Story of Our Post Office: The Greatest Government Department in All Its PhasesA. M. Thayer & Company, 1892 - 1034 sider Postgeschichte ; Gesetzgebung ; Personal ; Postbetrieb ; Postbeförderung ; Bahnpost ; Internationale Beziehungen Post ; Briefmarken ; Philatelie ; Amerika ; USA. |
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Side 32
... paid the contractor a few hun- dred dollars could be made to yield him many thousands . Hun- dreds of thousands of dollars were thus paid out of the Treasury . This lead to charges of corruption , investigation , and criminal pro ...
... paid the contractor a few hun- dred dollars could be made to yield him many thousands . Hun- dreds of thousands of dollars were thus paid out of the Treasury . This lead to charges of corruption , investigation , and criminal pro ...
Side 33
... paid for carrying the mails on the basis of the weights carried , and fixed a scale of maximum rates that could be allowed . These rates were reduced ten per cent . in 1876 and five per cent . additional in 1878. Railroad companies ...
... paid for carrying the mails on the basis of the weights carried , and fixed a scale of maximum rates that could be allowed . These rates were reduced ten per cent . in 1876 and five per cent . additional in 1878. Railroad companies ...
Side 68
... paid for at the rate of $ 40 per mile per annum , and a sixty foot car at the rate of $ 50 per mile per annum . These cars are built in accordance with plans and specifica- tions furnished by the Post Office Department , and are ...
... paid for at the rate of $ 40 per mile per annum , and a sixty foot car at the rate of $ 50 per mile per annum . These cars are built in accordance with plans and specifica- tions furnished by the Post Office Department , and are ...
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... paid every permanent clerk employed in the service , and one per cent . of the annuity paid those placed upon the superannuated list . This deduction would be slight for each individual , but would in the aggregate amount to about ...
... paid every permanent clerk employed in the service , and one per cent . of the annuity paid those placed upon the superannuated list . This deduction would be slight for each individual , but would in the aggregate amount to about ...
Side 93
... paid for at the legal rates already explained . This , it will be noticed , produces quite a different result from the average weight when starting from the principal terminal which is what an ordinary observer is apt to notice . The ...
... paid for at the legal rates already explained . This , it will be noticed , produces quite a different result from the average weight when starting from the principal terminal which is what an ordinary observer is apt to notice . The ...
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Side 1000 - 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.
Side 634 - All matter otherwise mailable by law, upon the envelope or outside cover or wrapper of which, or any postal card upon which, any delineations, epithets, terms, or language of an indecent, lewd, lascivious, obscene, libelous, scurrilous, defamatory, or threatening character, or calculated by the terms or manner or style of display and obviously intended to reflect injuriously upon the character or conduct of another...
Side 412 - It must be originated and published for the dissemination of information of a public character, or devoted to literature, the sciences, arts, or some special industry...
Side 534 - ... of any kind offering prizes dependent in whole or in part upon lot or chance, or containing any list of...
Side 584 - Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, or to sell, dispose of, loan, exchange, alter, give away, distribute, supply, or furnish or procure for unlawful use any counterfeit or spurious coin...
Side 660 - I've labored long and hard for bread For honor and for riches, But on my corns too long you've tred You fine-haired sons of bitches. Let come what will, I'll try it on, My condition can't be worse, And if there's money in that box, 'Tis munny in my purse. —Black Bart, the Po8.
Side 534 - ... for the purchase of any ticket, tickets, or part thereof, or of any share or any chance in any such lottery or gift enterprise, shall be carried in the mail or delivered at or through any...
Side 584 - ... or by dealing or pretending to deal in what is commonly called "green articles," "green coin," "green goods," "bills," "paper goods,
Side 637 - shall be held to mean all bonds, certificates of indebtedness, national bank currency, coupons, United States notes, Treasury notes, gold certificates, silver certificates, fractional notes, certificates of deposit, bills, checks, or drafts for money, drawn by or upon authorized officers of the United States...
Side 146 - An Act to provide for ocean mail service between the United States and foreign ports, and to promote commerce,' so long as such vessels shall in all respects comply with the provisions and requirements of said Act.