n such matters is
very objectionable.

3. All printing and binding required both by your own office and city
or other offices must be done on requisition to the Department, at
Ottawa.

4. Further, all stationery required, both by your own and city or
other offices, must be obtained by requisition in the proper form to
the Postmaster General. The number of the articles, as shown by the
official catalogue, being in all cases given.

IV.

RETURNS TO BE MADE TO THE DEPARTMENT AT OTTAWA.

1. _The Returns required_ by the Department at Ottawa should be
rendered punctually, as follows:

2. _Pay Lists for salaries_ to be forwarded so as to reach Ottawa not
later than the 23rd of each month. Should any fines be imposed or
stoppage of pay take place after the list has been despatched, the
fact should be communicated to the Postmaster General by telegraph.

In every case in which a new name appears on the pay list, or in which
there has been any fine or alteration of salary, the number and date
of the letter conveying the Postmaster General's authority therefor
must be written at the foot of the list.

3. _Pay Lists for Mail Services_, accompanied by the necessary
receipts or vouchers, to be transmitted on the last day of each
quarter, and to include all services performed during the quarter. If
the exact amount due to a contractor cannot be ascertained, the
service should be entered in the proper place, and the figures left
blank. The voucher in such case should be transmitted to the
Accountant as soon afterwards as possible. The figure columns in the
pay list should always be added up, and the total entered in ink. The
distances entered in the vouchers or receipts for Mail Services
should, agree with the distances entered in the variation returns.

4. _Return of Variations in the Mail Service expenditure_ to be
transmitted on the last day of each month, and to include all new
contracts and Mail Services, all renewals and transfers of existing
contracts, and all variations in Mail Service taking effect during the
month.

As cheques are issued to the contractors on the entries in the pay
lists and variation returns, it is necessary that they should be
correct in every particular, and that both names and figures should be
distinctly written.

5. _Return of new Post routes established and of Post routes
discontinued_ to be transmitted not later than the seventh day of
each month, and to include all such chang