letter carrie

LETTER CARRIER. A person employed to carry letters from the post office to 
the persons to whom they are addressed. 
     2. The act of congress of March 3, 1851, Statutes at Large of U. S. by 
Minot, 591, directs, Sec. 10, That it shall be in the power of the 
postmaster general, at all post offices where the postmaster's are appointed 
by the president of the United States, to establish post routes within the 
cities or towns, to provide for conveying letters to the post office by 
establishing suitable and convenient places of deposit, and by employing 
carriers to receive and deposit them in the post office; and at all such 
offices it shall be in his power to cause letters to be delivered by 
suitable carriers, to be appointed by him for that purpose, for which not 
exceeding one or two cents shall be charged, to be paid by the person 
receiving or sending the same, and all sums so received shall be paid into 
the post office department: Provided, The amount of compensation allowed by 
the postmaster general to carriers shall in no case exceed the amount paid 
into the treasury by each town or city under the provisions of this section. 
     3. It is further enacted by c. xxi. s. 2, That the postmaster general 
shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint letter carriers for the 
delivery of letters from any post office in California or Oregon, and to 
allow the letter carriers who may be appointed at any such post office to 
demand and receive such sum for all letters, newspapers, or other mailable 
matter delivered by them, as may be recommended by the postmaster for whose 
office such letter carrier may be appointed, not exceeding five cents for 
every letter, two cents for every newspaper, and two cents for every ounce 
of other mailable matter and the postmaster general shall be, and he is 
hereby, authorized to empower the special agents of the post office 
department in California and Oregon to appoint such letter carriers in their 
districts respectively, and to fix the rates of their compensation within 
the limits aforesaid, subject to, and until the final action of, the 
postmaster general thereon. And such appointments may be made, and rates of 
compensation modified from time to time, as may be deemed expedient and the 
rates of compensation may be fixed, and graduated in respect to the distance 
of the place of delivery from the post office for which such carriers are 
appointed, but the rate of compensation of any such letter carrier shall not 
be changed after his appointment, except by the order of the postmaster 
general; and such letter carriers shall be subject to the provisions of the 
forty-first section of the act entitled "An Act to change the organization 
of the post office, department, and to provide more effectually for the 
settlement of the accounts thereof," approved July second, eighteen hundred 
and thirty-six, except in cases otherwise provided for in this act.