31. You have authority when you find it necessary to suspend a Postmaster, Clerk, or any other employé in your Division.
All the circumstances, however, should be at once reported to the Postmaster General.
32. When it is noticed that Postage Stamps attached to letters or other postal matter frequently fall off, or if it should be found that the stamps are insufficiently gummed or badly perforated, the fact should be reported to the Postmaster General, the name of the office at which the posting took place being given.
33. In closing a Post Office, or in transferring a Post Office to a newly appointed Postmaster, always see that the accounts are made up to the day of closing or transfer; and that the balance due thereon is paid and _deposited in the Bank to the credit of the Postmaster General_. The assumption by an incoming Postmaster of a balance due by his predecessor is objectionable. The amount due from the out-going Postmaster should, in all cases, be deposited as above, to the credit of the Postmaster General.
34. Except in very special cases, the opening and closing of offices should take effect on the first day of each month.
35. In the case of the transfer of a Money Order Office, the Transfer Receipt should be sent to the Superintendent of the Money Order Branch, at Ottawa, by the first mail after the transfer takes effect.
36. Immoral publications and other articles, the transmission of which through the mail are prohibited--and which are sent to you by the Railway Mail Clerks in your Division--should be at once forwarded to the Postmaster General.
37. All forms, books, stationery, &c., required for your office must be applied for by requisition to the Postmaster General in accordance with the Instructions contained in the Catalogue of articles in stock in the Printing and Supply Branch of the Department, a copy of which has been furnished to you.
38. If any of the Regulations laid down in these instructions cannot be carried out in your Division, you will make a confidential report to the Postmaster General, stating the reasons why this cannot be done.
1. All papers and correspondence referring to the same case should be kept together.
2. No letters or papers should be put away until the matter to which they refer is finally disposed of.