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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 12 STAT. · April 6, 1860 · Chapter XIII

Chapter XIII. *in Relation to the Return of undelivered Letters in the Post-Office.* April 6, 1860. 1803, ch. 71, § 28. *Post,* p. 706. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That when any person shall Certain uncalled for letters may be r

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Chap. XIII.— An Act *in Relation to the Return of undelivered Letters in the Post-Office.* April 6, 1860. 1803, ch. 71, § 28. *Post,* p. 706. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That when any person shall Certain uncalled for letters may be returned to their writers.indorse on any letter his or her name and place of residence, as writer thereof, the same after remaining uncalled for at the office, to which it is directed thirty days, or the time the writer may direct, shall Such letters not to be advertised, nor treated as dead letters until, &c.be returned by mail to said writer; and no such letters shall be advertised, nor shall the same be treated as dead letters, until so returned to the post-office of the writer and there remain[ing] uncalled for one quarter.
Approved, April 6, 1860.
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