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POSTAGE DIKECTORY.
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Shippers, or Consignees of goods, it must also appear by the Ship's Manifest that they
have Goods on board the Vessel. Such persons are entitled to have their Letters which
come within the above Conditions before the Master of the Vessel delivers the other
Letters in his charge to the Post-OflBce.
%* Every Person who shall, with intent to evade any Duty of Postage, falsely super-
scribe a Letter as being the Owner or the Charterer, or the Consignee of a Vessel
conveying the same, or as the Owner, or the Shipper, or the Consignee of Goods
shipped in such Vessel, shall, for every such offence, forfeit Ten Pounds.
LETTERS NOT TO BE SEALED WITH WAX WHEN SENT TO
WARM CLIMATES.
The practice of sealing letters which pass to and from the East Indies, and other
warm climates, with wax, leads to much inconvenience, from the melting of the wax,
and the letters adhering to each other. The public, therefore, are recommended, in all
such cases, to use wafers instead of wax, and to advise their correspondents to do the
same.
ADHESIVE STAMPS AND ENVELOPES.
Stamps may be used to pay Foreign or Colonial Letters outwards, but care must be
taken that, by the addition of such stamps, the letters do not exceed the weight in-
tended to be paid for. In those cases in which the value of the stamps on the letter
is less than the amount of postage chargeable, they will, if prepayment is not com-
pulsory, be forwarded charged with the difference. In cases where the prepayment is
compulsory, they will be sent to the Dead Letter Office, and opened and returned to
the writers for the proper postage. Stamps are not permitted to be used on letters
arriving in the United Kingdom from the colonies or foreign countries. Whenever,
therefore, such letters bear any, thej' will be charged the full rate of postage, without
regard to such stamps. These regulations will be applicable to newspapers in those
cases where they are liable to postage.
NEWSPAPERS AND PRICES CURRENT TO THE COLONIES AND
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Newspapers and Prices Current, duly stamped and authorised, provided the regula-
tions are complied with, and they are posted within seven days of their publication,
may be forwarded to the colonies and to foreign countries, by post-office packets or
private ships. To the British colonies they are forwarded free, except in cases where
the conveyance is by private ship, as also to many foreign countries, which will be
found in the Lists. But to all places to which newspapers are not sent free, the postage
on them must be paid in advance. Newspapers and Prices Current, duly stamped, to
the colonies, by private ship, are charged one penny each. To France, Belgium,
Holland, and countries through Holland, by private ship, one penny each. Chili, Peru,
Guatemala, AVestern Coast of America, Venezuela, St Helena, St Mary's, River Gambia,
Sierra Leone, Cape Coast Castle, Fernando Po, and Ascension Island, one penny each.
All other places not British, by private ship, twopence each, which must be prepaid.
The undermentioned printed PRICES CURRENT having obtained the sanction of
the Lords of the Treasury, pass through the Post- Office to the colonies and foreign
countries at one penny each, provided they contain simply the names and prices of
articles. The names and addresses of the parties dealing in such ariicles must be
excluded : —
Annual Supplement to Prices Current.
British Ships entered inwards and
cleared outwards from and to places
within the limits of the East India
Company's charter.
Commercial Daily List.
Lloyd's List.
London New Price Current.
London Mercantile Price Current.
Mercantile Journal.
Nicholson's New Price Current.
Prince's Price Current.
Sound List.
Trades' List.
Universal Corn Reporter.
Wetenhall's Course of the Exchange.
Each copy to be made up in the same way as a newspaper, with cover open at the sides.
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