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POST-OFFICE AFFAIRS. 147
The interior postal service was for a long time
utterly inadequate to the demand, owing to the small
pecuniary allowance to meet the ruling high prices. 39
Postmasters could afford neither to engage the needful
assistance nor to decline the outside emoluments
that were within the reach of their office. 40 Routes
were accordingly opened slowly, and as late as June
1851 there were only 34 offices in the state, even populous
central counties having to be content with one
weekly mail. 41 But the attempt to limit local ex-
amonnted in 1882-3 to $12,500. Id. The railway into Mexico has affected
the steamer maila in that direction.
99 Agent Allen undertook in 1849 to appease public clamor by extending
routes, mit was rebuked with an order to limit expenditure to net revenue.
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