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POST OFFICE REGULATIONS.
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4th. 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.
6th. 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.
30. No person, however, is authorized to make a
collection of such excepted letters for the purpose of
sending them in the manner above described.
31. 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: —
1st. 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.
2nd. 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.
3rd. Passengers or other persons on board any such
ships, vessels, steam-boats, passage or packet boat.
4th. 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.
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL MAILS.
Foreign and Colonial Letters.
1. The rates of postage on letters for foreign
countries and the colonies will be found in the Table
of Foreign and Colonial Postage.
2. Prepayment is compulsory in those cases where
the letter " c " is prefixed to the rates of postage ;
In some countries (a) an additional postage (which
cannot be prepaid) is charged on delivery.
8. Letters posted unpaid, or insufficiently paid
for, to any country where prepayment is compulsory,
are returned to the writers.
4. Letters posted unpaid, or insufficiently paid, for
Australia, New Zealand, Cape Colony, or Natal,
are charged 6d. each in addition to the deficient
postage ; and those to or from St. Helena are charged
double the amount of the deficient postage.
5. Unpaid letters to or from countries in the
Postal Union are charged double the prepaid rate,
and those partially prepaid are charged with double
the deficiency.
6. Routes. — Letters not specially directed to go
by a particular route are forwarded by the first mail
despatched.
7. Letters, &c., for Brazil, Uruguay, the Argentine
Republic, Falkland Islands, and Chili (also for Peru
and Bolivia, if specially addressed), posted in time
for despatch from London by the Night Mail on
alternate Saturdays, will in due course overtake at
Lisbon the Packet despatched from Liverpool oa
the previous Wednesday.
8. The addresses of letters for Russia should be
very plainly written ; the name of the town, and of
the province in which it is situated, should also be
added in English, French, or German.
Foreign and Colonial Newspapers.
1. The rates of postage, loliich must he prepaid, to
foreign countries and the colonies on newspapers regis-
tered for transmission abroad will be found in the
Table of Foreign and Colonial Postage.
2. The conditions of registration for transmission
abroad are the same as those for inland transmission ;
excepting that for foreign transmission a newspaper
may be published at intervals of thirty-one days.
Moreover, prices current and market reports (but not
private price lists or trade catalogues) may lie regis-
tered as newspapers for foreign transmission, provided
that they be published at intervals not exceeding
thirty-one days.
3. All publications registered for transmission
abroad must be posted within eight days from the daij
of publication, including that day; and any news-
paper posted more than eight days after the date of
publication, as well as any unregistered publication,
must be prepaid at the book rate of postage.
4. The collected numbers issued during the month
of a weekly or fortnightly publication are not allowed,
to pass as a monthly publication.
5. Newspaper, whether posted in covers or without
covers, must not be fastened so as to prevent easy
withdrawal for examination.
(J. Every newspaper must be so folded as to admit
of the title being readily inspected.
7. No newspaper, whether posted singly or in a
packet, may contain any enclosure except the supple-
ment or supplements belonging to it.
8. There must be no writing or other marks on a
newspaper sent abroad but the name and address of
the person to wliom it is sent; nor anything on the
cover but such name and address, the printed title of
the publication, the printed name and address of the
publisher or vendor who sends it, and words indicating
the date on which the subscription to the newspaper
will end.
9. No packet of newspapers for countries of the
Postal Union may exceed 18 inches in length or one
foot in width or depth, or for other places abroad 2
feet in length or one foot in width or depth. The
limit of weight, which is not the same to all countries,
is stated in the heading of the Table of Colonial and
Foreign Postage.
10. An internal tax of two kreuzer, which is not
a postal charge, is made by the Austro-Hungarian
Government on the delivery of all newspapers
reaching the Empire from other countries.
Foreign and Colonial Booh Post.
1. Articles which may be sent to places abroad
under the Book Post Regulations consist of tw»
classes, as follows : —
1st. Commercial Papers, under which are comprised
all papers or documents written or drawn wholly or
partly by hand (except letters or communications in
the nature of letters, or other papers or documents
having the character of an actual and personal cor-
respondence), documents of legal procedure, Deeds
drawn up by public functionaries copies of, or extracts