Officers prohibited from voting.
The postmasters of Quebec, Montreal, Three Rivers, and Sherbrooke, and the postmasters of incorporated cities and towns in Upper Canada, divided into wards, and other officers of the Post Office Department, excepting Postmasters at other than the above places, cannot legally vote at the election of any member of the Legislative Council or of the Legislative Assembly.
No credit allowed.
Postmasters are not authorized to give credit for postage, if they do so it is entirely at their own risk.
Return of letter to sender not allowed.
A letter once posted becomes the property of the person to whom it is addressed, and must be forwarded according to its direction. On no application, however urgent, can it be delivered back to the writer, or to any other person.
Letters addressed to firms, &c.
A letter addressed to a firm may be delivered to any member of the firm. If addressed to several persons it may be delivered to any one of them.
Letters delivered to wrong parties.
A letter delivered to the wrong person in consequence of his name being the same as the one of the person for whom the letter is really intended, should be at once returned to the postmaster from whom received, the party writing on the cover "opened by me through mistake," and signing his name thereto.