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POST OFFICE REGULATIONS.
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Exceptional Rates of' Postage on Newspapers. — Continued.
COUXTISIES, &C.
fServia,
'Spain, Balearic, and Canary Islands, ,
Surinam, via Southampton,
" by French Packet,
I Sweden, via Denmark,
Switzerland,
Syria (French Offices), by French Packet,.,
Turkey, " "
t " via France and Austria,
via Belgium,.
Tarjgiers and Tunis, by French Packet,
United States of America,
Venezuela,
fWallachia, via France and Austria
t " via Belgium,
'Wurtemberg, via France,
'Countries, via France, not mentioned in
this list,..
Azores, ) by Packet or Private
< 'ape de Verds, ' Ship,
Madeira, ("via Fiance or by French
Portugal, ) Packet
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The postage on Newspapers for all other places is a fixed sum, and is given in the table of Colonial and Foreign
Postages. At the option of the sender, Registered Newspapers may be forwarded as Book Packets.
PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.
10. Parliamentary proceedings circulated inland.
— Postage. — Printed proceedings of the Imperial
Parliament, sent without covers, or in covers open
at the ends, may circulate within the United King-
dom at the rate of one penny for every quarter of a
pound, or fraction of a quarter of a pound.
The words " Parliamentary Proceedings " must be
written or printed on the cover of the packet, other-
wise it is treated as an ordinary book packet.
Prepayment optional. — Prepayment, when the cir-
culation is within the United Kingdom, is optional ;
and if it be made in part, the simple difference only
is charged.
Parliamentary Proceedings, <yc, sent abroad.—
Parliamentary proceedings may be sent, under the
Book Post privilege, to all the Colonies, and to those
Foreign States between which and this country there
is a book post.
Booh Post, including (when the foregoing special
privileges are not claimed) Newspapers and other
periodical publications, and also Parliamentary
Proceedings.
11. Inland Booh Post, Sfc. — The following are the
regulations of the Inland Book Post: —
§ 1. The postage is Id. for every quarter of a
pound, or traction of a quarter of a pound.*
§ 2. The postage must be prepaid by means of
* If the weight be exceeded to the smallest extent,
even though the balance be merely turned, the book or
printed paper becomes liable to a higher postage. To
provide therefore for errors in scales, &c, it is well to
allow a little margin, or to pay the postage of the next
greater weight. It should be remembered that a news-
paper when wet weighs more than when dry. Forget-
fulness on this point sometimes causes groundless com-
plaints about charges for newspapers; the complainant
having erroneously supposed, on weighing the newspaper
on its arrival, and when it had had time to dry, that he
had been overcharged. The foregoing observations apply
also to books, &c, sent abroad.
postage stamps affixed outside the packet or its
cover. If the whole postage be not thus prepaid, the
packet is treated in the manner described in § 9.
§ 3. Every packet must be sent either without a
cover, or in a cover open at the ends or sides, so as
to admit of the inclosures being removed for exami-
nation. For the greater security of its contents, the
packet may be tied at the end with a string; but in
such case the officers of the Post Office are authorized
to cut the string, although, if they do so, they are
required to refasten the packet.
§ 4. A book packet may contain any number of
separate books or other publications (including
printed or lithographed letters), photographs when
not on glass or in cases containing glass, prints, or
maps, and any quantity of paper, parchment, or
vellum; and the books or other publications, prints,
maps, &c, may be either printed, written, engraved,
lithographed, or plain, or any mixture of these ; no
other material is allowed than paper, parchment, or
vellum (except in the case of printed books or pub-
lications, commonly called "indestructible)," artistic
prints and maps, architectural drawings, plans and
tracings, which may be printed or written upon
canvas or cloth. Further, all legitimate binding,
mounting, or covering of a book, &c, or of a portion
thereof, is allowed, whether such binding, &c, be
loose or attached ; as also rollers, in the case of
prints or maps, markers (whether of paper or other-
wise), in the case of books, and, in short, whatever
is necessary for the safe transmission of such articles,
or usually appertains thereto; but the binding, &c,
must not be sent as a separate packet, nor can
patterns or books of patterns (unless these consist
merely of paper), be permitted.
§ 5. No book packet may contain anything which
is sealed or otherwise closed against inspection; nor
must there be any letter, or any communication of
the nature of a letter, whether separate or otherwise,
unless the whole of such letter or communication be