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POST OFFICE REGULATIONS.
the public are allowed to prepay foreign and colonial
letters, to purchase postage stamps, and to have let-
ters registered ; and all other duties are performed as
usual, except Money Order and SaviDgs Bank busi-
ness, -which on thai day is wholly suspended.
23. Sacramental Fast Days. — On the Sacramental
Fast Days there are two deliveries by Letter Carriers,
commencing at 7 and 8 a.m. respectively, and letters
are delivered to Private Box holders and to strangers
from 7 to 10 a.m. The Paid Letter Office is again
opened for the sale of postage stamps and registration
of letters, from 4 to 8 p.m.
Penalties for sending Letters otherwise than throvgh
the Post.
23. Any person conveying (otherwise than by
the Post) a letter not exempted from the exclusive
privilege of the postmaster-general incurs, by law, a
penalty of £5 for every letter, and £100 for every
-week the practice is continued. The sender also is
liable to a penalty of £5 for every letter.
Exceptions.
24. The exclusive privilege of the postmaster-
general is confined strictly to letters, and does not
therefore extend to newspapers, books, or money;
any of which may be legally conveyed by other
means. The following kinds of letters also need not
be sent through the post : —
§ 1. Letters sent by a private friend, to be de-
livered by such friend to the person to whom they
shall be directed.
§ 2. Letters sent by a messenger on purpose, con-
cerning the private affairs of the sender or receiver
thereof; commissions or returns thereof, and affidavits
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
merchandize, or of the cargo or loading therein, sent
by such vessels of merchandize, 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 pacing or receiving reward
or profit for the same in anywise.
§ 5. Letters concerning goods or merchandize 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.
25. No person, however, is authorised to make a
collection of such excepted letters for the purpose of
sending them in the manner above described.
26. The following persons are expressly forbidden
to carry a letter, or to receive or collect or deliver a
letter, even though they shall not receive hire or
reward for the same: —
§ 1. 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.
§ 2. Owners, masters, or commanders of ships,
vessels, steam-boats, 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.
§ 3. Passengers or other persons on board any
such ships, vessels, steam-boats, passage or packet
boat.
§ 4. 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 Her Majesty's
dominions.
POST OFFICE TELEGEAPHS.
1 . The charge for telegrams throughout the United
Kingdom, including the Channel Islands and the
Isle of Man, but excepting the Scilly, Orkney, and
Shetland Islands, is Is. for the first 20 words, and
3d. for every additional five words, i.e., for every
additional group of not more than five words*; the
names and addresses of the sender and receiver not
being counted.
2. The charge for telegrams to the Scilly Islands
is 3s. 6d. for the first 20 words, and 9d. for every
additional five words ; and to the Orkney and Shet-
land Islands, is Gs. for the first 20 words, and Is. 6d.
for every additional five words ; except to Moss Bank,
Culla Voe, Uya Sound, and Balta Sound, in Shet-
land, the rates to which are 7s. for the first 20 word3,
and Is. 9d. for every additional five words.
3. The charges for Press telegrams are Is. for
every 100 words, or portion of 100 -words, handed
in between the hours of 6 p.m. and 9 a.m., and Is.
for every 75 words, or portion of 75 words, handed in
between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., with an
additional charge of 2d. per 100, or 2d. per 75 words,
as the case may be, for the same telegram to every
additional address.
4. The inland telegram forms are of two kinds,
namely, the "A 1 " form, embossed with a stamp of
the value of a Is., and the 'A" form (given gratis),
with no stamp embossed thereon. The " A 1 forms "
may be purchased singly or in any number. They
may also be had bound up into books of 20 forms ;
price 20s.
5. Interleaved books of stamped telegram forms
bearing the name and address of the sender (and of
the receiver, if required), printed on each form are
supplied free of extra cost, if not less than 500 of
such stamped forms (value £25) are taken at a time.
6. Stamped telegraph cards are also issued to the
public at the rate of Is. for each card, or in packets
containing 20 cards at £1 per packet.
7. When the terminal telegraph office, i.e., the
office from which the message is delivered, is a Head
Post Office, the amount paid for the transmission of
a message covers the cost of delivery within the town
postal delivery of that office. But when it is not a
Head Post Office, the message is delivered free only
within a radius from it of one mile.
8. When the addressee resides beyond the above
described limits, porterage is charged at the rate of
6d. per double mile (that is, a mile out and a mile
back), or any part thereof, provided the whole dis-
tance to be traversed does not exceed three miles out
and three miles back ; but the charge is calculated
from the boundary of the district within which no
porterage is levied. For instance, if the addressee's
residence is a mile and a quarter from the terminal
* A similar interpretation is to be put upon the phrase
" every additional— words," wherever such phrase occurs.