Show NEW rostal pontal regulations k SERIES serles of new ew regulations respecting the registration of letters went into operation on the firstos nir fir october last nigh will insure greater safety in F the bf such letters it is conspicuously declared tobe tho the duty of the postmasters to encourage the registration of letters 11 one of the most import important tint rint sections odthe new regulations re reads ads as follow follows ss 1 I I 1 i 1 1 4 1 I 1 11 postmasters ua offices eps egg supplied hoy y or in part tay route agents or I 1 postal atal cl clerks k aul wul deliver nil all registered matt manner matter i TO ogo r beuch h 1 routes the fhe bands lands odthe agents or 4 clerks 7 s and iund obtain instead iol lol 01 sending lending the samo same in brass loek lock pouches I 1 as heretofore registered matter mattor to go ove ever r other otlien routes i c e routes on which there aro no route bouto gg agents ants or postal clerks is to bd bo sent as form vorm erly with tho exception that iho postmaster at ar tho ta mailing office will amx to tho registered package envelope a blank biank receipt to be signed I 1 I 1 ned and returned to ill lil chib b the postmaster at tho office where the tho pou pouch containing the tho game dame same samo Is next opened such sueh postmaster will sign and kle return turn t the tho ho receipt to the postmaster from whom he received it and forward the package ae a e with another blank biank receipt nt at mod Wod Jobo bo signed and rett leturner itne irne 4 likewise to adin him this wllis plan af pf receipting is to be continued until the registered package pac pae kago shall hayg hayo have havo reached the tho office of nimia ilna lina destination ys 11 1 I 1 by t his this section it will be seen that the registered matter ta to go over routes where there are HO route agents or postal cler eler clerks all the routes in this territory are in that condition there being no ral rai railroads here bero le H to be accompanied by py I 1 1 receipts of registered packaged ed 10 in such a way as to form aserlee a series serles br or chain receipts off ofa which will eln ein embrace brace the acknowledgment know of every postmaster at whose office the pouch containing the registered matter is opened by this thih system a ra missing registered letter can bej boj traced with wi th almost unerring certainty to the office which may be delinquent for every postmaster has the receipt of the next postmaster through whose hands the registered letter package passes ap in another section of the tile new regulations the fee for register registering ing ipg letters ad dressed to any part of states is reduced to fifteen cents on the fist first of january next the present charge is twenty cents intermediate rates of com corn mission charged for money orders have also been introduced under the old rates any sum over 20 and not exceed exceeds ing lug 50 was charged the same co commission so 25 cent but now there is i a rate rat e for sums between 20 and 30 and another for those from 30 to 40 which is more convenient and inexpensive than the old system this money order system J As becoming very popular among our citizens and when our gentlemanly postmaster A wh IM street esq I 1 told us the amounts sent through tha that thai agoni agency we were surprised another point in connection with this subject may be useful to the postmasters ni throughout the territory to know we frequently receive iet let lettera letters tera from small post offices with the name mame of the office whitten written oh the f stamped ih ill the united statts lf 11 mail nafi 31 ail all we sed see it stated over the signature of A N zevely third assistant postmaster sten general that the postmaster veneral general lias has modified the existing regulation so as to allow circular postmarking post os marking marring stamps s to ALL ali post rost ost offices an and Post rost postmasters postmaster maste not tano tino now w furnished shadid should at anbe apply for such sueh stamps to ana first assistant postmaster generale general by th the e sim sam ame paper we notice that ja A ew Postal convention has been signed between great britain and the united S states tate 1 s it was signed the ft uit hult at wa washington on behalf of bf the united states by postmaster general randall ran Ean dall in france the business of registering letters Js is manag managed ed by the post office department deportment ina in a very systematic manner letters deposited in a post office in that country f bearin benning bearing amore more than one on wax seal seni rare considered as 09 containing 9 article artlas value vim and are bro registered the charge of registration will be collected person to whom it is addressed the mhd pres presence I 1 ence enco of the postmaster or some other postal agent and it is found to contain no it ift is forbidden under the penalty of a fine to deposit a letter containing coin in a post office without registration there is another class of registered letters lotters the sender of ribes up upon the envelope the exact exa ct val vai value N bf of the contents the sender pays in addi addition tio tig to T registration e fee a pr premium a of two to ints cents for each twenty dollars or fraction tb thereof in n a f be fo li uch alette atte t er erlo 9 the h e entire u amount taut Is upla e good goduto to t li e dw ner lin fb gip JP r T tilis tills is a senn sensible at e ar a g and in ihil this leah 0 tr govern gove gave luent mencas as well weil as that of great britain would find it to the advantage of their people lu to imitate tho ili the 11 9 example camp I 1 e of france 1 1 I G C i we ve are indebted ao ou our r postmaster ar A r W street esq fa for the h above ov in forma tion tiou 81 1 8 81 A 5 1 17 1 1 1 1 I 1 ta A |