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tractors or postmasters to examine their mail box, and see their 

 time bill. 



17. It is a guard's duty to report if horses are unfit for the 

 service, or if the harness and reins are bad. 



18. It is a guard's duty always to have a box of tools com- 

 plete, according to the several articles enumerated below ; l also 

 a blunderbuss and case, a pair of pistols and holsters, a powder 

 horn, bullet mould, screwdriver, touch-hole picker, and lock for 

 the mail-box, and also a double or long spreading bar; and if 

 they do not keep them clean and in the most perfect repair, 

 the inspector will report it, and he will be punished for his 

 neglect. 



19. In case of any accident that occasions the coach to be 

 delayed in its progress, it must be the guard's duty to see that 

 on the contractor's refusal, the guards are to get horses else- 

 where, and send an immediate account of the same to this 

 office. 



20. The mail box, which on the regular coaches is calculated 

 for the reception of letter bags and such things only as relate to 

 the conveyance of the mail, must be confined entirely to that 

 use, and neither packets, parcels, luggage, or any other descrip- 

 tion of thing whatever must be put therein. 



21. No luggage can be allowed on the roof which interferes 

 with the proper packing and safety of any sacks of letters which 

 the mails are in some cases obliged to carry there. No luggage 

 to be placed on the roof till after the boot is full, and then only 

 that which belongs to passengers. No more than three articles, 

 being portmanteaus or carpet-bags, are on any pretence to be 

 allowed, whether they be large or small, and the largest port- 

 manteau is not to exceed 2 feet 4 inches in length, and I foot 

 6 inches in height. They are never to be placed on each other. 



1 Two trace chains, one pole chain, two tug chains, one hatchet, one 

 strong hammer, one wrench ditto, one small saw, one drift pin, one large 

 spike bit, two gimlets, one main bar, shackles, bolts, clips, nuts, worms, 

 screws, nails, cord. 



