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Potmasters' Fees

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
March
Year
1861
Copyright
Public Domain
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From reiparks which we freqiwntly heat-, as to the pecuniary value to the ncumbent of our largtwt Ppsioflices, it e evident that the subject is about ae ittle understood as any other eoonected A-iih Piiatnffiee nwtterá. For instauro. juiie an intelligent rnerchant rec'eotly usited, in our hearing thai the New York Postoffice was ivorth "all the way [rom $0,000 to $15,Q()0 per annum to the Postmaster." Ths lüCts ure simply thosu .- The matter of the compenaation f Postunislers is e'i'irely regulated and connolled by law All offices whera the comiiiissions amouat to 82 000 and upwards, :ire designaied as sal'ai-y olficee, 8-,'00 bei.ig the maximum pay allo ved tV.i:n tnat BOarce and an adtluional $1,0)0 to ba taken uit of the receipis lor b x renls - making StOOO he nighe-st oompensadon to any Postmaster. A larger éurn than thif canno bc realized without resort ing to acts made criminal and felonious by lawa of Cmgress, and punishable bv the savere-t pönaltres, Even were a" Postmááter ioclined to take the risk of such penaltius, as woil as the ruin of private and official oharaöten, suoh are' the checks and restruints now entorjed, that the ' pickins and stealings" which many outsiders so flippantlytalk about, are entirely out ot the q stion. And Uit wero not so, the indubence in such prácticos would ir.volve perjury, as a Postmaster is re'uired to make oath that he has kept aothing from the Governmeni in the way of fees or emolumcnts oí any kind, to which he is notlegally entitled. It will thusbe seen that the New York Postofice, with its 138 ulerk, 117 pennv-posts, $1,000,000 animal revonue oolleoted, and its $150,000 bonds, er an hoDest adminiairauon oí us awy oannot be made to net muob.if any, more than sorr.e other offices, with perhaps a dozen clerk, a few thousand collectiona and required socurities of eoe-fifth the amoun't. We intend booo to prepare a statement of the emolurnents received íuinually at t'ae large Poatoffices in the several atatea.-

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