Note 112 — Chapter II · The Power of Congress to Establish Postoffices
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U. S. v. Kochersperger, 26 Fed. Cas. 803 (1860). “In a royal grant of the office of postmaster to foreign parts (July 19, 1632, XIX Rymer’s Foedera, 385) the monopoly is justified by the consideration ‘how much it imports to the state of the King and this realm that the secrets thereof be not disclosed to foreign nations, which cannot be prevented if a promiscuous use of transmitting or taking up of foreign letters and packets should be suffered,’” Freund, Police Power, p. 688, n.