Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-12
POSTAL ORDER.

Section 232 of the postal regulations de-
fines what is personal correspondence as
Heretofore referred to, and says it cannot be
ascrihed to the signature of the sender, or to
the designation of his name, profession, rank,
place of origin and date of dispatch. Nor to a
| dedication or mark OF respect offered by the
sender. Or to the figures or signs merely in
tended to mark passage of text in order
TO call attention to them. Or to prices added
upon the quotations or prices current of ex-
change or markets, or in a book. Or to
printed commercial papers filled out in writ
ing, such as papers of legal procedure, deeds
of all kinds, way-bills, or bills of lading, In.
voices and the various documents or
insurance companies, circulars, handbills, etc.
| Or to instructions or requests TO Postmasters
to notify the sender in case of the non-dellv-
cry of other than frst-class matter, so that he
may send postage for its return. 1t appears
that citizens have abused the postal facilities
so as to require new order in lieu of Section
232, and it has been made, revoking that sec.
ton and substituting the following, which is
to be enforced now strictly. The Act of
March g. 1879, read "msilable matter of the
first-class shall embrace all matter wholly or
partially in writing, except as herein pro-
vided." These exceptions are now defined as
follows under that Act:
l. Corrected proof-sheets and manuscript
copy accompanying the same.
2. Date and name of the addressed and Of
the sender of circulars, and the correction Of
mere typographical letters therein.
8. Bills, receipts and orders for subscrip-
tons inelosed in second class publications
provided such bills, receipts and orders shall
be IN such form as to convey DO other infor-
nation that the name, location and subscrip-
ton price of the publication or publications
to which they refer
4. The name and address of the person to
whom second class matter may be sent, and
index figure of subscription book and words
and figures or both indicating the date on
which the subscription to such matter win
end.
5. Upon matter of the third class, or upon
the wrapper inclosing the same, the sender
may write his own name or address, with the
word from above and preceding the same,
and in either case may make simple marks
intended to designate a word or passage of
the text to which it is desired to call aGten
ton.
6. There may be placed upon the cover or
blank leaves of any book, or of any printed
matter of the third class, simple manuscript
dedication or inscription. Such dedication or
inscription must be confined to simple adj
dress or consignment of such book other
printed matter as mark of respect, and
must not contain anything that partakes of
the nature of personal correspondence.
z. Upon matter of the fourth class the
sender may write his own name or address
preceded by the word . FROM and also the
number and name of the article inclosed.
He may also write upon or attach to any
such articles by tag or label mark or num-
Der, name or letters, for the purpose of iden-
LITIGATION.
These orders are now to be enforced at the
Sacramento office to check a growing evil,
which has reached great proportions and has
led to personal correspondence in the shape
of orders, answers, bills, accounts of sales,
etc, bsing sent through the mails in classes
other than that to which they properly be-
long.