AMENDMENTS
To the Constitution of the United States, Ratified According to the
Provisions of the Fifth Article of the Foregoing Constitution.
Article I.--Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment
of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging
the freedom of the speech, or of the press; or the right of the
people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for
redress of grievances.
Article II.--A well regulated militia, being necessary to the
security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear
arms shall not be infringed.
Article III.--No soldiers shall, in time of peace, be quartered in
any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war,
but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Article IV.--The right of the people to be secure in their persons,
houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and
seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue,
but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and
particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons
or things to be seized.
Article V.--No person shall be held to answer for a capital or
otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of
a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces,
or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war and public
danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to
be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled
in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor to be
deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just
compensation.
Article VI.--In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy
the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the
State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed,
which district shall have been previously ascertained by law,
and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to
be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory
process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the
assistance of counsel for his defence.
Article VII.--In suits at common law, where the value in
controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by
jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be
otherwise re-examined in any court of the United States than
according to the rules of the common law.
Article VIII.--Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive
fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Article IX.--The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights,
shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the
people.
Article X.--The powers not delegated to the United States by the
Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to
the States respectively, or to the people.
Article XI.--The judicial power of the United States shall not be
construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or
prosecute against one of the United States by citizens of another
State, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign state.
Article XII.--See page 176.
Article XIII.--Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary
servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the person
shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United
States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.
Article XIV.--Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the
United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are
citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the
privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor
shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property,
without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its
jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Section 2. Representatives shall be appointed among the several
States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole
number of persons in each State excluding Indians not taxed.
But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of
Electors for President and Vice-President of the United States,
Representatives in Congress, the executive or judicial officers of
a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to
any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years
of age and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged
except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of
representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the
number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male
citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in
Congress, or Elector of President or Vice-President, or hold any
office, civil or military, under the United States, or under
any State, who, having previously taken an oath as a member of
Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of
any State Legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of
any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall
have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or
given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by
a vote of two-thirds of each house, remove such disability.
Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States,
authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions
and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion,
shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any
State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of
insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim
for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts,
obligations, and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Section 5. Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate
legislation, the provisions of this article.
Article XV.--Section 1. The rights of citizens of the United
States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United
States, or by any State, on account of race, color, or previous
condition of servitude.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.
CHAPTER XXII.
STATIONS of the POST OFFICE, NEW YORK, N. Y.
CARRIER STATIONS.
=Designation= =Location=.
=A=--126 Greene street, corner Prince street.
=B=--Grand street, southeast corner Attorney street.
=C=--West 13th street and Ninth avenue.
=D=--103-105 East 12th street.
=E=--110-114 West 32d street, near Sixth avenue.
=F=--149-155 East 34th street, between Lexington and Third avenues.
=G=--217-225 West 51st street, near Broadway.
=H=--178-180 West 102d street, near Amsterdam avenue.
=I=--232-234 West 116th street, between Seventh and Eighth avenues.
=J=--2309-2311 Eighth avenue, corner 124th street.
*=K=--202-204 East 88th street, near Third avenue.
*=L=--147 East 125th street, corner Lexington avenue.
=M=--2088 Amsterdam avenue, near 163d street.
=N=--Broadway, corner 69th street.
=O=--112-114-116 West 18th street, between Sixth and Seventh
avenues.
=P=--Custom House Building
*=R=--378-380 East 149th street, between Third and Cortland avenues.
=S=--Broadway, corner Howard street.
=T=--507-509 East 165th street, between Third and Washington
avenues.
*=U=--Third avenue, corner 103d street.
=V=--Northwest corner of West Broadway and Beach street.
*=W=--160-162 West 83d street, near Amsterdam avenue.
=X=--373-375 East 138th street, near Willis avenue.
*=Y=--1160-1162 Third avenue, near 68th street.
=City Island=--Southwest corner Main and Adams streets.
=College=--305-307 West 140th street, near Eighth avenue.
=Fordham=--2519 Webster avenue, near Fordham road.
=Foreign=--West street, corner Morton street.
=Fox Street=--Fox street, between 167th and 169th streets.
*=Grand Central Station=--110 East 45th street, between Lexington
avenue and Depew place.
=Hamilton Grange=--521-523 West 146th street.
=High Bridge=--Lind street and Summit avenue.
=Hudson Terminal=--Cortland Building, 30 Church street, between
Cortlandt and Dey streets.
=Jay Street=--Jay and Greenwich streets (not a carrier station).
=Kings Bridge=--5233 Broadway, between 225th and 227th streets.
=Madison Square=--310-316 Fourth avenue, between 23d and 24th
streets.
=Morris Heights=--West 177th street, near Cedar avenue.
=Pelham Branch.=
=Pelham Manor Branch.=
*=Times Square=--231-241 West 39th street.
=Tompkins Square=--12th street and Avenue B.
=Tremont=--1931 Washington avenue, between 177th and 178th streets.
=Wall Street=--60 Wall street.
=Washington Bridge=--Amsterdam avenue, near 180th street.
=Westchester=--1471 Williamsbridge road, near Eastchester road.
=Williamsbridge=--3455 White Plains avenue, near Gun Hill road.
* Postal Savings Depository.
Brooklyn.
=Station= =Location=
=A=--661 Broadway.
=B=--1266-1268 Fulton street.
=C=--5316-5318 Fifth avenue.
=D=--1915-1917 Fulton street.
=E=--2634 Atlantic avenue.
=Flatbush=--830 Flatbush avenue.
=G=--860 Manhattan avenue.
=Bath Beach=--1848 Bath avenue, near 19th street.
=J=--Myrtle avenue, near Wyckoff avenue.
=Blythebourne=--13th avenue and 55th street.
=L=--Flatbush avenue, L. I. R. R. Depot.
=Coney Island=--Surf avenue, opp. West 17th street.
=Fort Hamilton=--9110 Fifth avenue.
=Sheepshead Bay=--1780 Shore Road.
=P=--1731 Pitkin avenue.
=Vanderveer=--Flatbush avenue, near Nostrand avenue.
=S=--1262-1264 Broadway.
=T=--170-172 Hamilton avenue.
=V=--Fifth avenue and 9th street.
=Y=--S. W. cor., 47th street and Gravesend avenue.
=W=--Broadway and South 8th street.
=Barren Island=--Barren Island.
=Navy Yard=--Navy Yard.
INDEX
ADDRESSES-- Page
Reading of 50
APPLICATIONS--
Questions to be Filled Out In 30
Where and How to Obtain 20
APPOINTMENTS AND SALARIES 15
ARITHMETIC 46, 54, 60, 69
BONDED--
Clerks and Carriers are 14, 132
BROOKLYN--
Carrier Stations In 196
CANDIDATES--
What is Required of Them 11
CAPITAL LETTERS--
Use of 84
CARRIERS--
Delivery and Collection of Mail by 145
Hours of Service 140
Moral Responsibility of 18
Performance of Service of 138
Rules for 129
“Stars” for 137
“Subbing” of 139
Uniform of 133
CRADLE DAYS OF THE P. O. SERVICE 5
CLERKS--
Promotion of 15, 24
Bonded 14
Resignation of 17
“Subs” 18
COMPETITORS--
How Judged 86
CONSTITUTION OF THE U. S. 163
Amendments to 187
COPYING--
From Plain Copy 49
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 156
DECIMALS--
Operation of 54
DISTRICT REGULATIONS 95
EDUCATIONAL TEST 43
EXAMINATIONS--
In Far East 126
Problems, In Earlier 47
Subjects of 44
ELIGIBLE REGISTER 88
FRANKLIN--
First Postmaster General 8
FINES FOR VIOLATING RULES 17
INDEPENDENCE, DECLARATION OF 156
INSTRUCTION--
Courses of 52
LABOR--
Hours of 16
LAW AND GOSPEL OF P. O. SERVICE 154
LETTER WRITING 48
MEDICAL CERTIFICATES 39
MESSENGER--
Special Delivery 150
MORGAN, EDWARD M. (Frontispiece) 6
NEW YORK--
Carrier Stations In 193
NEW YORK’S POST OFFICE--
First Post Office 7
History of 6
State Offices In 25
PENMANSHIP 49
POSTAL SERVICE--
History of N. Y. 7
Law and Gospel of 154
PHYSICAL CONDITIONS 12
PROMOTION--
For Good Clerks 14, 24
PUNCTUATION--
Rules of 80
QUESTIONS--
Earlier Examination 43, 47
To be Filled Out in Application 30
RATING--
Rules for 90
REINSTATEMENT 17, 130
REGULATIONS, DISTRICT 95
RESIGNATIONS 132
RULES--
Violations of 17
For Letter Carriers 129
SALARIES AND APPOINTMENTS 15
“STARS” FOR CARRIERS 137
SERVICE--
Performance of 138
SPELLING 45
SPECIAL DELIVERY MESSENGERS 150
“SUBS” 18, 139
TRANSFERS 24, 131
UNIFORM OF LETTER CARRIERS 133
VACANCIES 130
VOUCHERS 36
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been
corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within
the text and consultation of external sources.
Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text,
and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained, for example,
subserved; employe; inclosed; efulgent; sufferable; repassed.
Pg 7: ‘inhabitants. The’ replaced by ‘inhabitants, the’.
Pg 8: ‘the recipts for’ replaced by ‘the receipts for’.
Pg 27: ‘Port Plain’ replaced by ‘Fort Plain’.
Pg 30: ‘sworn statments’ replaced by ‘sworn statements’.
Pg 32: ‘different braches’ replaced by ‘different branches’.
Pg 40: ‘any deformiy’ replaced by ‘any deformity’.
Pg 49: ‘by legability’ replaced by ‘by legibility’.
Pg 50: ‘action therupon’ replaced by ‘action thereupon’.
Pg 63: ‘Generally MXm = p’ replaced by ‘Generally M × m = p’.
Pg 64: ‘7 + 7 = 49’ replaced by ‘7 × 7 = 49’.
Pg 66: ‘divisable by 8’ replaced by ‘divisible by 8’.
Pg 79: ‘tens collumn’ replaced by ‘tens column’.
Pg 92: ‘letter writting’ replaced by ‘letter writing’.
Pg 98: ‘Bennnigton, Vt.’ replaced by ‘Bennington, Vt.’.
Pg 101: Two lines were transposed. The line ‘kers, N. Y.’ has been
moved to the correct place.
Pg 109: ‘followng offices’ replaced by ‘following offices’.
Pg 109: ‘Meridan, Miss.’ replaced by ‘Meridian, Miss.’.
Pg 118: ‘Witchita, Kans.’ replaced by ‘Wichita, Kans.’.
Pg 145: ‘adressees unless’ replaced by ‘addressees unless’.
Pg 146: ‘at the sidwalk’ replaced by ‘at the sidewalk’.
Pg 151: ‘total permissable’ replaced by ‘total permissible’.
Pg 154: ‘abstruce problems’ replaced by ‘abstruse problems’.
Pg 160: ‘death, desolution’ replaced by ‘death, desolation’.
Pg 164: ‘Deleware, one’ replaced by ‘Delaware, one’.
Pg 177: ‘But person’ replaced by ‘But no person’.
Pg 195: ‘5233 Boardway’ replaced by ‘5233 Broadway’.
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