COMMISSIONS.
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!. On the amount of letter postage, not sxcesds
iAg SlOo IN one year, 40 per cent. tR--s


=. On any sum between 500 and S4OO !, uny
year, 33I per cent.


3. On any sum between S4OO and 81, 400 in
year. 30 per cent.


4. On any sum over 81 400 in a year loI
per cent.


.. On the amount of letters and packets re.
celvcd for distribution at offices designated by
the Postmaster General for that purpose, per
cent.


w The term letter postage includes in eost-
ages received, except those which arise from
newspapers sent from the offices of the publishers
~ suuSC'!oCIH, "au PsHItEogs hIa,,a a1IIus
so that all prepaid postage upon transient pa
pers, hand bills, and circulars, printed or litho-
graphed, will 10 treated as letter postage in tho
settlement Of accounts Of postmasters.


u. On all sums arising from the postage on
newspapers, magazines, and pamphlets, SO per
cent.


7. As the accounts Of postmasters have 10 be
settled quarterly, and their commissions allowed
for that time, the postmasters will credit Them.
selves with 4o per cent. upon the first twenty
five do liars received in the quarter, and for nnv
sum bctw twenty five dollars and one hundred
dollars in the quarter, at the rate Of 33I Der
cent: and upon any sum between one hundred
and six hundred dollars received in the quarter.
30 per centum; and on any sum over six hundred
dollars received in the quarter, at the rate of l2I
per cent.


). The commission accounts will bc settled ,s
heretofore, except that tho annual compensation,
to which posImasters are limited, will be cor. suited
for the fiscal year commencing the lst July, and
ending the Both Of June, and in due proportion
for any period less than year.


.. No other allowance can be made TO roat.
masters except box-rcnts TO an amount not e,
ceedns $1,000 per .annum, and the surplus OF
such receipts may be apPled TO the expenses of
the Office, under the direction of the Postmaster
General. The emolument or box rent account
must be accounted for regularly l., the quarterly
returns, and for the same quarter as other pro-
ceeds of the office.


10. Postmasters IN their returns for the present
quarter, ending the 3lst of March, lS47, will nd.
Just their accounts according 10 the above allow
anCe.