The correspondence of the Post Office Savings Bank and its organs with the depositors is with reference to orders to addresses designated free from the tax of 1 kreutzer the letter, a tax appointed with reference to the post offices not dependent on the Treasury and to rural post offices, and in connection with the collection of registered letters also to those dependent on the Treasury. The memorials addressed to the Post Office Savings Bank, to the Post Office authorities and their organs by depositors their legal successors, or authorised representatives, as well as the acts of conveyance mentioned in article 6 of the law of May 28^{th} 1882 are stamp and duty free. The interests of the savings deposits are in like manner exempt from the Income Tax and from any future tax coming in its place. The deposit-book as well as the forms necessary in giving instructions in business transactions with the Post Office Saving Bank will be supplied to depositors gratuitously. 12.--_Official Secrets._ The officials of the Post Office Savings Bank are bound by duty to keep the business and official secrets and it is strictly forbidden to them, beyond their superiors, to impart to any persons whatever, knowledge of any kind relating either to the names of depositors or the the amount of the sums deposited or withdrawn, or to the amount of balances. Those who contravene this rule will undergo disciplinary treatment, and, according to the circumstances, will be dismissed from the service. Every depositor may therefore rely on the strictest secrecy with relation to his business transactions with the Post Office Savings Bank, not only with reference to the usual Post Office Savings Service, but also with regard to the business in the Public Funds. POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANK. _The Director_, WACEK. FOOTNOTES: [N] _Reichs-Gesetz-Blatt._ Collection of the Imperial Laws. [O] _According to the altered form of the law of November 19^{th} 1887._ The earlier form of Article 5 ran thus: Each depositor will receive from the receiving office (Post office) where he pays in his first deposit, a deposit book in which each amount paid in, each amount paid back, and the interest added to the capital is to be entered. Each subsequent payment can be made at any receiving office (Post office), the amount being entered in the deposit book. That person is to be considered the depositor on whose behalf the deposit is made. The deposit book is to be delivered gratuitously and stamp-free. The Post Office Savings Bank will open an account for each depositor. [P] _According to the altered form of the law of November 19^{th} 1887._ The earlier form of Article 6 ran thus: