NOTE.

This book contains sections of the Postal Laws and Regulations (edition of 1913), amended to date, that are applicable to the Rural Mail Service. Each carrier will be furnished with a copy, which must be taken with him while on the service of his route.

Carriers will be required to familiarize themselves thoroughly with these regulations and to correct their books as amendments to the regulations appear in the monthly Supplement to the Official Postal Guide.

The postal laws are printed in small type and the regulations in large type.

A regulation has all the force of law when not in conflict with a statute.

This book is the property of the Post Office Department and should be surrendered by the carrier at the expiration of his term of service.

JAS. I. BLAKSLEE,

Fourth Assistant Postmaster General.

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Sec. 8. Regulations. The head of each department is authorized to prescribe regulations, not inconsistent with law, for the government of his department, the conduct of its officers and clerks, the distribution and performance of its business, and the custody, use, and preservation of the records, papers, and property appertaining to it.

2. All regulations or amendments thereof shall be promulgated by the Postmaster General and duly entered of record in the journal.

Sec. 5a. Absence on account of disability. That hereafter the Postmaster General shall have authority to employ acting employees in place of all employees or substitutes hereinafter mentioned (railway postal clerk, substitute railway postal clerk, supervisory official of the Railway Mail Service, post-office inspector, letter carrier in the City Delivery Service, rural letter carrier, post-office clerk, or special delivery messenger) who are injured while on duty, who shall be granted leave of absence with full pay during the period of disability, but not exceeding one year, then at the rate of fifty per centum of the employee's salary for the period of disability exceeding one year, but not exceeding twelve months additional. * * * Provided, That no compensation shall be paid any such employee for any injuryjoccasioned by his own negligence. (Act of March 9, 1914.)

2. Whenever an employee specified in paragraph 1 of this section is injured while on duty, the division superintendent, Railway Mail Service, inspector in charge, or postmaster, as the case may be, shall immediately report to the department the fact of such injury and the circum

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