. Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments .. . ter all this tedious and laborious work is done, the chief clerkgoes over the route-books and designates the lowest bidder for eachroute. An acceptance is then prepared by the Postmaster-Generaland sent to each lowest bidder, who executes a contract according tothe terms of the bid. The contracts are made in duplicate, and whenreceived, one is retained by the Postmaster-General,
. Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments .. . ter all this tedious and laborious work is done, the chief clerkgoes over the route-books and designates the lowest bidder for eachroute. An acceptance is then prepared by the Postmaster-Generaland sent to each lowest bidder, who executes a contract according tothe terms of the bid. The contracts are made in duplicate, and whenreceived, one is retained by the Postmaster-General, and the other issent to the Sixth Auditor of the Treasury, who has charge of the dis-bursements of the Post-Office Department. The railroad mail routes number nearly 1,400, and the yearly ex-penditure for the transportation of mails over them is $13,000, are more than one hundred steamboat routes, which cost $ The mail messenger service on the railroads is performed at acost of $800,000, and the railroad postal clerks are paid $3,700, present the railroad mail service is 110,208 miles in length. The third assistant postmaster-general has charge of the follow- THE DEAD-LETTER OFFICE. 209. THE GENERAL POST-OFFICE. ing divisions: The division of finance, the division of postage-stamps and stamped envelopes, the division of registered letters,and the division of dead letters. It is the duty of this official topay the mail contractors, to c-oUect the postal revenues, to issue post-age-stamps, stamped envelopes, and postal cards to the post-offices,and to attend to the business connected with registered letters anddead letters. The Dead-Letter Office occupies a spacious apartment in the FStreet portion of the department building, and can be inspected byvisitors. The apartment has a wide galler}-, and is well lighted by aglass roof and high, broad windows. The office has a chief with asalary of $2,250, and a force of one hundred male and female clerks. About 1
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