Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-04
Anti-Lottery Circular.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.-Assistant Attorney.
General Tyner, by direction of Postmaster Gen
erai WaDamaker, has prepared flor publication
IN the postal bulletin circular letter to post
masters, containing instructions for their guild
ance in the treatment of lottery matter under
the recent anti LOTTERY act. After quoting the
law, the circular reads as follows:
l. Section 1894 above qoted, applies to any let
ter, ordinary 10 registered, If 1t concerns any
lottery, gift concert or scheme described in the
section, and to lottery tickets. checks, drafts,
bills, postal notes or money orders for the pur-
chase of lottery tickets or any share or chance
in the lottery gift enterprise, TO any list OF
drawings at any lottery or similar scheme, and
forbids the carrying of them in the mails, and
for the delivery of them from the postofice.
2. The seal of letter or of any sealed packet,
postal cards and circular matter may, when
suspected of having been deposited or mailed in
violation of the provisions of this act. be exam
ined for the purpose OF ascertalnlng their char
scter.
act by the citizens to the lottery companies, and
their representatives. is as an act or violation of
the law, the mailing Of such matter by the
lottery companies to their customers or other
persons.
them for mailing that postal cards or circulars
are unavailable under the provision OF section
81. above quoted, the postmaster shall decline
to receive them. II they be found in a post
Office and the sender is unknown to the post
master or if they be discovered in tie mail in
transit, they should be Withdrawn and marked
ter general, accompanied by a special report
from the postmaster explaining the reason for
their detention.
6. The provisions OF this act apply to letters.
postal cards and circulars concerning lotteries
or similar schemes that come in mails from for
eign countries, and such matter received should
be treated if it originated in the United States.
Z. Matter sent in violation of the provisions of
section 1884, discovered by postmasters at in
termediate offices, should be withdrawn from
the mail and disposed of in the same manner as
If it had been discovered by the postmaster at
the Office of mailing or office of delivery, but
postmasters at intermediate offices should be
careful not to delay the transmission of other
mail in making special report for anything de-
clared by this act to be unavailable.
8. Newspapers, pamphlets and publications Of
all kinds bearing date before or since the 18th
dav of September, 1890, at which date the set
took effect, which contain advertisements of
any lottery, gift enterprise or similar scheme,
or whole part of the list of the prizes
awarded at drawings of lotteries similar
schemes are by the provisions OF this bill denied
carriage in the mails or delivery to subscribers
addresses. or to any other persons, or as sam
pie copies.' Postmasters should refuse to re-
ceive them from publishers or to deliver them
if, by inadvertence they reach the Office of des-
mail in transit they should be held until the re-
port concerning them can be made to the post
master general and instructions received from
him as to the disposition of them.
9. Foreign newspapers, pamphlets and publ
cations of all kinds containing printed matter
forbidden by provisions OF this act, should be
treated as II they were published in the United
States.
10. Clerks in the railway mail service, discov-
erIng matter the carriage of which is forbidden
by the provisions Of this act, should withdraw
aud forward it to their division superintendent
The division superintendent should treat such
matter in the same manner as postmasters are
herein instructed to treat it.
IL. The term lottery, - IS used in this act,
embraces all kinds of schemes. general or local, ,
for the distribution Of prizes by lottery or
chance, such as gift exhibition enterprises,
raffies or drawing OF prizes in money or property
at fairs hence letters. postal cards and circulars