ility.
From Railway Mail Clerks 800
" Letter Carriers 400

4. Bonds can be accepted either from the Canada Guarantee Company, or
from two private parties whose sufficiency for the penalty must be
certified by a magistrate. Bonds from the Guarantee Company are
preferred.

5. Great care must be taken in the filling up and execution of the
bonds. The names in the body of the bond must be spelt in the same way
as they are in the signature. In the description of the residence of
the parties, the name of the judicial, and not the name of the
electoral, county must be inserted.

6. All erasures and corrections should be avoided, but, if made,
should be initialed by the parties whose signatures as witnesses are
attached to the bond.

7. The bond should be sealed.

8. The signature of the principal and the sureties should in every
case be witnessed by two persons. The witnesses should always sign
their names. Marks as substitutes for signatures of witnesses cannot
be accepted.

9. If, as sometimes, it happens through the removal of an office, the
township mentioned in the new bond as the residence of the Postmaster
differs from the township in which the office is situated, as shown in
the Postal Guide, a special report of the fact should be made to the
Postmaster General.

XII.

RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE.

1. This is a very important branch of the Postal Service, and will
require your constant supervision.

2. A Distribution Book should be supplied the Mail Clerks on each
road, which book should be corrected, at least, once in each month, or
oftener, should circumstances render it necessary.

3. Each Mail Clerk in your Division should be examined frequently with
the object of ascertaining if he has a proper knowledge of the
distribution and of the changes which have taken place in the
distribution on the railway on which he is employed.

4. On every railway route there should be a Time Bill which should
pass from one end of the line to the other, and in which should be
entered the particulars of all bags received and delivered by the Mail
Clerks.

5. You are not authorized to issue passes for travelling in a Postal
Car except to a Railway Mail Clerk actually going on duty.

6. No person, excepting Railway Mail Clerks on duty, the conductor of
the train (in the ordinary course of his duty), and the Post Office
Inspec