Posr OFFICE DEPARTMENT, !,


Contract Office, June 3, l345. {
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.UOO~s 1900 - AOAOs 5@
SlR:-I have the honor to inform you,
i'm reply to your letter of the 2lst ult.,
that the advertisement Of the new routes,
established during the late session Of Con-
'gress is in course of preparation, and will
shortly be published. 1t will appear in
|one or more newspapers in this city; and
the Iowa routes will be advertised in one
|or more Of the papers printed in that Ter
'ritory. The service will be put in opera
tion as soon as practicable. The Depart
'ment has been necessarily occupied BY the
business Of re-adjusting and re-letting the
mail contracts in New York and New
England, and by the great mass Of busi-
ness flung upon it by the new act of Con-
gress changing the rates Of postage, es-
tabishing foreign mails, and the new state
Of things arising in the other branches Of
the Department upon the commencement
of new administration Of the Govern
ment.


! am, very respectfully,


your obed't servant,


S. R. HOBBIE,


LIST. .Asst. p. M GenL.
Hon. A. G. DoDcE, Burlington, Iowa.