I, <i>(Name of person and capacity in which employed, to be inserted here.)</i> do solemnly and sincerely promise and <i>(swear or affirm)</i> that I will faithfully perform all the duties required of me by my employment in the service of the Post Office, and will abstain from everything forbidden by the Laws for the Establishment and Government of the Post Office Department in Canada.--So Help me God. This <i>(oath or affirmation)</i> was taken and } subscribed before me, the day } of 186 } ______________, <i>J.P.</i>} <tb> POST OFFICE. [Sidenote: Sign.] The words "Post Office," in large and conspicuous letters, should be exhibited outside every building in which a Post Office is kept. [Sidenote: Letter Box.] A Letter Box should also be fixed, with an opening accessible from the road or street, the words "Letter Box" being painted over the same in plain legible characters. [Sidenote: Separate office.] A separate office or apartment, conveniently fitted up for the purpose, should be provided by the postmaster for conducting the business wherever the duties are sufficiently extensive or important to require such accommodation. The internal fittings of the office should vary according to the nature of the duties. [Sidenote: Lobby.] At every principal office there should be a lobby or standing place within doors for the accommodation of parties applying at the office. [Sidenote: Where separate office not required.] Where the Postmaster General may consider that a separate room may be dispensed with, the letters and papers, both for delivery and despatch, are to be kept in a secure place, and, if practicable, under lock and key. [Sidenote: Bar-room not to be used.] A bar-room or public room in a tavern is never to be made use of as a post office, nor should the entrance to a post office be through a bar-room. [Sidenote: Unauthorized persons.] No person except the postmaster or his sworn assistant should, on any pretence whatever, be allowed to have access to the letters and papers in a post office. [Sidenote: Situation.] A Post Office should be in a convenient and central situation, and must not be removed from one part of a town, village, or settlement, to another without the approval first obtained of the Postmaster General. [Sidenote: Protection.] Postmasters are required to take every precaution to secure their offices against burglary and fire. <tb> OFFICE HOURS. [Sidenote: Principal offices.] At the principal Post Offices in Canada the hours of opening and closing are regulated by the Postmaster General. [Sidenote: Country offices.] In country places Postmasters are required to keep their offices open during the usual hours of business in the locality, and to attend at such other hours as may be necessary to receive and despatch the mails. [Sidenote: Sundays, Canada West.]