19

8. Mail Service, 19

9. Establishment of New Routes or Alteration in Routes
already in operation, 20

10. Contracts for Mail Service, 21

11. Bonds, 23

12. Railway Mail Service, 24

13. Circulation or Distribution, 26

14. Travelling, 27

15. Cases of Loss or Abstraction, 28

16. Arrears and Outstanding Accounts, 32

17. Conclusion, 33

I.

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS.

1. You are required personally to superintend the performance of the
routine work of your office and see that it is properly done.

2. This routine work should be suitably and fairly apportioned amongst
your clerks--each clerk (under your superintendence) being responsible
for the duty assigned to him. You will, after fair warning, report to
the Postmaster General any clerk who fails correctly and efficiently
to perform this duty.

3. Carefully superintend the working of the Department in all its
branches within the limits of your Division. As however, it is
important, that the operations of the Department should be carried on
under one uniform plan throughout the Dominion, do not make any
alterations in the system of doing the work without the permission
first obtained of the Postmaster General.

4. Endeavor to instil into all persons connected with the Department
in your Division the importance of a harmonious working together for
the good of the Service, and of each, in his own sphere, performing
the duties assigned to him in an intelligent and thorough manner.

5. All letters received on official business should be carefully and
promptly attended to.

6. All matters referred to you from the Department at Ottawa should be
disposed of with the least possible delay.

7. Provision should be made for the performance of the ordinary
routine work of your office when you are absent, under the
superintendence of your senior clerk.

8. No portion of your work should be allowed to fall into arrear; If
it should do so, however, from circumstances beyond your control, you
will at once report the fact to the Postmaster General.

9. See that the Time Bills and Mail Transfer Receipts are properly
exam