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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 7, 1862

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 19, No. 6.

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SPECIAL NOTICE.

By Editor

To Correspondents.—Please notice the following rules. If you will notice them, you will save our Secretary much perplexity and time.
1. State all your business items distinctly, and put them all on a sheet by themselves, or on the last leaf of your letter, so that it may be torn off when the letter is opened.
2. Always, in writing to this Office, give your Post Office, State, and County. If your Post Office be one name and your town another, give both, stating which is which.
3. If you wish your paper changed to another Post Office, first state the name of the person, the Post Office, County, and State where it is sent, then the person, Post Office, County, and State where you wish it sent.
If these simple rules be followed, errors in the business of the Office will be very seldom, and those who have been strangely heedless will not have opportunities to unreasonably and pettishly complain of the Secretary. He is competent for his task, and is a Christian gentleman of fine feelings, and will expect to be treated as such.
The following will illustrate the stupid blunders and complaints he sometimes meets. A note from the West dated Dec. 26, 1861, says:
"Enclosed is $10 to redeem my pledge for a share in the Publishing Association, 50 cents for Vol. xix of Review for Clarissa Owings of Cherry Grove, Mt. Carroll Co., Ills."
But the writer forgot to sign his name; and Dec. 29, 1861, he writes again as follows:
"I sent a letter the 26th containing a draft for $10,50, but did not sign my name. Money has been sent to pay for the Review to Caldwell, Rockford, Ills., and McRay, Mt. Carroll, Ills., but has not been received. I do not see why business matters are so often neglected at the Office. Five times out of ten I have to write twice about the same thing."
But who is this man who has so much trouble with the Review Office? As he does not sign his name to this second letter, we cannot say who it is. When we have Caldwell's and McRay's first names, the papers will be sent and the money receipted. And when the writer will write again and sign his own name, and give his Post Office, &c., as above requested, we will send him a certificate of one share in the stock of the S. D. A. P. Association.