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Tum: x1.v1.-—TdE POSTAL SERVICE. Ch. 6-7. 763 Post-Oilicc Department or its revenue shall not be liable for the loss of § June 1872. in any m8il—lll8tt»9l' on account of its having been registered. £*°b‘*§b52“= 12** "- Sec. 3927. Maihmattcr shall be registered only on the application of Registered mutthe pudyosting the same, and the fee therefor shall not exceed twenty t" ““d f"°"· cents in dition to the regular stage, to bc, in all cases, prepaid; and 1bid.,s. 127. all such foes shall be accountcdpgor m such manner as the Postmaster- General shall direct. But letters upon the oihciul business of the Post- Oiice Department which require registcring shall be registered free of charge, and pass through the mails free of charge. Sec. 3928. A receipt shall be taken u on the delivery of an regis- Recei pt fpr detcrcd majbmuttcr, showing to whom andpwhcn the same was dehvered, 1W" Y " ’°3*”"'°d which shall be returned to the sender, and be received in the courts as Ylutfhri primwfacic evidence of such delivery. Ibid.,#.128. Sec. 3929. The Postmaster-General may, .upon evidence satisfactory Registered 19t- to him that any person is anga ed in conducting any fraudulent lottery, 2** *° l°:;j""°*’¤ gift—cutcrprise, or scheme for the distribution of money or of any real or m°;;m’{]°’ W personal property, by lot, chance, or drawing of any kind, or in conduct- — T-! » --»— —- ing any other scheme or device for obtaining money through the mails by 32¥”d·· ’“· 3°°· P· means of false 01* fraudulent prctenscs, representations, or romisvs, in- ` struct postmasters at any post-ofiiccs at which registered Hetters arrive directed to any such person, to return all such registered letters to the postmasters at the othecs at which `they were originally mailed, with the word "fmudulent" plainly written or stamped upon the outside of such letters; and all such letters so returned to such postmastcrs shall be by them returned to the writers thereof, under such regulations as the Postmust.c1·—Gencrs.l may prescribe. But nothing contained in this Title shall bc so construed as to authorize nn v postmaster or other person to open any letter not addressed to himsclft CHAPTER SEVEN. UHCLAIIID, DEAD, AND REQUEST LETTERS. Hcc, · Sec. 3930. Advertising letters. 3936. Return of umlelivered letters. 3931. Advertisin foreign letters. 3937. Vnpaid letters to dcad~letter of- 3932. Registry 0% letters mnmining frac-- five. tional currency. 3938. Proceeds of valuable dead letters. 3933. Posting lists of advertised letters.3939. Request letters in be returned. 3934. Pay for advertising letters. 3940. Forwarding letters from one office 3935. Charge on advertised letters. to another. Sec. 3930. 'I`hc Postmaster-Gcneml may direct the publication of the Advertising let- Iist of nomdelivcrcd lcttcrsut. any st»0fH0c by written list posted in some *€"¤· public place, or, when he shall dl;-nn] it for the public interest, he may g Jung, 1;-gg, c_ direct the publication of such list in the daily or weekly newspaper regu— 335, s. 188, v. 17, p. Iarly published within the post-ofiicc delivery which has the largest cir- 307- culution within such delivery; und where no daily a r is published within the post—0iHcc delivery., such list may be pubihshhd in the daily newapa. pcr of any adjoinin delivery havin the largest circulation within the dchvery of the post-oécc publishing tim list; and in casa of dispute us to the circulation of competing newspapers, the postmaster shall receive evidence und decide upon the fact. Such list shall be published ms frequvutly as the P0stma.ster—General may deem proper, but not oftvncr than once u week. Sm. 3931. The list of non-delivered letters addressed to fm·<—ign-born Advertising top persons may be pdblislxcd in u newspaper printed in the language most eign }§f*f>¤‘§- used by them, which shall be selected in the manner prescribed in theIbid_’g ]89 prcccahng section. Sm. 3932. Under such regulations as the POStm&StCl‘-GCl\Bl`Rl may Registry aff 1ctprescribe, all postnmst,ers nrc authorized to register in the mannvr pre- ;°’*f .*'*";*“ '“*{*8 scribed by law, but without payment. of smv 1·0gi>¤tmtion fvc, ull' letters c';'°t'°"” °""°“' containing fractional or other (‘\1l'l'f‘Ilt‘)` of the United States, which shall ~`