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POST-OFFICE REGULATIONS.
tain a single Volume onty (whether
Printed Book, Magazine, Review, or
Pamphlet). 3rd, It must not exceed two
feet in length, breadth, or depth. 4th, It
must have no writing or marks upon the
cover, or its contents, except the name
and address of the person to whom it may
be sent. 5th, The Postage must be pre-
paid in full, by affixing outside the
Packet or its cover the proper amount of
Stamps.
Periodicals, unstamped, and not of daily
publication, and Pamphlets, if under 1G
oz. in weight, and printed in the language
of the country from which they are sent,
and containing only a single number of
any periodical work, or a single Pamphlet
in one cover, may be forwarded to, or re-
ceived from, the United States, France,
Prussia, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, and
Hamburg ; Bremen, Lubec, and Olden-
burg, at the following rates, which must
be prepaid when sent from this country : — -
Not exceeding 2 oz., Id. ; above 2 and
under 3 oz., 6d. ; above 3 and under 4
oz., 8d., &c, 2d. being added for every
additional oz. Pamphlets (not being
Periodicals), when sent to the United
States, must not exceed 8 oz.
The following Instructions have been ad-
dressed to all Postmasters, and are
strictly acted vpon: —
"General Post-Office.— On and
after 1st January, 1845, should any
Letter or Packet be tendered at your
Office, which you raay ascertain to con-
tain, or iclucli you have every reason to be-
lieve contains any of the following articles,
viz. : — Any ^Glass or Glass Bottle; any
Razor, Scissors, Knife, Fork, or other
Sharp or Pointed Instrument; any Leeches,
Game, Fish, Flesh, Fruit, Vegetables, or
other perishable substance; any Bladder
or other Vessel containing Liquid; or any
article, matter, or thing whatsoever, which
might, by pressure or otherwise, be ren-
dered injurious either to the Officers of the
Post-Office, or to the contents of the Mail
Bags, you will refuse to receive mch Letter
or Packet.
" In the event of am- Letter or Packet
being taken in by you, and you do not
until afterwards discover that it contains
any article as above described, or should
any such Letter or Packet be deposited in
the Letter-Box, you will not forward it on
to its destination, but you will detain it in
your office, and inform me hy the first
Post of the circumstances, stating the
precise address of the Letter or Packet,
and its contents, or what you suppose
them to be, when proper steps will be
taken in this department in the case, and
you will be instructed in what manner to-
dispose of the Letter or Packet.
" Should any Letter or Packet, con-
taining any article as before-mentioned,
not be discovered by the Postmaster at
whose office it may be posted, but be for-
warded on to its destination, the Receiving
Postmaster to whose town it may be ad-
dressed, upon discovering, or having every
reason to believe, that its contents are
such as those alluded to, will not send it
out for delivery, but will detain it in his
office, reporting the circumstance by the
first Post, and stating the nature of its
contents, when he will be duly instructed
in what manner to dispose of it."
NEWSPAPERS AND SUPPLEMENTS
TO NEWSPAPERS.
All newspapers must be sent in covers,
open at the sides, and no words or com-
munication may be printed or written on
such papers or covers, after the same
shall have been published, other than the
name and address of the person to whom
they are sent ; nor anything enclosed or
concealed in cither newspaper or cover.
Newsvenders only may print their names
and addresses thereon. Newspapers may-
be examined by the Officers of the Post-
Office ; and if there be any breach of the
above regulations, the packet is charge-
able with treble the amount of Postage to
which a letter of the same weight would
have been liable. Any person contraven-
ing the law, may, at the option of the
Postmaster-General, be prosecuted as for
a misdemeanour.
Clause of the Act of 1st Victoria, cap. 34,
sec. 32.
" And be it farther enacted, that in all
cases in which a question shall arise,
whether a printed paper is entitled to the
privileges of a Newspaper or other publi-
cation, hereby privileged, so far as respects
the transmission thereof by the Post, under
the Post-Office Acts, the question shall
be referred to the determination of the
Postmaster-General, whose decision, with
the concurrence of the Lords of the Trea-
sury, shall be final.
MARKS OR WRITING ON NEWSPAPERS.
Writing or marks are allowed on a
Neiospaper passing by Post between any
one part of the United Kingdom and any
other part, provided that a postage of one
penny be paid, b} r means of a stamp con-
spicuously fixed outside the cover or
folded Newspaper. But the privilege is