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priation acts for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1903, and June 30, 1904, Act April 21, 1902, c. 563, § 1, 32 Stat. 111, and Act March 3, 1903, c. 1009, § 1, 32 Stat. 1169.

The rental or purchase of canceling machines is authorized by further provisions of Act March 3, 1903, c. 1009, § 1, post, under chapter 5 of this Title.

ACT MARCH 1, 1899, c. 327, § 2.

Appropriations not available for incapacitated employés; civil pension roll, etc., prohibited.

The provisions of this section, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 2631, are repeated in the same language in the postal service appropriation acts for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1903, and June 30, 1904, Act April 21, 1902, c. 563, § 2, 32 Stat. 118, and Act March 3, 1903, c. 1009, § 7, 32 Stat. 1176.

ACT MARCH 3, 1901, c. 851, § 1.

Limitation of rent, etc., for third class post-offices; leasing premises for first, second, and third class post-offices.

The provisions of this act set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 2631, are repeated in the same language in the postal service appropriation acts for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1903, and June 30, 1904, Act April 21, 1902, c. 563, § 1, 32 Stat. 111, and Act March 3, 1903, c. 1009, § 1, 32 Stat. 1169.

CHAPTER TWO.

Carriers, Branch Offices, and Receiving-Boxes; [Special Delivery; Rural Free Delivery.]

Secs. 3865, 3866.

ACT JAN. 3, 1887, c. 14, § 1.

Letter-carrier delivery.

Provisions relating to officers of the free-delivery service in the PostOffice Department are set forth or referred to ante, under Title IX, "The Post Office Department."

Provisions relating to rural free-delivery service, authorizing the classification and compensation of employés in such service, are contained in Act April 21, 1902, c. 563, § 1, amended by Act March 3, 1903, c. 1009, § 3, set forth below.

Sec. 3869.

Injuring receiving-boxes; penalty; [assault on carrier while on duty;

penalty.]

Injuring letter boxes on rural free-delivery routes or other mail routes, and injuring or stealing mail matter deposited in such boxes, are punishable by Act April 21, 1902, c, 563, § 1, as amended by Act March 3, 1903, c. 1009, § 3, set forth at the end of this chapter.

Special delivery messengers when actually engaged in carrying, etc., mail, are to be deemed carriers within the meaning of this section, by Act March 3, 1903, c. 1009, § 4, set forth below.

ACT MARCH 3, 1903, c. 1009, § 4.

Special delivery messengers deemed carriers.

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 ninety-five, fifty-four hundred and seventy-two, and fiftyfour hundred and seventy-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

Act March 3, 1903, c. 1009, § 4, 32 Stat. 1176.

This section is part of the postal service appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, cited above.

The sections mentioned in this section are set forth respectively in Comp. St. 1901, pp. 2638, 2716, and 3694, and relate to postal crimes.

Sec. 3874.

ACT MARCH 3, 1885, c. 342, §§ 3-6.

Special delivery of letters; special stamps.

Provisions for the manufacture of special delivery stamps are contained in Act April 21, 1902, c. 563, § 1, set forth under chapter 5 of this Title.

Sec. 6. [Amended. Act March 3, 1903, c. 1009, § 2.]

This section is amended by Act March 3, 1903, c. 1009, § 2. to read as set forth at the end of this chapter.

ACT APRIL 21, 1902, c. 563, § 1. [As amended 1903.]

Rural free-delivery service; special agents; route inspectors; clerks; carriers; substitute carriers; classification; compensation.

That on and after July first, nineteen hundred and two, the Postmaster-General be, and is hereby, authorized to classify the rural free-delivery service and fix the compensation to employees in such service as follows:

Special agents in charge of divisions at not exceeding two thousand four hundred dollars per annum.

Special agents, four classes, graded in even hundreds of dollars, at one thousand three hundred, one thousand four hundred, one thousand five hundred, and not exceeding one thousand six hundred dollars per annum.

Route inspectors, four classes, graded in even hundreds of dollars, at nine hundred, one thousand, one thousand one hundred, and not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars per annum.

Clerks, four classes, graded in even hundreds of dollars, at nine hundred, one thousand, one thousand one hundred, and not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars per annum.

Carriers at salary not exceeding six hundred dollars per annum and no other or further allowance or salary shall be made to said carriers. But the carriers shall not be prohibited from doing an ex

press-package business provided it does not interfere with the discharge of their official duties.

Under such regulations as the Postmaster-General may prescribe, a substitute carrier may be employed, at the expense of the regular carrier, to temporarily perform the service on any rural free-delivery mail route.

The Postmaster-General may allow such per diem and other incidental expenses in connection with the rural free-delivery service as Congress may from time to time provide.

Act April 21, 1902, c. 563, § 1, 32 Stat. 112.

These are provisions following an appropriation for the employés in the rural free-delivery service in the postal service appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, cited above.

A superintendent and other officers for rural free-delivery service, in the Post Office Department, are provided for by appropriations in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, Act Feb. 25, 1903, c. 755, § 1, 32 Stat. 900. And division superintendents, as well as special agents, route inspectors, clerks, and carriers, are provided for by the postal service appropriation act for the same year. Act March 3, 1903, c. 1009, § 1, 32 Stat. 1170. Investigation of and report on uniform metal lock box for patrons.

The Postmaster-General is hereby directed to investigate and report to Congress as soon as possible, the advisability and practicability of purchasing and adopting a uniform metal lock box at a price not to exceed fifty cents, for the purpose of selling the same to patrons on rural free-delivery routes at cost.

Act April 21, 1902, c. 563, § 1, 32 Stat. 113.

This is a further provision of the postal service appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, cited above.

Injuring rural free delivery or other mail route letter boxes; injuring or stealing mail deposited therein; penalty.

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.

Act April 21, 1902, c. 563, § 1, 32 Stat. 113. Act March 3, 1903, c. 1009, § 3, 32 Stat. 1175.

This is a further provision of the postal service appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, amended by a provision of the similar act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, cited above. As originally enacted it was as follows:

"Whoever shall hereafter 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, 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 mat

ter 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."

It is amended by Act March 3, 1903, c. 1009, § 3, cited above, to read as set forth here.

Injuring receiving boxes is punishable by Rev. St. § 3869, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 2638. Injuring mail matter deposited in letter boxes is punishable by Rev. St. § 5466, set forth in Comp. St. 1991, p. 3691. Unlawfully entering a railway post-office car or assaulting a railway postal clerk on duty are punishable by Act March 3, 1903, c. 1009, § 5, set forth under chapter 10 of this title.

Rural free delivery special agents, route inspectors, etc.; authority to administer oaths.

That hereafter special agents, route inspectors, and examining inspectors in the rural free-delivery service shall be authorized and empowered to administer oaths to carriers and other persons employed in said service or in connection with any business relating to the same.

Act April 21, 1902, c. 563, § 1, 32 Stat. 113.

This is a further provision of the postal service appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, cited above.

ACT MARCH 3, 1903, c. 1009, § 2.

Compensation of persons employed to make deliveries.

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 Post-Office Department.'

Act March 3, 1903, c. 1009, § 2, 32 Stat. 1175.

This section is part of the postal service appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904. It amends Act March 3, 1885, c. 342, § 6, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 2641, to read as set forth here.

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ACT MARCH 3, 1901, c. 851, § 1.

Second-class privileges annulled only after hearing.

Provisions for the employment of special counsel in second class mail privilege suits at an expense not exceeding the temporary appropriation of $25,000 are contained in the postal service appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, Act March 3, 1903, c. 1009, § 1, 32 Stat. 1174.

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Second, third, and fourth class matter not to be returned or remailed until fully prepaid; notice of non-delivery.

Provisions for remailing to the sender third and fourth class mail matter are contained in Act March 3, 1903, c. 1009, § 9, set forth below.

ACT MARCH 3, 1903, c. 1009, § 9.

Third and fourth class matter not to be remailed to sender until fully prepaid; notice of non-delivery.

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.

Act March 3, 1903, c. 1009, § 9, 32 Stat. 1176.

This section is part of the postal service appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, cited above. Previous provisions for the returning or remailing of second, third, and fourth class mail matter and for notice of nondelivery are contained in Act June 13, 1898, c. 446, § 4, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 2664.

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