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POSTAGE DIEECTORY — MISCELLANEOUS RULES. 493
exLeeding £2, 2s. for any suia above £2 and not exceeding £5, 3s. for any sum above £5 and not
exceeding £7, 4s. for any sum above £7 and not exceeding £10, beyond which amount no single
Order can be granted.
The renewal of a lapsed Colonial Order, the issue of a duplicate Order, or the stoppage of pay-
ment of an Order, will be made on application to the Controller of the Metropolitan Office of the
country in which such Colonial Order is jmyable, provided an additional Inland Hate of Commis-
sion be enclosed with the application ; except in the case of lapsed Orders, when the additional
commission will be deducted from the amount of the new Order issued by the Department ; but the
lapsed Order must be transmitted with the application for its renewal. Postmasters in the United
Eingdom have power to transfer to other offices in the United Kingdom pajTnent of colonial
orders originally drawn on their own offices.
For repayment of the amount of a Money Order, or for the correction of any error respecting
the name of the Payee or Remitter of an Order, the application on the subject, enclosing an addi-
tional Inland rate of Commission, must be addressed to the Controller of the Metropolitan Office
of the country in which such Colonial Order ivas issued.
VI.-MISCELLANEOOS RULES.
With the following exceptions, no letter, &c., can be forwarded by the post which is more than
two feet in lengih, breadth, or depth. The exceptions are —
1. Packets to or from places abroad.
2. Packets to or from any of the Government Offices or Departments, or Public Officers.
3. Petitions or addj-esses to the Queen, whether directed to Her Majesty, or forwarded to any
member of either House of Parliament.
4. Petitions to either House of Parliament, forwarded to any member of either House.
5. Printed Parliamentary proceedings.
No information can be given respecting letters which pass through'a Post-Office except to the per-
sons to whom they are addressed ; and in no other way is official information of a private character
allowed to be made public.
Letters must not be returned to Writers.
Postmasters are not authorised to return any letter, &c., to the writer or sender, or to any one
else, or to delay forwarding it to its destination according to the address, even though a request to
such eiFect be written thereon; as every letter, &c., must be delivered to the person to whom it is
directed, and to him alone.
Late Letters.
Late letters, &c., are received till within five minutes of the despatch of the mails, except in those
large towns where the Surveyor may deem an interval of ten minutes necessary, and excepting that
no office is to be kept open merely for this purpose after ten o'clock at night.
Prepayment of late Letters.
No late letters, &e., must be forwarded by the mail preparing for despatch unless prepaid, aud
that in stamps, so as to include both the ordinary postage and the late-letter fee.
Re-directed Letters, &c.
"With the subjoined exceptions, every re-directed letter, newspaper, or other postal packet, is liable
to an additional postage (at the prepaid rate), unless the re-direction be made by an officer of the
Post-Office, and be within the district belonging to the same Head Office. Thus, on a paid or un-
paid letter, re-directed by an officer of the' Post-Office to any other postal district in the United
Eingdom, and weighing not more than half-an-ounce, an additional postage is levied of one penny;
or if the weight be more than half-an-ounce but does not exceed an ounce, of twopence; and so on.
Upon a book thus re-directed to any other postal district in the United Kingdom, and weighing
not more than four ounces, an additional postage of one penny is levied ; or if the book weigh more
than four ounces but not exceeding eight ounces, an additional postage of twopence; and so on. A
registered letter, when re-directed, is not subject to more additional charge than an ordinary letter.
Letters addressed to commissioned officers in the army, na^y, or ordmmce, employed on actual
service in any of Her Majestj-'s colonies, or on any foreign station, may be re-directed to such officers
when removed iq)07i service (whether at home or abroad), and are delivered to them for the same
amount of postage that would have been chargeable had they been delivered at their original address.
The same privilege extends to the letters of the soldiers and seamen described in the table of Colo-
nial and Foreign Postage, except as regards foreign postage, which must be paid.