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POST OFFICE REGULATIONS.
orders may be served later than the 15th, may be
posted after the 12th of that month.
4th. The Postage chargeable on these notices and
the registration fee of sixpence on each must be pre-
paid either in money or stamps.
5th. The notices must be posted at the Post Office
window, accompanied with duplicate lists of the
addresses ; the notices being arranged, for the con-
venience of comparison, in the order of the list.
These lists are examined by the officer in attendance
at the window ; and if each list correspond with the
addresses, he will sign and stamp every sheet of each
list. One of the duplicate lists will then be returned
to the person who brought the letters, and the other
forwarded to the Secretary, General Post Office,
London.
18. The hours for receiving both parliamentary
notices and the under- mentioned voting notices are
the same as those for the registry of ordinary letters,
unless the parliamentary notices be presented at such
a time as to interfere with the ordinary duties of
the office ; in which case the Postmaster may appoint
any other time within the next twenty -four hours
for receiving the same; Provided that, when the
notices are to be served on or before the loth Dec,
such arrangement do not delay the posting beyond
the 12th.
19. Whoever sends parliamentary notices, should,
if possible, arrange on the day before with the Post-
master as to the most convenient time for posting
them, and state the probable number.
20. On prepayment of the postage and of a regis-
tration fee of twopence, either in money or stamps,
a notice belonging to anj' one of the classes enu-
merated in the Act 6 Vict. c. 18 (relating to votes
for members of Parliament) can be sent through the
post with the securities for their safe delivery
enjoined by law, provided it be brought duly directed,
open and in duplicate, to a Postmaster of an office
where money-orders are issued or paid.* On re-
ceiving the notice, the Postmaster has to compare it
with the duplicate, and if the two agree the latter
will be stamped and returned to the bearer.
21. "When a poll-book is presented by any re-
turning officer to be forwarded by post, the Post-
master is required to give to such officer an acknow-
ledgment thereof in writing, stating therein the time
when he received it.
22. No registration fee is demanded for poll-
books, and the prepayment of the postage is optional,
without regard to weight or size,
POSTAGE STAMPS.
23. Every Postmaster and Letter PLeceiver is re-
quired to have on hand a sufficient stock of postage
labels and penny stamped envelopes, and to sell
them to the public at the following prices : —
Stamped Labels.
Penny Labels Id. each.
Twopenny do 2d. each.
Fourpenny do 4d. each.
Sixpenny do 6d. each.
Shillingdo Is. each.
* The posting of these notices is confined strictly to
Post Offices where money-order bnsinesa can be trans-
acted ; consequently, whenever such power is suspended
at any office, none of these notices can there he received.
Stamped Penny Envelopes.
* 12 to be sold for Is. Ijd.
8 „ Os. 9d.
6 „ Os. 6|d.
4 „ Os. 4id.
2 „ Os. 2|d
1 „ Os. lid.
Two kinds of stamp envelopes are now issTied ;
one with a thread passing through the stamp, and
the other without any thread, but made with thicker
and better paper. Everj' person can have the kind
he prefers.
24. Every Rural Messenger is authorized to sell
postage labels and stamped envelopes at the same
prices at which Postmasters are empowered to sell
them, and when any person applies to him for such
labels the Messenger must either supply them, or (if
he have none in his possession) he must, without
extra charge, receive the postage in money, and, on
his arrival at the Post Office, obtain stamps for it,
and affix them carefully to the letters.
25. Prepayment of inland letters, &c. must be b3-
stamps.t except at the Chief Post Office, London,
where prepayment of such letters from 10 a.m. to
5 p.m. is permitted in money, provided the amount
be not less than £1. Letters also to the colonies
and foreign countries may be prepaid in monej'.
Except in the case of letters posted in Malta, Gib-
raltar, Constantinople, the British colonies in the
West Indies, under the control of the Postmaster-
General, and by sailors in Her Majesty's service,
British postage stamps are not available for the
payment of letters, &c., coming into the country.
26. When adhesive stamps are used, they should
be examined to see that they firmly adhere, since
if they fall off, the letters, &c., will be charged with
postage, which in the case of inland letters, is double
the prepaid rate. To some places abroad also, double
the prepaid rate is chargeable in such cases; and
in other instances the letters, &c. are liable to be
detained for the deficient postage. The stamps
should be placed on the front of the letter, and upon
the right hand corner of the upper side.
27. Arrangements have been made by which
paper and envelopes taken by the public to the
Office of Inland Revenue, &c., Somerset House, can
be impressed with postage stamps under the follow-
ing regulations : —
1st. When the stamps required do not amount to
£10; Is. is charged, in addition to the postage
stamps, for each distinct size of paper.
2d. When the stamps amount to £10, no fee is
charged, provided one size of paper only be sent.
3d. When the stamps amount to £20, no fee is
charged, provided not more than two sizes of paper
be sent.
4th. When the stamps amount to £30, no fee is
charged, provided not more than three sizes of paper
be sent.
5th. When the stamps amount to £40, no fee is
charged, provided four sizes of paper only be sent,
and no more than four sizes can be received on a
single warrant.
» Every complete dozen, or any larger number, must
be charged at the same rate.
+ Payment in stamps must always he made by atfixing
outside the letter, &e., before it is posted, a number of
stamps equal in value to the amount of postage.