Chapter XI: Bonds

1. Bonds must be taken from the following Officers:--

Postmasters.
Assistant Postmasters in City Offices.
Money Order Savings Bank and Registration Clerks in City Offices.
Railway Mail Clerks.
Letter Carriers.

2. The amount of the penalty of the bond required from Postmasters must be governed by the revenue collected, and the amount of business transacted. Care must be taken to use the Money Order form of bond for all Postmasters transacting Money Order and Savings Bank business. A Postmaster's bond should in all cases be completed before he is placed in charge of the office.

3. The amount of the penalty of the bond required

From Assistant Postmaster in City Office, is
from $1,000 to $1,600
From Money Order and Registration Clerks in
City Office, from 600 " 1,000
according to amount of responsibility.
From Railway Mail Clerks 800
" Letter Carriers 400

4. Bonds can be accepted either from the Canada Guarantee Company, or from two private parties whose sufficiency for the penalty must be certified by a magistrate. Bonds from the Guarantee Company are preferred.

5. Great care must be taken in the filling up and execution of the bonds. The names in the body of the bond must be spelt in the same way as they are in the signature. In the description of the residence of the parties, the name of the judicial, and not the name of the electoral, county must be inserted.

6. All erasures and corrections should be avoided, but, if made, should be initialed by the parties whose signatures as witnesses are attached to the bond.

7. The bond should be sealed.

8. The signature of the principal and the sureties should in every case be witnessed by two persons. The witnesses should always sign their names. Marks as substitutes for signatures of witnesses cannot be accepted.

9. If, as sometimes, it happens through the removal of an office, the township mentioned in the new bond as the residence of the Postmaster differs from the township in which the office is situated, as shown in the Postal Guide, a special report of the fact should be made to the Postmaster General.