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Definition of Postmasters
1. postmaster [n] - See also: postmaster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Postmasters
Literary usage of Postmasters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"That the annual compensation of postmasters shall be at a fixed salary, ...
"postmasters of the first class shall receive not more than $4000, nor less than ..."
2. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1855)
"The observance of this rule is strictly enjoined upon all postmasters, ...
postmasters must be careful to use, in nailing letters or packets, all wrapping ..."
3. Compiled Statutes of the United States, 1913: Embracing the Statutes of the by John Allan Mallory, United States (1914)
"Accounts and revenues 7598 CHAPTER ONE Post-Offices and postmasters Sec. ...
Classification of postmasters. 7190. Appointment and removal of postmasters; ..."
4. American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge edited by Jared Sparks, Francis Bowen, George Partridge Sanger (1855)
"The commissions allowed postmasters are as follows, viz. : — 1. ... The postmasters
at New Orleans and Washington have special allowances for extra labor. ..."
5. Commentaries on the Law of Bailments: With Illustrations from the Civil and by Joseph Story, James Schouler (1878)
"Deputy postmasters, how far responsible.] • § 461. And first as to postmasters.
When the mail was carried for hire by private persons, from town to town, ..."
6. The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year edited by Jared Sparks, Francis Bowen, George Partridge Sanger (1861)
"COMPENSATION or postmasters. The commissions allowed postmasters are as follows,
viz.: — 1. ... The postmasters at New Orleans and Washington have special ..."
7. Commentaries on the Law of Bailments: With Illustrations from the Civil and by Joseph Story (1840)
"These are the cases of postmasters, INNKEEPERS, and COMMON CARRIERS. Each of
these exceptions stands upon the ground of some peculiar public policy, and, ..."
8. The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge (1857)
"COMPENSATION OF postmasters. The commissions allowed postmasters are as ...
The postmasters at New Orleans and Washington have special allowances for extra ..."
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