The report of the Committee of Style, made on September 12, fixed the grant as that “to establish postoffices and postroads,” this being the form in which it became a part of the Constitution.
Soon afterwards the General Court of Massachusetts appointed a postmaster and a proclamation was issued by the home government calling for the establishment of postoffices at convenient places on the American continent.
When the power to establish postoffices and postroads was surrendered to the Congress it was as a complete power, and the grant carried with it the right to exercise all the powers which made that power effective.
The Articles of Confederation gave the limited power of establishing and regulating postoffices “from one state to another.
He carried the mail to Stockville and Medicine, which were newly established postoffices in the interior to the north, and his conveyance was the hind wheels of an ordinary wagon, to which he had fashioned a pair of thills.
Those were the first postoffices in Fillmore county.
The Montreal postoffice has had under its control for many years subsidiary district postoffices as the growth of population demanded them.
It is true that the abolition of many rural postofficeshas destroyed an old-time rendezvous, but farmers probably go to the community center more frequently than formerly.
By the same article and section it is given authority “to establish postoffices and post roads.
In the large cities the telegraph offices are situated in the branch postoffices and served by the same men, so that it is difficult to divide the cost of maintenance.
It also shows how they fought for postoffices then as they do now, and how careful and shrewd these old fellows were in getting in touch with their constituents.
Many of the old town sites have been vacated, and many of the old postoffices and country stores which one found throughout the county in the early fifties can no longer be found on the map.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "postoffices" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
