2004-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2004
Printed circular, 1p. quarto, July 14, 1863, War Department, issued by Secretary of War Stanton, and reads: “...The new postal law, which went into effect on the 1st July instant, requires that ‘all correspondence addressed to any Executive Department, or any officer in it, must now be prepaid, except official communications written by some officer of the Department, or an officer under its control or responsible to it; and in such cases, under the words ‘Official Business,’ on the envelope, the officer must sign his name, with his official designation. All other persons, and all officers writing to Departments with which they are not connected, must prepay their postage...” VG.
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