Post Master General v. Early
Supreme Court of the United States
THIS was an action of debt, commenced in the Circuit Court fof the district of Georgia, by the District Attorney of the United States for that district, in the name of the Post Master General of. the United States, gainst the defendants, on a bond executed by them, in June. 1820, to the Post Master General of the United States, the condition of which, after reciting that Eleazer Early (one of the coobligors and defendants in the suit) is Post Master at Savannah, provides,…
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THIS was an action of debt, commenced in the Circuit Court fof the district of Georgia, by the District Attorney of the United States for that district, in the name of the Post Master General of. the United States, gainst the defendants, on a bond executed by them, in June. 1820, to the Post Master General of the United States, the condition of which, after reciting that Eleazer Early (one of the coobligors and defendants in the suit) is Post Master at Savannah, provides, that if he shall perform the duties of his office, “ add shall, pay all moneys that shall come to his hands for the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Marshall
The post office department was established at the commencement of the revolution, under the superintendence of a Post Master General, who was authorized to appoint his deputies, and was made responsible for their conduct. Soon a^ter ad°pti°n of the present government, in September, 1789, Congress passed a temporary act, directing that a Post Master General should be appointed, and that his powers, and, the regulations of his office, should be the same as they last were, “ under the resolutions and ordinances of the last Congress.’.’ The power of appointing deputies, therefore, and the…
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