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On the outlying routes, where the mails are exposed to the weather, waterproof canvass bags should be used.

ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW ROUTES OR ALTERATIONS IN ROUTES ALREADY IN OPERATION.

Advantages to be obtained;

Additional cost per annum to be incurred;

Present revenue of the offices to be served;

Increased revenue which it is estimated would result from proposed additional mail facilities;

Give tables also of the present and proposed routes, showing offices served and intermediate distances. State, also, dates on which contracts which it is proposed to discontinue would terminate provided previous notice were not given by the Postmaster General.

CONTRACTS FOR MAIL SERVICES.

These reports should be accompanied by the usual notices of advertisement inviting tenders.

The advertisements should be dated a fortnight later than the date of their transmission to the Department.

Against each contract should be entered the number and date of the letter under authority of which the contract was made.

Against the entry of each new contract it should be clearly stated whether the service is entirely a new one. If not, the names of the contract or contracts which it supersedes should be given.

BONDS.

Postmasters. Assistant Postmasters in City Offices. Money Order Savings Bank and Registration Clerks in City Offices. Railway Mail Clerks. Letter Carriers.

From Assistant Postmaster in City Office, is from ,000 to ,600 From Money Order and Registration Clerks in City Office, from 600 " 1,000 according to amount of responsibility. From Railway Mail Clerks 800 " Letter Carriers 400

RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE.

CIRCULATION OR DISTRIBUTION.

TRAVELLING.

A Sign? A Letter-box? Pigeon-holes for letters and papers for delivery and despatch? Other necessary fittings? Forms and other necessary equipments?

CASES OF LOSS OR ABSTRACTION.

This must be left to the judgment of the Inspector. The following course, however, may be taken in ordinary cases.

This will sometimes enable you to determine at which office the abstraction was affected.

The proof consisted of the impressions of the postmarks placed on the letter at the office at which posted having gone through the envelope on to the papers enclosed.

It is, of course, important to ascertain whether the stamps were placed on the letter at the time it was posted.

ARREARS AND OUTSTANDING ACCOUNTS.

Application should first be made to the Postmaster or ex-Postmaster to send them in.

If he fails to do this within a reasonable time--say two weeks--a letter should be addressed to each of his sureties. If this produces no good result, a second application should be made to the sureties informing them that if by a certain day--say in two weeks time--the accounts and arrears are not forwarded, the matter will be reported to the Postmaster General, who will probably order legal proceedings to be taken against them.

CONCLUSION.

It is very important that each Inspector should make himself thoroughly conversant with the foregoing regulations, and it will be the duty of the Chief Inspector, when visiting the several Divisions, to ascertain whether these Regulations are properly observed and to report to the Postmaster General such deviations as may come under his notice.

OTTAWA, 1st August, 1879.

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