Ten Years Among the Mail Bags: Or, Notes from the Diary of a Special Agent of the Post-office DepartmentH. Cowperthwait & Company, 1855 - 432 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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Página 215 - If any person shall, knowingly and wilfully, obstruct or retard the passage of the mail, or of any driver or carrier, or of any horse or carriage carrying the same, he shall, upon conviction, for every such offence, pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars...
Página 429 - ... shall have in his possession any such mail lock or key with the intent unlawfully or improperly to use, sell, or otherwise dispose of the same, or to cause the same to be unlawfully or improperly used, sold, or otherwise disposed of; or...
Página 351 - The defendant requested the Court to charge the jury as follows : — 1. That the...
Página 257 - The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
Página 428 - ... be for the use of the informer, and the other half for the use of the State Board of Health.
Página 430 - Department; and any person who shall violate this provision shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than ten nor more than five hundred dollars.
Página 422 - ... before it shall have been delivered to the person to whom it is directed, with a design to obstruct the correspondence, to pry into another's business or secrets...
Página 427 - Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit the conveyance or transmission of letters or packets by private hands without compensation, or by special messenger employed for the particular occasion only.
Página 425 - And if any other person shall open any mail or packet of newspapers, or shall embezzle or destroy the same, not being directed to such person, or not being authorized to receive or open the same, such offender shall, on the conviction thereof, pay a sum not exceeding twenty dollars for every such offence.
Página 422 - ... or if, in effecting such robbery of the mail the first time, the offender shall wound the person having custody thereof, or put his life in jeopardy, by the use of dangerous weapons, such offender or offenders shall suffer...