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RATES 01 POSTAGE.

mailing or delivery—commencing at any time, and to be accounted for
in the quarter in which it is received.

No law was passed by Congress compelling subscribers to regular
newspapers, etc., to pay quarterly postage in the mailing office in ad-
vance, after July 1, 1873. They may pay at either office after July 1, as
now.

When a subscriber to a paper or periodical shows a receipt for post-
age paid at his former residence for one or more quarters in advance,
the publication should be delivered to him for the unexpired time paid
for, provided it is mailed direct from the office of publication and not
remailed from his former residence. If remailed from his former resi-
dence (without prepayment of postage), double transient rates must be
collected on delivery.

Newspapers of small size, issued less frequently than once a week,
may be sent in packages to one address at the rate of one cent for each
package not exceeding four ounces in weight. The postage to be paid
quarterly or yearly in advance.

When packages of newspapers are received at a post-office directed to
one address and the names of the subscribers to whom they belong,
with the postage for a quarter in advance, is handed to a postmaster, he
should deliver them accordingly, provided they are properly folded.

Newspapers having writing on their margins are subject to letter
postage, and postmasters should collect postage at letter rates on all pa-
pers having writing on them when found in the mails.

The following are the quarterly rates of postage, when paid quarterly
or yearly in advance, on newspapers and periodicals issued less fre-
quently than once a week, and sent to actual subscribers from a known
office of publication:

Newspapers, magazines, and other periodical publications, each:

Not exceeding four ounces in weight, sent to any part of the United
States—semi-monthly, 6 cents; monthly, 3 cents; quarterly, 1 cent.

Exceeding 4 ounces and not exceeding 8 ounces—semi-monthly, 12
cents; monthly, 6 cents; quarterly, 2 cents.

Exceeding 8 ounces and not exceeding 12 ounces—semi-monthly, 18
cents; monthly, 9 cents; quarterly, 3 cents.

Pamphlets, occasional publications, transient newspapers, maga-
zines, kand-bills, posters, unsealed circulars, prospectuses, book-manu-
scripts, proof sheets, corrected proof-sheets, maps, prints, engravings,
blanks, flexible patterns, sample cards, phonographic paper, letter en-
velopes, postal envelopes and wrappers, cards, plain and ornamental
paper, photographic representations of different types, seeds, cuttings,
bulbs, roots, scions, and all other matter, which may be declared mail-
able by law, and all other articles not above the weight prescribed
by law, which are not, from their form or nature, liable to destroy, de-
face, or otherwise injure the contents of the mail-bag, or the person of
any one engaged in the postal service, may be sent by mail, prepaid by
stamps at the rate of 1 cent for each two ounces or fractional part there-
of, but books, samples of metals, ores, minerals and merchandise,