The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-10-09
ANTI-lOTTERY.
A ICIRCULAR SENT OUT BY
THE POSTAL AUTHOR
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EXPLAINING THE NEW LAW.
Progress of Railway Building in the
United States for the Past Year.
Other Items by Wire.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.-Assistant At
torney General Tyner by direction of Post
master General Wannamaker, has prepared
for publication i'll the postal bulletin, cir
cular to postmasters containing instructions
for their guidance in the treatment of lot
terry matter under the recent anti-lottery
law. The circular reads as follows:
l. The penal statute above quoted applies
to any letter, ordinary or registered, if it
concerns any lottery gift concert or scheme
described in the sect II referred to, lottery
tickets, checks, drafts, bills, money, postal
notes or money orders for the purchase
of lottery tickets or any share or chance in
any lottery or gift enterprise, any lists of
drawings of lottery or similar scheme,
and forbid the carrying of them in the
mails or the delivery of them from the
postoffice.
3. A letter or of any sealed
package, postal card or circular matter
May, when susl ectel of having been de
posted or mailed in violation of the pro-
vision of this act, be examined for the pur-
pose of ascertaining their character.
8. The mailing of matter intermediately
under this act by citizens to lottery COM
panies and their representatives is as clear
a violation of the law as the mailing of
such matter by the lottery companies to
their customers or other persons.
4. When it is known at the time of de-
posting them for mailing that postal cards
or circulars are unmailaole under the FRO,
vision of sectioa 1891, above quoted, the
postmaster shall decline TO receive them.
If they be found in a postotfice and the
sender is unknown to the postmaster, or if
they be discovered in the mail in transit
they should be Withdrawn and marked or
stamped fraudulent and sent to the post
master general accompanied by special
report from the postmaster explaining the
reason for their detention.
5. TIL provisions of this act apply to let
tiers, postal cards and circulars concerning
lotteries or similar schemes that come in
the mails from foreign countries and such
matter received should be treated as if il
originated in the United States.
6. Matter sent in violation of the proviS-
ions of section 1894 discovered by poslmas-
tiers at intermediate offices should be with
drawn 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 the office of delivery but the postmaster
transmission of other mail III making spec
ial search for anything declared by this
act to be unavailable.
Newspapers, pamphlets and publications
of all kinds bearing date before or since the
10Th day of September, 1880, at which date
the act took effect, watch contain an adyer-
tisemeut of any lottery, gift enterprise or
list of prizes awarded at the drawings of
lotteries or similar schemes are by the pro-
visions of this act denied carriage in the
mails or delivery TO subscribers or to any
other persons, or as sample copies Post
masters should refuse to receive them from
the publishers, or To deliver them. If by
chance they reach the Office OF destination
when found by postmasters in the mail In
trsnsit they shou d be held until the report
concerning them can be made 10 the post
master general and Instructions rec lived as
to the disposition of them.
Sec. 8. Foreign newspapers, pamphlets
and publications of all kinds containing
printed matter forbidden by the provisions
of the &C: should be treated as if they were
published in the United States
Sec. 8. Clerks In the railway mail service
discovering ma ter the carriage of which is
forbidden by the provisions of thi act
should withdraw and forward it to the di
vision superintendent. The division super
intendent should treat sucu matter i'll the
same manner as POslmasterS were nereln III
structed to treat 1t.
The term lottery as used 10 this act en-
braces all kinds OF schemes, general or local,
for the distribution Of prizes by lottery or
chance, such as gift exhibitions, enter
prises, concerns or the drawing of prizes i'll
money or properly at fairs. Hence letters,
postal cards aud circulars concerning them
and newspapers. pamphlets and other pub
LEGATIONS containing advertisements are I'M
mailed.
IL. The provisions of section 1929, relat-
ing to registered letters, and of section 4t4l,
relating to money orders, Doth of which
SECTIONS are set out in full in the preceding
copy of the act, apply to such matter at the
Office of delivery only, and are to to be en-
forced upon the direct orders of the post
master general.
II. Postmasters and other postal officials
and employees are expected to be diigent in
carrying out the foregoing instructions for
the enforcement of this act.