2. With each report on an application for a new Post Office should be sent a sketch or tracing (from the map of your Division) shewing as nearly as can be ascertained the position of the proposed office and mail route, and the offices and mail routes already in operation in its neighborhood.
VII.
MAIL ARRANGEMENTS.[ToC]
1. The principal object of all mail arrangements is to ensure the transit of the letters and papers to destination with the utmost possible despatch.
2. The main routes throughout the Provinces should connect with each other as closely as it is possible.
3. The branch routes should be so arranged as to form as close a connection as possible with the main lines.
4. Through bags should be exchanged by all offices between which pass a large number of letters and papers, including Travelling Post Offices on different routes.