The Constitution of Canada

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Identifikator:: 1895543282

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-242408

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Munro, Joseph Edwin Crawford http://d-nb.info/gnd/1113111038

Title:: The Constitution of Canada

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: Univ. Press

Year of publication:: 1889

Scope:: XXXVI, 356 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter XVII. The Dominion Administration

Collection:: Economics Books

DEPARTMENT OF THE POST-OFFICE. 205 varied. He is authorized by statute’ to exercise the following powers :— 1. to establish and close post-offices and post routes, 2. to appoint postmasters, other than those appointed by the Governor-General, and other officers and servants, and to remove or suspend any postmaster or other officer or servant, 3. to enter into and enforce mail contracts, 4 to make regulations as to what is mailable matter; to restrict the weight and dimensions of letters and packets sent by post; and to prevent the sending of explosive, dangerous, contraband or improper articles, or obscene or immoral publications, 5. to establish rates of postage for mailable matter not being letters, and to prescribe the conditions on which such articles will be received, 6. to prepare and distribute postage stamps and stamped envelopes, 7. to make postal arrangements with other countries, 8. to make arrangements for refunding postage on H. M. Military or Naval Service, 9. to make regulations regarding money orders, 10. to make regulations regarding registered letters, 11. to decide what is to be decreed a letter, 12. to sue for money due, 13. to provide street boxes, 14. to grant licenses for sale of stamps, 15. to impose pecuniary penalties not exceeding $200 for contravention of regulations, 16. generally to make regulations for carrying on the work of the department. Tn addition to the above powers relating to the ordinary business of a post-office the Postmaster-General has also power to establish a parcel post’, and with the consent of the Governor-General a system of post-office savings banks’. 1 1b, 8. 9. 2 Ib. s. 41. 3 Th. 5. 63.

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