Chapter 41. to amend the proviso to be found in connection with the free-delivery service, page five hundred and sixty-nine, twenty-fourth volume, Statutes at Large
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CHAP. 41.— An Act to amend the proviso to be found in connection with the free-delivery service, page five hundred and sixty-nine, twenty-fourth volume, Statutes at Large.January 23, 1893. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Mail boxes in buildings.Vol. 24, p. 569. That the proviso in chapter three hundred and eighty-eight, act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, is amended to read as follows:
" “*Provided*, That no boxes for the collection of mail matter by carriers*Proviso*.Boxes for mail matter. shall be placed inside of any building except a public building, or a building which is freely open to the public during business hours, or a railroad station, and that the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to declare by official order that the chutes connectedChutes may be declared part of boxes. with mail boxes that are attached to any chute or device which may be approved by him are a part of said receiving boxes and under the exclusive care and custody of the Post-Office Department.
” " Approved, January 23, 1893.