POSTAL SERVICE. Act of April 28, 1904, ch. 1759, 331. Sec. 8. Residence of Postmaster - R. S. Sec. 3831 Repealed, 331. Act of March 3, 1905, ch. 1488, 332. Renewal of Bonds by Postmasters, etc., 332. Act of March 3, 1903, ch. 1009, 332. Sec. 1. Salary of Postmaster of Chicago, 332. Act of March 3, 1905, ch. 1480, 333. Sec. 1. Employment of Substitute Clerks and Carriers, 333. Act of March 3, 1903, ch. 1009, 333. Sec. 3. Injuring Rural Free-Delivery Boxes, 333. Act of April 28, 1904, ch. 1759, 333- Carriers-Compensation. Soliciting Business-Carrying Permitted, 333. Act of March 3, 1903, ch. 1009, 333. Sec. 2. Special Delivery - Payment for Services, 333. 4. Official Character of Messengers, 334. Act of March 2, 1905, ch. 1304, 334. Restrictions on False Evidence as to Character of Publication - Penalty, 334 Act of April 27, 1904, ch. 1612, 334. Reading Matter for the Blind to Be Transmitted Free, 334. Act of March 3, 1905, ch. 1480, 335. Sec. 2. Return for Postage Overpaid, etc., 335. Act of March 3, 1903, ch. 1009, 335. Sec. 9. Remailing Third and Fourth Class Matter, 335. Act of April 28, 1904, ch. 1759, 335. Sec. 2. Transmitting in Bulk Third and Fourth Class Matter Without Stamps, 335. 7. Congressional Franking Privilege-Weight of Free Increased, 335 Act of March 3, 1905, ch. 1480, 336. Sec. 1. Railway Service-Weighing for Readjustment of Pay, 336. Act of April 28, 1904, ch. 1759, 336. Matter Sec. 4. Per Diem Charges of All Officers and Employees Restricted Act of March 3, 1905, ch. 1480, 336. Sec. 1. Discretionary Per Diem Allowance to Post-Office Inspectors, 336. Assignment of Railway Mail Clerks to Department DutyPreference, 337. Act of March 3, 1903, ch. 1009, 337. Sec. 5. Punishment for Entering Mail Cars, etc., 337. CROSS-REFERENCE. Mailing of Insect Pests, etc., Prohibited, see AGRICULTURE, ante, p. 3. SEC. 8. [Residence of postmaster R. S. sec. 3831 repealed.] That every postmaster shall reside within the delivery of the office to which he is appointed T or within the town or city where the same is situated, and section thirty-eight hundred and thirty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States is hereby repealed. [33 Stat. L. 441.] This is from the Post-Office Department Appropriation Act of April 28, 1904, ch. 1759. An Act To amend section sixty-six of the Act of June eighth, eighteen hundred and seventytwo, entitled "An Act to revise, consolidate, and amend the statutes relating to the PostOffice Department." [Act of March 3, 1905, ch. 1488, 33 Stat. L. 1259.] [Renewal of bonds by postmasters, etc.] That whenever any postmaster, clerk, carrier, or other person in the postal service, employed in the Post-Office Department or elsewhere, notifies the Postmaster-General of his desire to execute a new bond, or whenever any of the sureties of such postmaster, clerk, carrier, or other person, notifies the Postmaster-General of his desire to be released from such suretyship, or whenever the Postmaster-General deems a new bond necessary or expedient, the execution of the new bond may be directed by the Postmaster-General. When accepted by the Postmaster-General the sureties of postmasters in the prior bond shall be released from responsibility for all acts or defaults of the postmaster which may be done or committed subsequent to the last day of the quarter in which such new bond shall be executed and accepted, and the sureties of other persons in the prior bond shall be released from responsibility for all acts or defaults of such persons which may be done or committed subsequent to the day such new bond becomes operative. [33 Stat. L. 1259.] The provisions amended by the text are incorporated in R. S. sec. 3837, which is set out in vol. 5, p. 796. * * * [SEC. 1.] [Salary of postmaster of Chicago.] the salary of the postmaster of the city of Chicago is hereby fixed at eight thousand dollars [32 Stat. L. 1166.] per annum. * * * This is from the Post-Office Department Appropriation Act of March 3, 1903, ch. 1009. [Incapacitated employees - pensions and exemptions from service prohibited.] The provisions of the Act of April 21, 1902, ch. 563, set out in vol. 5, p. 812, are repeated in the subsequent Acts of March 3, 1903, ch. 1009, 32 Stat. L. 1176; April 28, 1904, ch. 1759, 33 Stat. L. 441; March 3, 1905, ch. 1480, 33 Stat. L. 1091. [Miscellaneous expenses at first and second class offices.] The provision of the Act of April 21, 1902, ch. 563, set forth in vol. 5, p. 814, is repeated in Act of March 3, 1903, ch. 1009, 32 Stat. L. 1169. [Limit of rent, light, and fuel for third class offices -leases for first, second, and third class offices.] The provisions of the Act of April 21, 1902, ch. 563, set out in vol. 5, p. 815, are repeated in the subsequent Acts of March 3, 1903, ch. 1009, 32 Stat. L. 1169; April 28, 1904, ch. 1759, 33 Stat. L. 432; March 3, 1905, ch. 1480, 33 Stat. L. 1086, with the exception of the substitution in the two Acts last named of the sum of "eighty dollars" for fuel and light in place of the words "sixty dollars" used in the previous Act. * [SEC. 1.] [Employment of substitute clerks and carriers.] * That hereafter when any clerk in post-offices of the first or second class, or in the Railway Mail Service; or any letter carrier in the city free-delivery service; is absent from duty from any cause, other than the fifteen days' annual leave with pay allowed by law, the Postmaster-General, under such regulations as he may prescribe, may authorize the employment of a substitute for such work, and payment therefor from the lapsed salary of such absent clerk, or letter carrier, at a rate not to exceed the pay of the grade of work performed by such substitute. * * [33 Stat. L. 1085.] * This is from the Post-Office Department Appropriation Act of March 3, 1905, ch. 1480. SEC. 3. [Injuring rural free-delivery boxes.] That so much of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three," approved April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and two, as relates to malicious injury or destruction of mail boxes, or the contents of such boxes, on any rural free-delivery route, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: "Whoever shall willfully or maliciously injure, tear down, or destroy any letter box or other receptacle established by order of the Postmaster-General, or approved or designated by him, for the receipt or delivery of mail matter on any rural free-delivery route, star route, or other mail route, or shall break open the same, or willfully or maliciously injure, deface, or destroy any mail matter deposited therein, or shall willfully take or steal such matter from or out of such letter box or other receptacle, or shall willfully aid or assist in any of the aforementioned offenses, shall for every such offense be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than three years." [32 Stat. L. 1175.] This is from the Post-Office Department Appropriation Act of March 3, 1903, ch. 1009. The provision amended hereby is set out in vol. 5, p. 822. * * * restrictions on On and after July first, [SEO. 1.] [Rural free-delivery carriers compensation soliciting business-carrying permitted.] nineteen hundred and four, letter carriers of the rural free-delivery service shall receive a salary not exceeding seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum, and no other or further allowance or salary shall be made to said carriers; and on and after said date said carriers shall not solicit business or receive orders of any kind for any person, firm, or corporation, and shall not, during their hours of employment, carry any merchandise for hire: Provided, That said carriers may carry merchandise for hire for and upon the request of patrons residing upon their respective routes, whenever the same shall not interfere with the proper discharge of their official duties, and under such regulations as the Postmaster-General may prescribe. [33 Stat. L. 440.] * * * This is from the Post-Office Department Appropriation Act of April 28, 1904, ch. 1759. SEC. 2. [Special delivery — payment for services.] That section six of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: SEC. 6. That to provide for the payment of such persons as may be employed for this service, the postmaster at any office designated by section three of this Act shall keep a record of the number of letters received at such office bearing such special stamp, which number shall correspond with the number entered in the receipt books heretofore specified, and at the end of each month he may pay to such person or persons employed a sum not exceeding eighty per centum of the face value of all such stamps received and recorded during that month: Provided, That nothing in this Act shall interfere with the prompt delivery of letters as now provided by law or regulations of the PostOffice Department." [32 Stat. L. 1175.] This and sec. 4 following are from the Post-Office Department Appropriation Act of March 3, 1903, ch. 1009. The provision amended by the text is set out in vol. 5, p. 825. SEC. 4. [Official character of messengers.] That every special-delivery messenger, when actually engaged in carrying or delivering letters or other mail matter under contract, directly or indirectly, with the Post-Office Department, or employed by the Post-Office Department, shall be deemed a carrier or person intrusted with the mail and having custody thereof within the meaning of sections thirty-eight hundred and sixty-nine, thirty-nine hundred and ninetyfive, fifty-four hundred and seventy-two, and fifty-four hundred and seventythree of the Revised Statutes of the United States. [32 Stat. L. 1176.] See note to sec. 2, supra. An Act To amend section thirteen of chapter three hundred and ninety-four of the supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States. [Act of March 2, 1905, ch. 1304, 33 Stat. L. 823.] [False evidence as to character of publication penalty.] That section thirteen of chapter three hundred and ninety-four of the supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended so as to read as follows: That any person who shall submit or cause to be submitted to any postmaster or to the Post-Office Department or any officer of the postal service any false evidence, relative to any publication for the purpose of securing the admission thereof at the second-class rate for transportation in the mails, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and for every such offense, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars. [33 Stat. L. 823.] The provision amended by the text is set out in vol. 5, p. 829. An Act To promote the circulation of reading matter among the blind. [Act of April 27, 1904, ch. 1612, 33 Stat. L. 313.] [Reading matter for the blind to be transmitted free.] That books, pamphlets, and other reading matter in raised characters for the use of the blind, whether prepared by hand or printed, in single volumes, not exceeding ten pounds in weight, or in packages, not exceeding four pounds in weight, and containing no advertising or other matter whatever, unsealed and when sent by public institutions for the blind, or by any public libraries, as a loan to blind readers, or when returned by the latter to such institutions or public libraries, shall be transmitted in the United States mails free of postage, and under such regulations as the Postmaster-General may prescribe. [33 Stat. L. 313.] SEC. 2. [Return for postage overpaid, etc.] That hereafter, whenever it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the Postmaster-General that any postage is paid on any mail matter for which service is not rendered, or is collected in excess of the lawful rate, he may, in his discretion, authorize the postmaster at the office where paid to refund the proper amount out of the postal receipts in the possession of the postmaster: Provided, That this provision shall apply to all applications for such refunds pending in the Post-Office Department at the time of the passage of this Act. [33 Stat. L. 1091.]• * * * This is from the Post-Office Department Appropriation Act of March 3, 1905, ch. 1480. SEC. 9. [Remailing third and fourth class matter.] That third and fourth class mail matter shall not be remailed to sender until the proper postage has been fully prepaid on the same: Provided, That in all cases when undelivered mail matter of the third and fourth class is of obvious value, the sender, if known, shall be given the opportunity of prepaying the return postage or accepting delivery to himself or upon his order, at the office where it is held, upon the payment of one cent postage for each card notice given him, under such regulations as the Postmaster-General may prescribe. [32 Stat. L. 1176.] This is from the Post-Office Department Appropriation Act of March 3, 1903, ch. 1009. SEC. 2. [Transmitting in bulk third and fourth class matter without stamps.] That hereafter, under such regulations as the Postmaster-General may establish for the collection of the lawful revenue and 'for facilitating the handling of such matter in the mails, it shall be lawful to accept for transmission in the mails quantities of not less than two thousand identical pieces of third or fourth class matter without postage stamps affixed: Provided, That postage shall be fully prepaid thereon, at the rate required by law for a single piece of such matter. [33 Stat. L. 440.] This and sec. 7 following are from the Post-Office Department Appropriation Act of April 28, 1904, ch. 1759. SEC. 7. [Congressional franking privilege-weight of free matter increased.] That hereafter the Vice-President, Members and Members-elect of and Delegates and Delegates-elect to Congress shall have the privilege of sending free through the mails, and under their frank, any mail matter to any Government official or to any person, correspondence, not exceeding four ounces in weight, upon official or departmental business. [33 Stat. L. 441 ] See note to sec. 2, supra. [Increase of indemnity.] The provision of the Act of April 21, 1902, ch. 563, set forth in vol. 5, p. 872, is repeated in the Act of March 3, 1903, ch. 1009, 32 Stat. L. 1174.. |