Chapter XLVI. to prevent the inconvenient Accumulation in the Post-Office Department of Postmasters’ Quarterly Returns
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Chap. XLVI.— An Act to prevent the inconvenient Accumulation in the Post-Office Department of Postmasters’ Quarterly Returns.May 24, 1858. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Postmaster-GeneralPostmaster-General may dispose of quarterly returns when kept two years. may, from time to time, in his discretion, dispose of any quarterly returns of mails sent or received, preserving the accounts current, and all vouchers accompanying such accounts, and use such portions of the proceeds thereof as may be necessary to defray the cost of separating and disposing of the same: *Provided,* That the accounts shall be preserved entire, at least two years.
Approved, May 24, 1858.