67 - New Jersey Postal History Society

REGISTERED STAMP BILL
Joe McDonough
Sir;
POSTAGE STAMP AGENCY , (/
New York,
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I send herewith, by order of tlw Third, .-Issistant .IWtmaster General. a parcel of posta
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stamps amounting to o 0... •e•ei•iiid it yOli are requi•rd to count them
immediately in presence of a disinter:wird witness, date, •idn and transmit the (177PCXed
receipt to the Third Assistant Postmaster General, at II i(s/. iiiritom I). C. In ease of any
deficiency, your OU•71- (11P(la•it (Ind that of the witness.statind the amount 1' such deficiency,
will be necessary in order to obtain credit Inr the amount. Such delicienry must be
reported at once.
If any portion Of a parcel of postade stamps be (lama 'ed, the .Postmaster will
sign, the receipt for the whole 1171101(7it of the parcel, and harin s Written across the face of
the receipt the number and amount of Stan, pS unlit fire 7tSr. lie will return the damaged
stamps, together with the receipt, to the Third Assistant Postmaster General, who will sire credit
for the amount returned. But if the dam( de be total, the entire parcel should be Pet11,772,ed
with the receipt not SiSillett, ill, order that If , pa•eT1 y Le seat pitt•e of them. The
paCkage MUSt be registered, and the lbstmaster 77111st also be able to pro•e the act of mailinsi
by a disinterested witness. Postmasters failing to rediste• such packa.0:es will not receive
credit for the amount of stamps or damped envelopes, alleged to have been returned, in
ease the sante fail to reach the department.
✓ 11 applications for postage stamps or stamped en•elopes must be addressed to the Third
Assistant Postmaster General, Washington, D. 4J., and the annexed receipt returned to him. In no ease
to the Agency at New York.
WY- POSTMASTERS ARE EXPECTED in each case, to order what, upon a careful estimate,
may be deemed a sufficient supply of the various kinds of stainps for three months; and
they are required in every instance, to use the form of order which will be furnished by the
Department., which must be signed by the Postmaster himself, unless he be necessarily absent or sick,
when it may be signed by the Assistant or Deputy, he placing the Postmaster's name above his own.
Postmasters will retain the above instructions for reference, and return the lower receipt to the
3d Assistant P. M. General, Washington,• D. C.
Very Respectfully,
DANIEL M. BOY!), Agent.
NJ PH 19
March 1986