tors should be allowed access to the Postal Cars whilst _en
route_ with the mails.

7. You should make yourself acquainted with the conduct of the Railway
Mail Clerks, when off, as well as when on duty, and report to the
Postmaster General any Railway Mail Clerk who, to your knowledge, is
at any time under the influence of liquor or otherwise misconducting
himself.

8. Compensation is made to Railway Companies for Mail Service
performed in a Postal Car, at the rate of 6 cents per mile actually
travelled by mixed trains and 8 cents per mile for quick passenger
trains. Compensation is also made for the conveyance of bags in charge
of the company's servants at the rate of from 2 to 4 cents per mile
actually travelled by the trains performing such service.

9. When service by postal cars is necessary, the companies are bound
to furnish Travelling Post Offices suitably fitted up, and to see that
they are properly heated, lighted and cleaned, and supplied with
water.

10. All plans for the fitting up of these Travelling Post Offices
should, previous to being carried out, be submitted for the approval
of the Postmaster General.

11. No promise of remuneration for services performed in connection
with the Postal Service should be made to any person in the employ of
a railway company. For all such services, compensation is made to the
company in the regular allowance paid to them.

12. Canvas bags, as a general rule, should be used for the Railway
Mail Service. The necessary supplies will be furnished on application
to the Postmaster General.

XIII.

CIRCULATION OR DISTRIBUTION.

1. On the correct distribution of Mail Matter greatly depends the
efficiency of the Postal Service, and this is, therefore, a point
which requires your constant and careful supervision.

2. As a general rule all officers between which pass large numbers of
letters and papers should exchange direct mails, and the termini of
routes should be constituted forward or distributing offices.

3. Each Distribution Book or List should be prepared on a uniform
plan. Books and forms for Manuscript Distribution Lists can be
obtained on application to the Secretary.

4. You should see that all the Railway Mail Clerks and such
Postmasters as require them, are furnished with proper Distribution
Books, and that these books are from time to time revised and
corrected.

5. All changes in the distribution in your Division should be recorded
in a