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 THIRTY—SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 113. 1852. 141 or on or over any post-route of the United States, and to convey such letters to the nearest post-office; or may, if the Postmaster-General and the Secretary of the Treasury shall so direct, detain the said letters, or any part thereof, until two months after the trial and final determination of all suits and proceedings which may at any time, within six months after such seizure, be brought against any person for sending, or carrying, or transporting any such letters contrary to any provisions of any act of Congress; and one half of any penalties that may be recovered for the To whose ug, illegal sending, carrying, or transportation of any such letters shall be 5*195 m *0 be paid to the officer so seizing, and the other half to the use of the Post- P°`d' Otiice Department; and every package or parcel so seized, in which any letter shall be concealed, shall be forfeited to the United States, and the Folfcjtum Oy same proceedings maybe had to enforce such forfeiture as are authorized letters, &9·,i11e- in respect to good[s], wares, and merchandise forfeited by reason of any guy °‘“`"°d‘ violation of the revenue laws of the United States; and all laws for the Mode of en— benefit and protection of officers of the customs seizing goods, wares, 0;- £¤r¤i¤gg such f¤r— merchandise, for a. violation of any revenue law of the United States, mm°` shall apply to the officers and agents making seizures by virtue of mgggzgiglaaf t1'1iS RC!}. i i . _ - Sec. 6. And be étfurthar enacted, That the POStm3St8T—G8D€T2l1 may, Hissugggauqu from time to time, by and with the advice and consent of the President, of mails over the make any arrangements which may be deemed just and expedient for °§;'Q,;°jySp§£e;htg allowing the mails of Canada, or of any other province, state, or country otheig countries, adjoining the United States, to be carried or transported at the expense P’°““°°s· &°· of the province, state, or country to which such mails belong, oveiyany part or portion of the territory of the United States, fro one point in the province, state, or country to which such mails belong; to any other point in the same, upon obtaining the same privileges for the transportation of the mails of the United States through the province, state, or country to which such privilege shall be granted: Provided, That such P¤‘<>vi¤¤- privileges may at any time be annulled by the President of the United States, or by joint resolution of the two Houses of Congress, from and after the expiration of one month next succeeding the day on which the notice of the act of the President or of the joint resolution of the two Houses shall be given to the chief executive officer, or head of the Post- Ofiice Department, of the province, state, or country whose privilege is to be thereby annulled. Sec. 7. And be it further enactevl That every mail of any province, Offences ipstate, or country, having the privilege authorized to be granted in and ggiiglgg 0T33N! by the next preceding section, shall, while in the territories of the P ' United States, be deemed and taken to be a. mail of the United States, so far as to make any violation thereof, or any depreda.tion_there0n, or any act or offence in respect thereto, or any part thereof, which would be punishable under the existing laws of the United States, in case the same had been a mail or part of a mail of the United States, an offence of the same grade and punishable in the same mamxer and to the same extent as though the said mails were those of the United States ; and in any indictment for for such act or ofence, the said mails or any part thereof may be alleged to be, and on the trial of any such indictment, they shall be deemed and held to be mails or parts of mails of the United States. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the Postmaster-General Smmpcd mm shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to provide and furnish to all post» envelopes w be masters and other persons applying and paying therefor, suitable P"°v'd"d‘ letter envelopes, with such water-marks or other guards against counterfeits as he may deem expedient, and with one or more suitable postagestamps, with such device and of such denominations and value as he may direct, printed or impressed thereon; which envelopes shall be sold at the cost of procuring and furnishing the same, as near as may be, with