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POSTAGE DIRECTORY— RATES.
IV. Letters for Austria, Baden, Bavaria, and
Wurtemburg, if insufficiently paid for trans-
mission via France, but sufficiently paid to
be sent via. Belgium, are forwarded by the
latter route.
UNITED STATES AND HOLLAND.
Periodicals not of dailj' publication, issued in the
shape of pamphlets, may be sent to the United
States, California, and Oregon, by packet, and to
Holland, via Belgium, and by private ship, at the
following rates : — Not exceeding 2 oz.. Id. ; above
2 oz., but not exceeding 3 oz., 6d. ; above 3 oz., but
not exceeding 4 oz., 8d. ; ■with an addition of 2d. for
eveiy additional ounce up to 16 ounces, above 'which
weight the privilege does not extend. At the same
rate of postage, any pamphlet not weighing more
than 8 oz. (even though it be not a periodical pub-
lication) may be sent to the United States, California,
and Oregon, as may also parliamentary proceedings
to Holland, and (in the latter case) without limit of
weight. This postage is only the British portion,
a further sum being charged on delivery. The
periodical works or pamplilets must always be sent
in a cover open at the ends (not more than one
being sent in a single cover), and the postage must
be prepaid. Other printed papers or books (except
those specified above), addressed to the places above
named, are liable to letter rate of postage. There
must be no writing or other marks upon such peri-
odical works, pamphlets, etc., or upon the covers,
except the names and addresses of the persons to
whom they are sent; nor upon the covers must there
be any printing except the names and addresses of
the persons to whom they are sent, and the names
and addresses of the senders. Any other writing,
etc., will render the i3ackets liable to letter rates of
postage.
PEUSSLA. AND THE GEEMAN POSTAL
UNION GENERALLY.
According to the regulations of the German
Postal Union, no letter exceeding 50 grammes (a
little more than IJ oz.) in weight, and containing
any other enclosure than paper, can be allowed to
circulate by the post. Any letters, therefore, for-
warded in the mail to Prussia above that weight,
and containing any other enclosure than paper, will
be liable, on their arrival at the Prussian frontier,
to be stopped, and sent to the Custom House for
delivery a,s freight.
TRANSMISSION OF JEWELLERY, ETC., TO
SPAIN, TURKEY, AND COSTA RICA.
The laws of Spain forbid the transmission by the
post within that country of letters or other packets
containing watches, jewellery, or other articles of
value, which are liable to Customs duties. Any
such packets, therefore, which may be forwarded in
the mails to Spain wUl not be delivered, but will be
sent back from the frontier. A similar prohibition,
on pain of forfeitm-e, is placed upon the transmis-
sion of diamonds and other Jewels to the Turkish
Empire, and of money and jewelleiy to the Eepubhc
of Costa Pica.
REGISTRATION OF LETTERS, ETC.
The fee chargeable for registering a letter, in
addition to the ordinary postage, both of which 7nust
he prepaid^ or the letter cannot be registered, wiU be
found against each country or place in the Table of
Colonial and Foreign Postage.
Where the prefix 'm' is made use of in the
column of fees in the Table of Colonial and Foreign
Postage, the letter can be registered only to the
port of arrival ; it being left in those cases to the
postal authorities of the colony or foreign country
to continue the registration if they think proper.
Where the word ' none ' appears, no registration
can be effected.
France and Countries through France. — The regis-
tration fee upon letters addi-essed to France or
countries through France {exclvsive of those sent in
the closed mails to India, Hong Kong, Ceylon, Mav-
ritius, Australia, Gibraltar, via France, Malta, Con-
stantinople, Austria, Portugal, Spain, or Italy, except
the Papal States) is not a fixed sum, but is in all
cases equal to the postage.
LETTERS BY PRIVATE SHIPS.
Letters intended to be sent by private ship must
be addressed ' By Private Ship ;' and if by a par-
ticular vessel, the name of the ship must be added.
The postage of a letter by a private ship to Belgium,
Belize, and the British West Indies, is 3d. not ex-
ceeding ^ oz., and 3d. is charged in the case of
heavy letters for every additional ^ oz. ; to Norway,
the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, St Helena, and
Ascension, the postage is 4d. not exceeding ^ oz.,
and 4d. is charged for eveiy additional \ oz. ; to
France, 4d. is charged for eveiy J oz. ; to Holland,
8d. not exceeding \ oz.. Is. 4d. not exceeding 1 oz.,
2s. 8d. not exceeding 2 oz., and Is. 4d. for every
additional ounce ; in all other cases, the single rate
is 6d., and the postage for heavy letters progresses
in the same manner as the postage of letters sent by
mail packets. Letters may be sent unpaid to the
following places, viz. : Azores, Belgium, Belize,
British West Indies, Canada, Cape de Verds, Cape
of Good Hope, Ceylon, Falkland ; Islands, France
and Algeria, Gold Coast, Holland, Hong Kong,
India, Madeira, Mauritius, Natal, New Bmnswick,
Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Portugal, Prince Ed-
ward Island, St Helena, and Sierra Leone; but to
all other places prepayment is compulsoiy. Letters
sent by private ship to the United States cannot be
registered.
Newspapers by private ships to the Azores, Cape
de Verds, Madeu-a, and Portugal, are charged 2d.
each ; in all other cases they are charged Id. each.
HOT CLIMATES.
The practice of sealing letters passing to and from
the East and West Indies, and other counti-ies with
hot climates, with wax (except such as is specially
prepared), is attended vrith much inconvenience, and
frequently with serious injmy, not only to the letters
so sealed, but to the other letters in the mail, from
the melting of the wax and adhesion of the letters
to each other. The public are therefore recom-
mended in all such cases to use either wafers or
gmn, a.nd to advise their correspondents in the
countries referred to to do the same.
PREPAYMENT, ETC.
Letters addressed to places abroad may be pre-
paid ra this countiy either in money or stamps, but
such payment must be wholly in stamps or wholly
in money. Newspapers, book packets, and patterns
must always be prepaid, and this by stamps.
With certain exceptions, the only admitted evi-
dence of the prepayment of a letter, inwards, is
the mark agreed upon with the particular foreign
country or colony.
Naval officers, marines, and seamen serving abroad,
are allowed to prepay such of their letters as are
conveyed in their ship's bag with English postage
stamps.
When prepayment is optional, any outward letter