Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-05-29
BY Fine.
MutiIators of Rural Mail Boxes May
Be Prosecuted.


Be Prosecuted.
iFrom Tuesdays Dailv.l
Notice has been received by Post
master A. w. Lee, from the general
superintendent of the rural free de,
livery system, relative to that part of
the p~ostoffice appropriation bin which
has recently become effective, provid-
ing for the protection of rural delivery
mail boxes. Under this act the de-
stroying of a rural route letter box, or
the defacing Or iniuring of any mail
matter deposited therein is punishable
by a fine OF no more than $1,000, or by
Imprisonment for not more than three
years,
The p~ostofice department has issu-
ed a bulletin relative to the status of
the postal and money order exchange
existing between the United States
and Cuba, in which it is announced
that the arrangement o in force pro-
Nldlng the same rate for the inter-
change of money and mails between
the two countries, that exists in the
United States, shall continue and re-
main in effect pending a formal postal
convention between this country and
Cuba.
The following paragraph is taken
from the postofiice appropriation bill:
Whoever shall hereafter willfully
or maliciously injure, tear down, or de-
stroy any letter box or other recep-
tacle established by order of the post
master-general or approved or desig-
mated by him for the receipt or deliv-
cry of mail matter on any rural free
delivery route, or shall break open the
same, or willfully or maliciously in
jure, deface, or destroy any mail mat
ter deposited therein, or shall willful-
ly take or steal such matter from or
out of such letter box or other recep-
tacle, or shall willfully aid or assist in
any of the aforementioned ~offenses,
shall for every such offense be pun
lshed by a fine of not more than one
thousand dollars, or by imprisonment
for not more than three years."
Mail interchange With Cuba.
BY order OF the postmaster general
the old postal regulations between the
United States and Cuba will exist for a
time, according to the order issued re
Gently, as follows:
office of the Postmaster General,
Washington, D. c., May 20, 1902.
"Order No. 52S.
Ordered: That the postal admins
tration of the republic of Cuba having
~concurred therein, as announced in
the cablegram of T. Estrada Palma,
president of said republic, to the Presi-
dent of the United States, under even
date herewith, pending the conclusion
of a postal convention between the
United States and Cuba, the status of
the Interchangeable postal service eX-
listing between said countries as pre-
scribed by Order No. 395, bearing date
of March so. 1901, of Postmaster Gen
eral of the United States Charles En-
DRY Smith, relative to the exchange of
mails between the United States and
| Cuba, shall be maintained: that is to
say, that articles mailed in the United
States addressed for delivery in Cuba,
and articles mailed in Cuba addressed
for delivery in the United States shall
continue to be carried between tha.two
countries, subject to the postage
rates, conditions and classification ap-
plicable to articles circulating in the
domestic mails of the United States;
and it is hereby
Further ordered: That the ar
idlSSllcut lSl StOlc1S dlu dO" III
force regarding the exchange of money
orders between the United States and
Cuba shall continue and remain in eff
feet until a formal convention shall be
signed between the two countries gov
erning the further exchange of money
orders between them.
III. c. Payne,
Postmaster General"
"The foregoing temporary conven-
ton between the United States Of
America and the republic of Cuba has
been negotiated and concluded, with
my advice and consent, and is hereby
approved and ratified, to take effect
from this date and continue in force
according to its terms.
"In testimony whereof. I have caus-
ed the great seal of the United States
to be hereunto affixed.
Theodore Roosevelt,
"By the President:
"John Hay,
Secretary of State.
washington, May 81, 1902"
Great seal of
1.-THE United States.