In the Senate of the United States. May 15, 1872. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Gilbert submitted the following report. The Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, to whom, at the first session of the Forty-second Congress, was referred S. 213, a bill authorizing the Postmaster General to continue in use in the postal service of the United States a machine for postmarking and for the cancellation of postage-stamps, and to make settlement with the inventor, patentee, and assignees thereof for the past and future use of the same by the Post-Office Department... [electronic resource]