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Chapter 13.-DISPOSITION OF UNDELIVERED, UNMAILABLE, AND DEAD MAIL
MATTER-Continued ..............
SEC. 435. Unmailable matter from railway offices, how treated. 436.
Unmailable matter inadvertently forwarded, how treated. 437.
Postmasters to return unmailable matter to senders. 435. Matter re-
turned to senders at other post-offices. 439. Held for postage matter
that cannot be returned to sender. 440. Disposition of destructive
unmailable matter. 441. Unmailable matter to be promptly sent to
dead-letter office. 442. How matter must be sent to the dead-letter
office. 443. How to make up and transmit returns of unmailable mat-
ter. 444. Advertisement of unclaimed and undelivered matter. 445.
Advertising foreign letters. 446. Displaying lists of advertised
letters. 447. Pay for advertising letters. 443. Charge on advertised
letters. 449. Advertisement of unclaimed matter. 450. Matter that
should not be advertised. 451. Form of the advertisement. 452.
Advertisements in newspapers. 453. Advertised matter to be so
marked. 454. Letters from dead-letter office to be advertised. 455.
Fictitious matter not to be advertised. 456. Request matter. 457.
Card matter. 458. Postage must be prepaid on card and request mat-
ter. 459. Unclaimed official matter to be treated as card matter.
460. Postmasters' letters to be treated as card letters. 461. Date of
arrival and return of card matter. 432. Collection of postage on
short-paid returned card matter. 463. Local letters not returned
to another post-office. 464. Disposition of hotel card matter.
465. Return of other than first class-card and request matter.
466. Matter unclaimed after return to sender. 467. Disposition of
missent matter. 468. Authority of Postmaster-General to kill let-
ters. 469. Final disposition of unclaimed matter. 470. Undeliv-
ered matter to show reason for non-delivery. 471. Disposition of re-
fused second-class matter. 472. Disposition of other refused matter.
473. Return of "no unclaimed and refused matter." 474. State-
ments of unclaimed matter. 475. Disposition of refused unmaila-
ble matter. 476. Hotel matter without card or request. 477. All
hotel matter to be stamped. 478. Disposition of dead printed mat-
ter. 479. Dead foreign printed matter. 480. Dead domestic printed
matter. 481. Dead postal cards. 482. Return of dead matter.
483. Record of valuable dead letters. 484. Return of dead letters
containing money to owners. 485. Return of undelivered dead
money-letters back to dead-letter office. 486. Returned dead money-
letters must be registered. 487. Other than money dead letters
need not be registered. 488. Valuable dead letters must not be
forwarded. 489. Dead letters not valuable may be forwarded.
Chapter 14.-LOST LETTERS AND MAIL DEPREDATIONS ....
SEC. 490. Postmasters to report lost mail-matter to chief special agent.
491. What fact such report must state. 492. Postmasters to imme-
diately report robbery of post-office. 493. Cases of mail robbery to
be reported at once. 494. Arrest of criminals to be reported to
United States district attorney. 495. Examination of persons ar-
rested. 496. Robbery of mails in vicinity of post-office. 497. Mon-
eys recovered from mail robbers.
Chapter 15.-PAYMENT OF EMPLOYÉS OF THE RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE BY
POSTMASTERS
SEC. 498. Record of arrivals and departures to be examined daily.
499. Pay withheld for failure to sign record. 500. Preliminary no-
tice to paying postmaster.
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POSTMASTERS-Continued....
SEC. 501. Notice to Second Assistant Postmaster-General. 502. Ab-
sence for more than thirty days to be reported. 503. Partial
suspension of pay pending final instructions. 504. The cause of
deduction of pay, etc., how noted. 505. No signature and advance
signature, how noted. 506. Keys and records must be turned in
before final settlement. 507. Record of arrivals and departures to
be sent to division superintendent. 508. No discretion to be used
in reporting failures. 503. Instructions as to paying employés,
from whom received. 510. Payments to be made promptly at end
of month. 511. Distinction between substitute and acting employé.
512. Authority for paying acting employés. 513. Manner of paying
acting employés.
Chapter 16.-MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RESPECTING DUTIES OF POST-
MASTERS....
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SEC. 514. Records at post-offices of property and supplies. 515. In-
ventories of public property to be made in duplicate. 516. Dupli-
cates, how to be disposed of. 517. Postmasters not to receive
moneys from predecessors, unless. 518. Assistants to be appointed.
519. Oaths of office to be sent to department. 520. Who to have
access to mail-matter in post-offices. 521. Mails not to be opened
in reach of unauthorized persons. 522. Postmasters must collect
and examine waste paper, etc. 523. No post-office to be located in
bar-room. 524. Loungers not to be permitted in post-office. 525.
Business hours at post-offices. 526. Transaction of other business
at fourth-class post-offices. 527. Changing site of post-office. 528.
Receiving-box for mail-matter at fourth-class post-offices. 529.
Place for mail-matter awaiting delivery and for stamps. 530. Sanc-
tity of seals inviolable. 531. Postmasters not to give information
respecting mail-matter. 532. Postmasters powerless to remit fines
or overcharges on mail-matter. 533. Official correspondence; re-
turn of official papers. 534. How postmasters should reply to of
ficial correspondence. 535. Postal Guide supplied officially and to
be consulted. 536. Postmasters in doubt as to law to ask instruc-
tions. 537. Attention to be given to official printed circulars. 532.
How postmasters are to address the Department. 539. Public docu-
ments and property to be turned over to successor. 540. Creden-
tials of special agents to be demanded. 541. Postmasters not to
act as lottery agents.
TITLE III.
TRANSPORTATION OF THE MAILS.
Chapter 1.-DESIGNATION OF POST-ROADS OVER WHICH THE MAILS MAY BE
CARRIED..
SEC. 542. What are post-roads. 543. The Postmaster-General may es-
tablish service on post-roads. 544. All court-houses to be supplied
with mail. 545. Carrying the mail on canals. 546. Carrying the
mail on plank-roads. 547. Carrying the mail on waters of the
United States. 548. Extending mail facilities to special post-offices.
549. Selecting post-roads. 550. When terminus of post-roads may
be changed. 551. Discontinuing service on post-roads. 552. Limit
of authority of Postmaster-General to establish post-roads. 553.
Penalty for obstructing the mails. 554. Delaying mail at a ferry;
penalty.
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Chapter 2.-CARRIAGE OF THE MAILS A GOVERNMENT MONOPOLY.-UN-
LAWFUL CARRIAGE OF MAIL-MATTER OUTSIDE OF THE MAILS.—SEIZURE
AND DETENTIONS OF UNLAWFUL MATTER IN THE MAILS.......
SEC. 555. Prohibition of private expresses. 556. Private carriers for-
bidden at carrier post-offices. 557. Penalty for carrying persons
acting as express. 558. Penalty for sending letters by private ex-
press. 559. Penalty for carrying letters out of the mail. 560. Pen-
alty for carrying letters on board a mail-vessel. 561. Foreign letters
only to be received from a post-office. 562. Vessels to deliver all let-
ters at post-office. 563. Special agents to search vessels for letters.
564. Seizing and detaining letters. 565. Forfeiture of seizures to
the United States. 566. Letters seized may be returned to senders.
567. Letters conveyed without compensation. 568. Letters in
stamped envelopes-excepted. 569. Postmasters must report viola-
tions of law. 570. Searches authorized. 571. Newspapers may be
carried out of the mail. 572. Such papers deposited in post-offices
must be paid.
Chapter 3.-ADVERTISEMENTS, PROPOSALS, AND CONTRACTS FOR CARRYING
THE MAIL....
SEC. 573. Advertisement of general mail-lettings. 574. Division of
the United States into contract sections. 575. Advertisement of
routes omitted in general letting. 576. Notice of intention to change
terms of contract. 577. Miscellaneous mail-lettings defined. 578.
Advertisement of miscellaneous mail-lettings. 579. Rates to be
paid for advertisements. 580. Proposals for carrying the mail; how
delivered and opened. 581. Proposals to be accompanied by bonds
approved by postmasters. 582. Sureties on bidders' bonds must
qualify. 583. Amount of bond stated in advertisement. 584. Quali-
fication of sureties on more than one bond. 585. Bids to le accom-
panied by a certified check or draft. 586. Time of returning drafts
to unsuccessful bidders. 587. Penalty for illegal approval of bonds
by postmasters. 588. All proposals to be recorded and filed. 589.
Combinations to prevent bids; penalty. 590. Caution to post-
masters signing bidders' bonds. 591. What are legal bids. 592.
Bidders must inform themselves as to the character of the service.
593. Special instructions to bidders. 594. Alterations and modifi-
cation of bids destroy their validity. 595. Bidders must be of le-
gal age. 596. Bids which cannot be received. 597. Bids which
may be rejected. 598. Bidders not released from bonds until service
is commenced. 599. Persons who may not be interested in mail con-
tracts. 600. Bidders may not assign or transfer their bids. 601.
Contracts in name of United States and awarded to the lowest
bidder. 602. New sureties on contracts may be required or ac-
cepted. 603. In case of bidder failing, contract with other persons
authorized. 604. In case of failing contractor, contracts with other
persons authorized. 605. Temporary contracts authorized not to
exceed last contract price. 606. Penalty for making straw bids.
607. Contracts made without advertisement. 608. Mail apartments
to be furnished on mail steamboats. 609. Contracts to be executed
in duplicate. 610. Term of contracts. 611. Time of executing con-
tracts. 612. Payment on contracts. 613. Causes for which con-
tracts may be annulled. 614. Contractors to carry all mails and
care for mail-bags. 615. Special agents and postal supplies to be
carried free. 616. When postmasters may employ temporary
service.
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THE MAIL Continued
SEC. 617. After contracts have expired postmasters may not pay
for service. 618. Increase of compensation for increased service.
619. Increase of compensation for increased celerity. 620. Determi-
nation of compensation for increased celerity. 621. Decreased
compensation for decreased service. 622. Changes of sched-
ule; time of arrival and departure. 623. Contracts cannot be as-
signed or transferred. 624. Contracts not to be sublet without
consent of the Postmaster-General. 625. Subcontracts permissible
with consent of the Postmaster-General. 626. Regulations under
which subcontracts may be made. 627. Mail-messenger service.
623. Mail-carriers to receive mail for delivery at next post-office.
Chapter 4.-ADJUSTMENT OF COMPENSATION TO RAILROADS FOR CARRY-
ING THE MAILS ....
SEC. 629. Conditions of railway service and rates of pay for same.
630. Refusal to provide post-office cars. 631. Dimensions of, and
additional pay for, post-office cars. 632. Cars to be furnished as re-
quired by the Postmaster-General. 633. Mails, how and when to
be weighed. 634. Railroad companies to give notice of their readi-
ness for weighing. 635. Compensation of railroads reduced ten
per centum. 636. Compensation of railroads reduced five per
centum more. 637. Congress may fix compensation to be paid land-
grant railroads. 638. Congress does fix compensation to be paid
said roads. 639. When railroad companies must deliver mails to
post-offices. 640. Mails not to be carried beyond termini of routes
without authority. 641. Knowledge of specific requirements of ser-
vice, how obtained. 642. Postmaster-General to decide what trains
shall carry the mail. 643. Railway company must carry mails on
any train. 644. Must carry supplies and special agents. 645.
When mail may be carried on railway routes by horse express. 646.
Railway companies to report receipts and expenses. 647. Commu-
nications affecting pay of railroads, how addressed. 648. Auditor to
furnish instructions respecting financial agent.
Chapter 5.-FOREIGN MAIL SERVICE
SEC. 649. Transportation of domestic mails through foreign countries.
650. Transportation of foreign mails through the United States.
651. Foreign mails in transit to be treated as domestic. 652. Con-
tracts for carrying foreign mails. 653. How foreign mails may be
carried. 654. Limit of compensation for carrying foreign, mails.
655. Foreign mail contractors may be fined. 656. Foreign mail
contracts may be terminated by Congress.
Chapter 6.-INSPECTION AND VERIFICATION OF SERVICE RENDERED BY
CARRIERS OF THE MAIL-OF FINES AND DEDUCTIONS........
658. How
SEC. 657. Record of arrivals and departures of the mails.
postmasters should report arrivals and departures of the mail. 659.
Special reports when required. 650. Disposition of regular and
special reports. 661. Duplicate reports to be preserved in post-
offices. 662. Delivery of mail to post-offices on star routes. 663.
Postmasters to report delinquent mail-carriers. 664. Certain delin-
quencies to be specially reported. 665. Deductions for contractors'
failures, fines for their delinquencies. 666. When postmasters must
notify contractors of failures. 667. Contractors to make specific
excuses for each delinquency. 663. Causes for which forfeitures
must occur. 669. Causes for which fines will be imposed. 670.
Deductions and fines upon railroad companies.
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Chapter 7.-MAIL EQUIPMENTS..
SEC. 671. Term mail-bags includes what. 682. Every mail-route must
be supplied with mail-bags. 673. Applications for mail-bags must
state what. 674. Applications for supplies to Second Assistant
Postmaster-General. 675. Repair of mail-bags by postmasters, etc.
676. Mail-bag in transit becoming unsound. 677. What mutilation
of a mail-bag may be allowed. 678. Sacks containing public docu-
ments. 679. Damaged mail-bags at post-offices which are mail-bag
depositories. 630. Surplus mail-bags not to accumulate. 681.
Equal exchange or reciprocal return of locked pouches. 682. Reg-
ister of outgoing and incoming mails to be kept. 683. Names of
depositories for mail-bags and locks. 684. Account of depositing
post-offices to be rendered. 685. Surplus stock to be kept apart
from the current stock. 686. Legitimate use of mail-bags restricted
to what. 687. Canvas sacks may be taken by publishers, when.
688. Waste or abuse of mail-bags to be prevented. 689. Mail-bags
not to be purchased by postmasters. 690. Mail-catchers, how fur-
nished. 691. Applications for mail-bags, etc., to state reasons.
692. Mail locks and keys, by whom furnished. 693. Care of mail-
keys; penalty for loss. 694. Mail-keys to have a specific number.
695. Exchange of mail-keys by railway-mail employés. 696. Re-
ceipts to be always taken for mail-keys. 697. Repairing mail-locks
and keys forbidden. 698. Defective keys to be reported to the
department. 699. Brass locks not to be sent to iron-lock post-
offices. 700. Proper course when defective key will not open mail-
lock. 701. Proper course when defective lock cannot be opened.
702. Fastening-strap never to be cut. 703. Economy in the use of
mail-locks. 704. Unlawful use of mail-bags to be reported to the
department. 705. How to address communications on mail equip-
ments.
TITLE IV.
THE RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE.
Chapter 1.-ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL PROVISIONS...
SEC. 706. The General Superintendent of Railway Mail Service. 707.
Division Superintendents. 508. Offices: post-offices for distributing
mail in transit. 709. Employés of railway mail service. 710. Ap-
pointment of employés. 711. Uniform for employés. 712. Division
superintendents not to recommend appointments. 713. Assignment
of chief head clerks.
SEC. 714. Employés to carry instructions with them. 715. Employés
to report errors discovered in the Postal Guide. 716. Employés to
be examined in the postal laws, etc. 717. One employé to have
charge of office. 718. Accountability of employé in charge of office.
719. Assistants to obey employé in charge. 720. Receiving mail at
car; canceled stamps to be refused. 721. Cancellation of postage-
stamps. 722. Postmarking stamps not to be used for cancellation.
723. Receiving and delivering second-class mail at cars. 724. Mail
to be made up by States. 725. Separate mail for delivery and mail
for distribution. 726. Direct packages. 727. Letters must not be
placed in pouch loose. 728. Facing slips to be usel. 729. Check-
ing errors. 730. Disposition of slips received. 731. Distribution
of mail by schemes.
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