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Introduced in the House as H.R. 154 by Samuel Livermore [1] (F-NH) on November 29, 1791 Signed into law by President George Washington [ 2 ] on February 20, 1792 The Postal Service Act was a piece of United States federal legislation that established the United States Post Office Department .
Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution, known as the Postal Clause or the Postal Power, empowers Congress "To establish Post Offices and post Roads." The Post Office has the constitutional authority to designate mail routes.
The 1st United States Congress, comprising the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives, met from March 4, 1789, to March 4, 1791, during the first two years of George Washington's presidency, first at Federal Hall in New York City and later at Congress Hall in Philadelphia.
1799: U.S. Congress passes law authorizing death penalty for mail robbery; 1813: First mail carried by steamboat; 1832: First official railroad mail service; 1847: First U.S. postage stamps issued; 1857: Perforated stamps introduced; 1860: Pony Express started; 1861: Mailing of post cards authorized; 1873: Prestamped "postal cards" introduced
[23] [24] Absentee ballots were first used on a large scale for the military during the American Civil War. [25] [26] Early absentee voting laws restricted the practice to members of the armed services. [27] The first allowance for civilian absentee voting was in Vermont in 1896. [27] By 1938, 42 states allowed absentee voting for civilians. [27]
1635 31 July - Charles I made the Royal Mail service available to the public for the first time with postage being paid by the recipient. [7]1639 - The General Court of Massachusetts designates the tavern of Richard Fairbanks in Boston as the official repository of overseas mail, making it the first postal establishment in the Thirteen Colonies.
There was a notable extension to new fields. In Vermont, where the first paper, established in 1781, had soon died, another arose in 1783; in Maine, two were started in 1785. In 1786, the first one west of the Alleghenies appeared at Pittsburgh, and following the westward tide of immigration the Kentucky Gazette was begun at Lexington in 1787.
Congress Voting Independence, by Robert Edge Pine, depicts the Second Continental Congress voting in 1776.. Although one can trace the history of the Congress of the United States to the First Continental Congress, which met in the autumn of 1774, [2] the true antecedent of the United States Congress was convened on May 10, 1775, with twelve colonies in attendance.