3. do. Applications for alterations in Mail Routes.
4. do. Railway Mail Service.
5. do. Advertisement of Mail Contracts.
6. do. Execution of Mail Contracts.
7. do. Arrears due from Postmasters and ex-Postmasters.
8. do. Cases of supposed loss of or abstractions from
Letters.
9. do. Distribution.
10. do. Matters requiring personal enquiry.
11. Letters from Secretary awaiting answers.
12. do. Postmasters, Contractors and the Public awaiting
answers.

_For Papers finally disposed of._

1. Mail Contracts in force alphabetically arranged.
2. Mails Contracts terminated alphabetically arranged.
3. Postmasters' Bonds in force do.
4. do. terminated do.
5. Letters from Secretary arranged according to number.
6. Letters from Post Office Department not numbered.
7. do. Post Office Inspectors.
8. do. Postmasters, Contractors and the Public
alphabetically arranged, there being a separate
pigeon-hole for each letter of the alphabet.
9. Papers in reference to cases of actual losses of or
abstractions from letters.
10. do. Cases of supposed losses of or abstractions,
in which the enquiry instituted shows that
no actual loss or abstraction occurred.
11. do. Accounts included in monthly requisitions.
12. do. Arrears due from Postmasters.
13. do. Railway Mail Service.
14. do. Distribution.

III.

BOOKS AND RECORDS.

1. The books to be kept are as follows:--

1. Book for press copies of reports to the Postmaster General.

2. Book for press copies of such other letters, &c., as it may be
necessary to copy.

3. Record of letters and references from the Secretary.

4. Record of applications for lost letters, &c.

5. Record of actual losses of letters and abstractions of articles
of value from letters.

6. Journal of travel and proceedings (forms bound up.)

7. Conduct Return Book (press copies).

8. Order Book for instructions to Railway Mail Clerks, in which
should be entered the address of each clerk.

9. Book for recording number of miles travelled by Railway Mail
Clerks.

10. Record of errors made by Railway Mail Clerks, as shown by
labels on p