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 256 'I`HIRTY—SECOND CONGRESS. Sxcss. II. Ch. 147. 1853. Postmaster-General. Each postmaster may be allowed two mills for delivering from his office to a subscriber each newspaper not chargeable Proviso. with postage: Provided, That the commissions and allowances hereby a°uthorized shall be subject to the provisions of the forty-first section of 1825, eh. 64. the act entitled "An act to reduce into one the several acts establishing and regulating the Post-Oflice Department," approved March the thi;-d, eighteen hundred and twenty-five. Penalty for for- See. 7. And be it further enacted, That any person who shall forge glrngéxg “;:‘“P’ or counterfeit any postage stamp, printed or impressed upon any letter Penvelope, authorized by the eighth section of an act entitled "An act to establish certain post roads, and for other purposes," approved August thirty-first, eighteen hundred and Bfhy-two, or by any other act ; or who shall counterfeit any die, plate, or engraving therefor; or who shall make or print, or knowingly use or sell, or have in his possession with intentto use or sell, any such false, forged, or counterfeited die, plate, engraving, or stamped envelope; or who shall make or knowingly use, or sell, or have in his possession with intent to use or sell, any paper bearing the water mark of such letter envelopes, or any fraudulent imitation thereof'; or who shall make or print, or authorize or procure to be made or printed, any stamped or printed letter envelope of the kind provided by the Postmaster-General under the authority aforesaid, without the especial direction of the Post-Oilice Department; or who, after such letter envelopes have been prepared or printed, shall, with intent to defraud the revenues of the Post-Office Department, deliver any such letter envelopes to any person or persons other than such as shall be authorized to receive the same by instrument of writing duly executed under the hand of the Postmaster-General and the seal of the Post-Ofllce Department, shall, on conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of felony, and be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding five years, or by both such ine and imprisonment. Sfnmpedenw Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of every gxg gké): gg: postmaster to cause to be defaced, in such manner as the Postmasterposited. General may direct, all letter envelopes with postage stamps thereon, which may be deposited in his office for conveyance in the mail ; and if any postmaster sending such envelopes in the mail shall omit to defaee the same, it shall be the duty of the postmaster to whose office such envelopes shall be sent for delivery, to deface them, and report the delinumPg¤;•·l*{¤§<g quent postmaster to the Postmaster-General. And if any person shall lopagtwiéa use or attempt to use, for the conveyance of any letter or other mailable matter or thing, over any post road of the United States, either by mail or otherwise, any such stamped letter envelope which has been before used for a like purpose, such person shall be liable to a. penalty of fifty dollars, to be recovered in the name of the United States, in any court having competent jurisdiction. APPROVED, March 3, 1853. Mlwll 3, NBB- CHAP. CXLVH. -— An Act to authorize the (,‘brreoliolr;'%l`e1;ronea11s Locations q}"M}'Zi£¢1V_1/ ··················· Bounty Land- Warrants by Actual Setders on the ic Lands in Certain Cases. Bc it enacted by the Smale and House of Representatives of the United Relocation of States of America in Congress assembled, That where an actual settler l‘22éEQ;`§r£;‘tg:tY on the public lands has sought or shall hereafter attempt to locate the land settled on and improved by him, with a military bounty land-warrant, and where, from any cause, an error has occurred in making such location, said settler shall be authorized to relinquish the land so erroneously located, and tolocate such warrant upon the land so settled upon and improved by him, if the same shall then be vacant, and if not, upon any other vacant land, on making proof of those {"acts to the satisfaction of the land officers, according to such rules and regulations us may be pre-