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sir-Your letter of the 7th inst, is received. The law docs not authorize the refundIng of postage on account of overcharge, unless tue eiteris opened in presence of che pssmas.er or ms Sisrk. I Tpa say this is different from what your post-othce mas former iy done: but n is not different from what other oices have done, nor from what the law requires. n mas lately been discovered that the post office at New York has been error, and the error IS oroered 10 be correcieds tt eQn1s1 -

 Sometimes person may loae by letter being over charged and sometimes the department may lose oy its being underchafged. If letter contains three bank no,es is qnadFuple hntf rated single or dou- be the person does not send the post office to pay the deficiency; but if rated double when tt ,S singe, he applies tor repayment of the excess. The law provides. that the rais marked on letter shall De the gidence ofcoect postage, unless the person recev- iaair 1akes exception; in that case, he will open 10 presence of the Postmsser or hs clerk and q over cseased Ench is the law, and such is the custom iT other places, and always shead haye been the custom ;r .New- York. An executive department has nc r;eht to vary fhe practice from hel law. whether it

 right or wrong. am respectfully your sb't sery't'

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