Ordered. That the Postmasters at the end of every Mail Route in the United States be required to keep Registers of the arrival and departure of all Mails which are opened at their Offices respectively setting forth the exact time of each arrival and each departure, and the manner of conveyance when it varies from the contract, and giving the reasons for every delinquency, or failure to arrive at the time prescribed in the schedules if known to them.

The Postmasters at the ends of Routes on which the Mails are carried on horseback or in sulkies, will forward these Registers to the Department at the close of every month.

The Postmasters at the ends of all Routes on which the Mails are carried in Stages Post-coaches, Steam Boats or on Rail-Roads, will return these Registers, at the close of each week, unless otherwise specially directed.

This Regulation will not exempt Postmasters from the duty of promptly reporting all extraordinary failures, as heretofore.1