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POST OFFICE REGULATIONS.
other packets for the public, though they may do so
af their duty be not thereby impeded.
13. Undelivered Letters. — When the reason for the
non-delivery of a letter, &c., is " Deceased," the
letter is sent, as soon as practicable, to the Returned
Letter Office, as are all letters intended for ships
which have sailed before the arrival of such letters
at tlie port of departure. When the reason is
" Refused," the letter, if an inland one, is retained
at the Post Office for one day only before being
sent to the Returned Letter Office, unless the refusal
be conditional, in which case the letter is kept for
three days, as are all foreign or colonial letters when
refused, and letters, whether inland or foreign, ad-
dressed to persons not known, or gone away. When
the reason is " Not called for " (the letter being
•addressed to a Post Office), the packet is retained
one month ; except in the case of letters at seaports
addressed to persons on board ships expected to arrive
at such ports, which letters are kept three months.
14. Penalties for sending Letters otherwise than
through the Post. — By the Act 1st Victoria, cap. 36,
sect. 2, any person conveying otherwise than by the
Post a letter not exempted from the exclusive privi-
lege of the Postmaster-General, incurs a penalty of
£b for every letter, and £100 for every week the
practice is continued. The sender also incurs a
penaltj' of £5 for every letter, with full costs of suit.
15. Exceptions from exclusive privilege of Post
Office in conveyance of Letters. — The following are
the exceptions granted by the Act 1st Victoria, cap.
33, from the exclusive privilege of the Post Office
in the conveyance of letters : —
§ 1. Letters sent by a private friend, so as such
letters be delivered by such friend to the party to
whom they shall be directed.
§ 2. Letters sent bj' a messenger on purpose, con-
cerning the private affairs of the sender or receiver
thereof; commissions or returns thereof, and affi-
davits and writs, process or proceedings or returns
thereof, issuing out of a court of justice.
§ 3. Letters sent out of the United Kingdom by
a private vessel (not being a packet boat).
§ 4. Letters of merchants, owners of vessels of
merchandise, or of the cargo or loading therein, sent
by such vessels of merchandise, or by any person
-employed by such owners for the carriage of such
letters, according to their respective directions, and
delivered to the respective persons to whom they
shall be directed, without paying or receiving reward
or profit for the same in anywise.
§ 5. Letters concerning goods or merchandise sent
by common carriers, to be delivered with the goods
which such letters concern, without hire or other
advantage for receiving or delivering such letters.
§ 6. No person is authorized to make a collection
of such excepted letters for the purpose of sending
them in the manner above described.
§ 7. The following persons are expressly forbidden
to carry a letter, or to receive or collect or deliver a
better, even though they shall not receive hire or
reward for the same : —
§ 8. Common known carriers, their servants, or
agents, except a letter concerning goods in their
carts or waggons, or on their pack-horses ; and
owners, drivers, or guards of stage-coaches.
§ 9. Owners, masters, or commanders of ships,
vessels, steamboats, or boats called or being passage
or packet-boats, sailing or passing coastwise, or
otherwise between places within Great Britain or
Ireland, or between, to, or from ports within her
Majesty's dominions or territories out of the United
Kingdom, or their servants or agents, except in
respect of letters of merchants, owners of ships, or
goods on board.
§ 10. Passengers or other persons on board any
such ships, vessels, steamboat, passage or packet-
boat.
§ 11. The owners of, or sailors or others on board
a ship or boat passing on a river or navigable canal
within the United Kingdom or other of her Majesty's
dominions.
POST-OFFICE TELEGRAPHS.
Tariff.
1. The charge for the transmission of messages
by telegraph throughout the United Kingdom is one
shilling for the first twenty words, and threepence
for each additional five words or part of five words.
The names and addresses of the sender and receiver
are not charged for.
2. Telegrams may be repeated at the request of
the sender, if he desires to adopt this extra security
against risk of error. The charge for repetition is
one-half the ordinary tariff, fractions of threepence
being reckoned as twopence.
3. The cost of a reply to a telegram may be pre-
paid, and a form of authority will in that case be
delivered to the addressee, who will be at liberty to
send his reply from any Postal Telegraph Station
at any time within two months after the date of the
original message.
4. It is particularly requested that the message
may be written distinctly; numbers and fractions of
numbers must be written in words, and will be
charged for accordingly. For example, " 365 "
should be written " Three hundred and sixty-five"
and " f " should be written " three-eighths.''''
Porterage.
5. If the sender requires the telegram to be for-
warded by post or by train from the Terminal Sta-
tion, he should write the words " By Post " or
" By Train," as the case may be, in the following
space . If, however,
no such instructions be given, it will be delivered
according to circumstances in the following manner,
viz. : — If the addressee resides within one mile of
the Terminal Telegraph Office, or within the limits
of the town postal delivery, the telegram will be
delivered free. Beyond those limits, and if the
whole distance to be traversed be under 3 miles, a
charge of 6d. per mile counting from the delivery
office will be charged ; and if the distance be over 3
miles, the telegram will be delivered by horse express
at the charge of Is. per mile, except in the case of a
telegram to Ireland, where the charge is 8d. a mile.
6. The department is not liable for losses incurred
through the incorrect transmission, delay, or non-
delivery of telegrams.
MONEY OKDEES.
1. Application Forms. — The public are recom-
mended, when applying for Money Orders, to use
printed " Application Forms," which save time, and
afford greater security than verbal messages against
mistakes. These forms are supplied gratuitously
at all Money Order Offices.