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Railway companies to be subject to directions of Post Office respecting conveyance of mails
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5. For the greater security of the mails or post letter bags so to be carried or conveyed by railways the company of proprietors of such respective railways along which such mails or post letter bags, mail coaches, or carts and carriages for sorting letters shall be so required by the postmaster general to be conveyed, and their respective officers, servants, and agents, shall obey, observe, and perform all such reasonable regulations respecting the conveyance, delivering, and leaving of such mails and post letter bags, guards and officers of the Post Office, mail coaches, or carts and carriages, on any such railways, or on the line thereof, as the postmaster general, or such officer of the Post Office as he shall nominate in that behalf, shall in his discretion from time to time give or make: Provided always, that it shall not be lawful for any officer or servant of the Post Office to interfere with or give orders to the engineer or other person having the charge of any engine upon any railway along which mails or post letter bags shall be conveyed; but if any cause of complaint shall arise, the same shall be stated to the conductor or other officer of the railway company having the charge of the train, or to the chief officer at any station upon the railway; and in case of any default or neglect on the part of any officers or servants of the railway company to comply with any of the regulations of the postmaster general or other officer of the Post Office so to be nominated as aforesaid, the railway company shall be wholly responsible for the same.
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