| United States. Court of Claims - 1919 - 740 pages
...right to refuse to contract at all. On June 7, 1907, the Postmaster General issued Order 412, which provides " That when the weight of mails is taken...shall be used as a divisor for obtaining the average weight per day." No attempt to apply this rule to existing contracts was made. The rule was intended... | |
| United States. Post Office Dept - 1907 - 412 pages
...defect, I issued order No. 412, dated June 7, 1907. which reads as follows : When the weight of mail is taken on railroad routes, the whole number of days...shall be used as a divisor for obtaining the average weight per day. It should be observed that at the time of the adoption of the method of computing the... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - 1909 - 598 pages
...verified in sueli form ami manner as the. Postmaster-General mai/ direct, and the whole number of daji-t included in the weighing period shall be used as a divisor for obtaining UK' average daily weight. In connection with such weighing and readjustment. where there arc tiro or... | |
| United States. Post Office Dept - 1911 - 410 pages
...annum, which, during the contract term from July 1, 1910, to June 30, 1914, will amount to $15,636.08. Complete application of the new divisor*. — The...mail transportation in each section was as follows : Contract section. Divisor in effect from — Consequent reduction In rate of annual pay. Third July... | |
| United States. Post Office Dept - 1912 - 432 pages
...of obtaining the average daily weight has been referred to in annual reports in previous years. It provides that when the weight of mails is taken on...a divisor for obtaining the average daily weight. The railroad companies generally object to tliis order and in filing in the department the distance... | |
| United States - 1914 - 726 pages
...result to be staled and verified in such form and manner as the Postmaster General may direct, and the whole number of days included in the weighing...a divisor for obtaining the average daily weight. In connection with such weighing and readjustment, where there are two or more routes by which the... | |
| United States - 1914 - 936 pages
...the order was made without authority of law. This order, briefly described, was one requiring that the whole number of days included in the weighing...shall be used as a divisor for obtaining the average weights per day, instead of successive working days, excluding Sundays as heretofore. The railroads... | |
| United States. Post Office Dept - 1914 - 390 pages
...the service with the Department of Justice have been justified. The order referred to prescribed that the whole number of days included in the weighing...shall be used as a divisor for obtaining the average weight of mails carried per day upon which the compensation paid to railroads for the carriage of the... | |
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