Hon. CHARLES STEWART (Argenteuil) (Acting Postmaster General) moved that the House go into committee at the next sitting to consider the following proposed resolution: Resolved, that it is expedient to amend the Post Office Act by providing that the Postmaster General may prescribe and enforce such regulations as to letters directed to be registered, as to him seem necessary, in respect to the registration of letters and other matter passing by mail, and to the charge to be made for the same, and to compensation for loss not to exceed one hundred dollars in any one case.
He said: His Excellency the Governor General, having been made acquainted with the