Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1858 — POSTOFFICE LAW. [ARTICLE]

POSTOFFICE LAW.

We publish the following at the of the postmaster at this place: Vn page 69, section 182, can be seen the law? for carrying letters outside of the mail by mail carriers. It is the duty of a mail carrier to receive and convey a letter, and the money or a stamp of suitable denomination for its postage, when tendered, if delivered to him-more than a inile from) a postoffice, and to hand it, with the money or stamp, into the first postoffice at which he arrives. A penalty of SSO attaches a failure to do so. But a mail carrier lias no right, within a mile, and within the delivery of one office, to receive and convey a letter to be mailed at the next office on a route; nor, unless it be in a proper stamped envelop, has lie any right to mail such letter at any other office than the first one he reaches on his route after having received it'. Sec. 187. Mail carriers, contractors or stage-drivers cannot lawfully carry out of the mail any letter or packet unless the same has been prepaid by a stamped envelop of suitable denomination; but are permitted so to carry newspapers to subscribers between postoffices; alsoy'niewspapers, pamphlets, magazines and periodicals, when not marked or directed, nor intended for immediate distribution to subscribers, but intended for sale as merchandise, and sent to some bona fide dealer or agent for the sale thereof.