Chapter II: Appendix: A

EXTRACTS FROM THE POSTAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS.

"Railroad companies, at stations where transfer clerks are employed, will provide suitable and sufficient rooms for handling and storing the mails, and without specific charge therefor. These rooms will be lighted, heated, furnished, supplied with ice water, and kept in order by the railroad company." Section 1186, second paragraph.

"The specific requirements of the service as to ... space required ... at stations, fixtures, furniture, etc., will at all times be determined by the Post Office Department and made known through the General Superintendent of Railway Mail Service." Section 1186, third paragraph.

"Railroad companies will require their employees who handle the mails to keep a record of all pouches due to be received or dispatched by them, and to check the pouches at the time they are received or dispatched, except that no record need be kept of a single pouch from a train or station to the post office or from the post office to a train or station which, in regular course, is the only pouch in the custody of the company's employees at that point while it is being handled by them. This is not to be construed as relieving railroad companies from having employees on trains keep and properly check a record of all closed pouches handled by them, without exception."