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... rate of postage . Some com- pensation for the loss in the rate may reasonably be expected from three sources , viz : First , an increased amount of correspondence ; second , the increased revenue to be derived from the substitution of ...
... rate of postage . Some com- pensation for the loss in the rate may reasonably be expected from three sources , viz : First , an increased amount of correspondence ; second , the increased revenue to be derived from the substitution of ...
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... rate , the loss of revenue by the difference in the rates may be estimated at $ 10,393,380.30 , as appears in the following : Value of 3 - cent stamps and stamped envelopes issued during the year ended June 30 , 1883 ..... Add 10 per ...
... rate , the loss of revenue by the difference in the rates may be estimated at $ 10,393,380.30 , as appears in the following : Value of 3 - cent stamps and stamped envelopes issued during the year ended June 30 , 1883 ..... Add 10 per ...
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... rate ... Deduct estimated loss occasioned by reduction of letter rate to 2 cents . $ 54 , 567 , 458 61 7,893 , 380 30 46,674 , 078 31 Add net profits from money - order business for the year ending June 30 , 1885 , as estimated by ...
... rate ... Deduct estimated loss occasioned by reduction of letter rate to 2 cents . $ 54 , 567 , 458 61 7,893 , 380 30 46,674 , 078 31 Add net profits from money - order business for the year ending June 30 , 1885 , as estimated by ...
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... rate for one year than for several years . It has been the practice of my predecessors to take leases from one to ten ... rates suitable buildings for four years , or such other time as may be deemed advisable . This subject is fully ...
... rate for one year than for several years . It has been the practice of my predecessors to take leases from one to ten ... rates suitable buildings for four years , or such other time as may be deemed advisable . This subject is fully ...
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... rates of pay have been greatly in- creased of late years ; the fact is otherwise . The cost per mile of trans- portation in 1854 was 11.4 cents ; in 1883 , notwithstanding the enor mous increase in the weight of mails and the superior ...
... rates of pay have been greatly in- creased of late years ; the fact is otherwise . The cost per mile of trans- portation in 1854 was 11.4 cents ; in 1883 , notwithstanding the enor mous increase in the weight of mails and the superior ...
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&c.-Continued annual pay Assistant Postmaster-General Average weight Boston Burlington cent Central Chicago Cincinnati clerk detailed Colo Corporate title Council Bluffs decrease Denver Dollars East East Saint Louis ended June 30 Evansville feet and inches fiscal year ended Fort Scott increase Initial and terminal Iowa July Junc Junction n. o. June 30 Kans Kansas City letters Louisville Mass ment Miles of route Milwaukee and Saint Minn money-order Nebr North Number of clerks number of miles Number of route Ohio Pacific paid Paul Rwy Pay per mile Pittsburgh Port postal postmasters pouches r. p. o. cars R. P. O. Connection Railroad railway post-office cars reserve car River Saint Joseph Saint Louis Saint Paul South stamps Tenn terminal stations Terre Haute title of company Toledo Total trips per week waukee weight of mail West York
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Страница 37 - A telegraph company occupies the same relation to commerce as a carrier of messages, that a railroad company does as a carrier of goods. Both companies are instruments of commerce, and their business is commerce itself. They do their transportation in different ways, and their liabilities are in some respects different, but they are both indispensable to those engaged to any considerable extent in commercial pursuits.
Страница 36 - The powers thus granted are not confined to the instrumentalities of commerce, or the postal service known or in use when the Constitution was adopted, but they keep pace with the progress of the country and adapt themselves to the new developments of time and circumstances.
Страница 62 - An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes...
Страница 33 - No letter or circular concerning lotteries, so-called gift concerts, or other similar enterprises, offering prizes, or concerning schemes devised and intended to deceive and defraud the public, for the purpose of obtaining money under false pretences, shall be carried in the mail.
Страница 630 - ... any lottery, gift enterprise, or scheme for the distribution of money, or of any real or personal property by lot, chance, or drawing of any kind, or...
Страница 36 - They extend from the horse with its rider to the stage-coach, from the sailing vessel to the steamboat, from the coach and the steamboat to the railroad, and from the railroad to the telegraph, as these new agencies are successively brought into use to meet the demands of increasing population and wealth. They were intended for the government of the business to which they relate, at all times and under all circumstances.
Страница 668 - ... or the name of the firm or Company who are the remitters or payees, together with the addresses of each.
Страница 670 - Administration in each country shall be authorized to adopt any additional rules, (if not repugnant to the foregoing,) for the greater security against fraud, or, for the better working of the system generally. All such additional rules, however, must be promptly communicated to the Post Office of the other country.
Страница 670 - If pending the settlement of an account, one of the two Postal Administrations shall ascertain that it owes the other a balance exceeding...
Страница 651 - IN WITNESS WHEREOF the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the present convention and have affixed thereto their seals. DONE in duplicate at Washington the ^ day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.