Chapter 346. authorizing the employment of mail-messengers in the postal service
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CHAP. 346.— An Act authorizing the employment of mail-messengers in the postal service.Mar. 3, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Mail messengers.Employment authorized in certain cases. That the Postmaster-General be and he is hereby, authorized to employ such mail-messenger service as may be necessary for the carriage of the mails in connection with railroad and steamboat service, transfer service between depots, over bridges or ferries, between post-offices, post-offices and branch offices or stations, in cases where by the laws and regulations of the Post-Office.
Department, railroad companies, steamboat companies, and the masters of vessels are not required to deliver into and take from the post-offices the mails carried on their lines or vessels. Approved, March 3, 1887.