Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1902 — A Serious Offense. [ARTICLE]

A Serious Offense.

The post office department has called our attention to the following paragraph taken from the post office i appropriation bill in regard to tamper ing with rural delivery mail boxes, with the request that we publish the same: “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, ordestioy any mail matter deposited therein, or shall willfullyitake 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.”