficers to whom they are thus intrusted
we are not advised.
The State Department furnishes
them to tho 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 Department of Justice
Has furnished official postage stamps 10
81 United States district attorneys, 6G
United States marsbals, aud 62 courts Of
the United States, making ip all l72 per-
cons who have been supplied with these
stamps for the purpose Of paying postage
on official correspondence, Stamps are
also used upon the official correspopd dence
Of this office and the Office of the Solicitor
or the Treasury. In y few instances where
letters have been written TO persons not
officers or employees Of tbe Department,
asking for information postage 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 voluminous.
He also states that
About ne-half the time Of a Srst,olass
clerk is employed in keeping an account Of
the postage samps, and iransmttting them
to the officers entitled TO them. and a con-
siderable portion Of the time Of one mes.en,
ger !. now occupied in deliverips mail
matter in the city.
The Navy Department furnishes
them to the eight bureaus of the
Navy department. including the
Naval Observatory, Photographic
Office, Nautical Almanac Office, Sig.
nal Office, naval hospitals the COM
mandants Of the several navy-yards
and rendezvous, receiving ships, and
offices connected herewith the
Superintendent Of the naval A cademy;
the Admiral of the Navy; the governor
OF the Naval Asylum; the purchasing
paymasters ut Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, Boston, New York, Phila
delphia, Baltimore, Washington. Nor
folk, and San Francisco naval sta
tions at League Island, New London,
Mound City, aud New Orleans IA
val examining and retiring board /;
and such of the vessels of the United
States Navy as may be in our ports
In theWar Department the stamps
are furnished to the Adjutant Gen
eral, the chief clerk of the office, and,
in his absence, another clerk, de-
signated by the Adjutant General,
and clerk who affixes the stamps TO
the letters and packages to be mail
ed Inspector.Gen II. B. Marcy;
Inspector General Il. Schriver; en-
ployes Inspector Generals office
clerk Inspector. Generals Office to
she chief clerk Of tho Bureau of
Military Justice.
In the Quartermaster- Generals
Office q 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- Cen
eral Of Subsistence the stamps re-
quired 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
Paymaster Generals Office, and the
office of the Chief of Engineers, the
stamps are placed in the hands Of
clerks, while the number of officers
and employees, in or connected with
the Signal Office, at the various sta
tions Of observation throughout the
country who are furnished with Off,
cial postage stamps, for the purpose
of paying postage on official CORES.
pondence, is 112.
In the Post Office Department
they are issued to tho following off
GERS and employees: l Postmaster
General, 3 assistant postmasters.
general, Assistant Attorney Gen.
eral for the Post Office Department,
! superinte ndent of foreign mails, 1
Superintendent of Money. Order Sys-
tenn, ] chief clerk of Department, l
chief of division Of mail depredations,
l postage stamp agent ut New York,
/ postal card agent at Springfield,
Massachusetts,, 70 ecialagents, 343
railway post Office head clerks, 917
route agents, 1913 mail route messen-
gers, and 33,7sD postmastersi a to-
tai of 35,3l7,
In the Department of the Interior,
in the Secretary's Office the official
postage stamps are in the custody of
tho superintendent of documents,
who ISSUES them, on the requisition
of the chief clerk Of the Department,
to the chief messenger and to the
clerk in immediate charge of the doe
ument-room, who stamp all official
mail matter leaving the Department,
Official stamps are also issued by
the superintendent OF documents to
the following bureaus, on requisition
of their respective heads: The Bu.
reau Of Indian Affairs, the Bureau OF
Education, the Patent Office, the
General Land Office, the Pension
Office, the Census Office, and the
National Museum.
In the Bureau OF Indian Affairs
the official stamps are in the keeping
Of q clerk Of the first class, whose
dutv n in In stamn all official mail