Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-15
GROUPING THE WORK
REDIsTRIBUTING DUTIES OF POS
TAI ADMINISTRATION.
Order Issued by the Postmaster Gen.
eTal Reassigning Functions of
His Assistants.

Postmaster General Cortelyou late yes
terday afternoon issued an order of far
reaching Importance, redistributing the du-
ties of the four assistant postmasters gen.
eral and affecting the entire postal service.
1t is as follows:
1t is hereby ordered that the division of
appointments, division of bonds and COM
missions and the division of city free de-
livery, heretofore under the supervision of
the fourth assistant postmaster general, be
transferred and assigned to the first assist
ant postmaster general; that the division
of money orders, heretofore under the SUI
pervision Of the first assistant postmaster
general, be transferred and assigned to the
third assistant postmaster general; that the
division Of files and records, under the SUI
pervision of the third assistant postmaster
general, be abolished and It's personnel and
work assigned to the Office of the chief
clerk of that bureau; that the Office of the
topographer, heretofore under the super
vision Of the Postmaster General, and the
division of dead letters and the division of
post office supplies, heretofore under the SUI
pervlsion of the first assistant postmaster
general be transferred and assigned to the
fourth assistant postmaster general; that
the division superintendent, the rural
agents and the clerks at division headquar-
tiers, rural free delivery service, heretofore
under the supervision of the fourth assist
assigned to the Postmaster General (divi-
sion of post Office inspectors and mail dep
redations); that all clerks In the depart
ment engaged In handling supplies and In
the work Incident thereto be transferred
and assigned to duty In the division Of sup
plies, office of the fourth assistant post
master general, and that the organization
of the Post Office Department shall be as
follows:
Department Organization.
Office of the Postmaster GeneraI-Chief
clerk, private secretary, assistant attorney
general, purchasing agent, chief inspector
division Of post office inspectors), appoint
ment clerk dsbursing clerk.
Office of the first assistant postmaster
general-Division of appointments, division
of bonds and commissions, division of sal
aries and allowances, division of city de-
livery, division of correspondence.
Office of the second assistant postmaster
GENERALIZATION of railway mail service,
division of foreign malls, division of rail-
way adjustments, division of contracts d.
vision of inspection, division of equipment.
Office of the third assistant postmaster
general-Division of finance, division of
stamps, division of money orders, division
of registered mails. division of classical
ton, division of redemption.
Office of the fourth assistant postmaster
general-Division of rural delivery, division
of supplies, division of dead letters, division
of topography.
The regulations of the Post Office De-
partment are hereby amended In conform
ity with the foregoing transfers and desig-
nations.
This order is to take effect December l.
1905. GEORGE B. CORTELYOU,
PoStnoa