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Letter Postage.
For a single letter, sent not exceeding 3000 miles,
if prepaid, 3 cts.; if not prepaid, 5 cts. Sent over
3000 miles, if prepaid, 6 cts.; if not prepaid, 12 cts.
For such a letter, conveyed wholly or in part by
sea to or from a foreign country, (except all cases
where different rates have been or shall be estab-
lished by postal arrangements,) sent not exceed-
ing 2500 miles, 10 cents ; over 2500 miles, 20 cts.
For a double letter there shall be charged double
the above rates ; for a treble letter treble the above
rates, &c., &c. Every letter or parcel, not exceed-
ing half an ounce (avoirdupois) in weight, is a sin-
gle letter, and every additional weight of half an
ounce, or of less than half an ounce, is charged
with an additional single postage. When adver-
tised, one cent additional is charged on each letter.
For a letter delivered by a carrier, there is an addi-
tional charge of not exceeding one or two cents.
For drop letters, (not to be mailed,) each 1 cent.
For all letters or pkgs. {ship letters) conveyed by
any vessels not employed in conveying the mail, 2
cts. To this charge of 2 cts. is added 4 cts. when the
letters are not transmitted through the mail, but are
delivered at the post office where deposited; and
the ordinary rates of U. States postage are added
when the letter is transmitted through the mails. |
Newspaper, Pamphlet, and Book Postage.
1. Newspapers, periodicals, unsealed circulars,
and other printed matter, weighing not over three
ounces, pay 1 cent each, to any part of the U. S.,
or half that rate, paid quarterly or yearly, in ad-
vance. The same kind of matter, weighing not
over one and a half ounces, half the above rates.
2. Newspapers, &c., not weighing more than 1^
ounces, can be sent to any part of the state where
published at half the above rates, i. e., for half a
cent not prepaid, and a quarter of a cent if prepaid.
3. Small newspapers, periodicals, and printed
sheets, in pkgs. of 8 ounces, at least, to one address,
if prepaid, 4are to pay but half a cent per ounce.
4. Transient matter must be prepaid, or charged
double postage, or 2 cents for every sheet.
5. Weekly newspapers free in co. of publication.
6. Bills for newspapers, and receipts for payments
of moneys therefor, may be enclosed in subscribers'
papers, but nothing else, and no writing or print-
ing, inside or outside, except the address, under
penalty of paying letter postage.
7. Exchanges between newspaper publishers free.
8. Books, bound or unbound, of not more than
four pounds each, 1 cent per ounce, under 3000
miles, and 2 cents over that distance. Fifty per
cent, to be added where not prepaid. |
