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Senior Clerk. 1st. clerk.
Attends from 10 to 4 on ordinary days; on outward mail days from 9 a.m. also attends whenever contract mails arrive.
Duties.-
General supervision of the office. Reading up of 'Town' letters and sending out of postmen.
Sorting.
Making up of Boxholder's accounts, monthly.
Counting of stamps and cash in the compradore's hands, monthly.
Poste restante list weekly.
Fill up time schedules of French, German, American and Canadian mails.
On arrival of contract mails,
Send for officers; put out time of delivery; telegraph to Macao in the case of British & French packets from Europe, see that the carts are sent to the wharf; sort 'Town' portion of mail (English & French); deliver at window; read up 'Town' for delivery; enter arrival in contract mail arrival book.
On departure of contract mails,-
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