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POST OFFICE REGULATIONS.
LIST OF COUNTRIES WHICH, INT ADDITION TO THE UNITED KINGDOM, ARE
COMPRISED IN THE POSTAL UNION.
*Antigua.
"Argentine Republic.
Australia.
*Austria- Hungary.
*Azores.
*Bahamas.
*Barbadoes.
^Belgium.
Bermuda.
^Bolivia.
* Bosnia.
*Brazil.
British Borneo.
^Britisli Guiana.
*Britisli Honduras,
f Britisli New Guinea.
* Bulgaria.
Cameroons.
*Canada (Dominion of).
Ceylon.
*Chili.
*Colombia, Republic of.
*Congo, including Black
Point, Majumba, and
Nyanza.
*Costa Rica.
Cyprus.
*I)anish Colonies ; viz. —
Greenland, St. Croix, St.
John, and St. Thomas.
*Denmark (including
Faroe Islands and
Iceland).
*Dorainica.
*Dominican Republic (San
Domingo).
*Ecuador.
* Egypt..
Falkland Islands.
*Fiji Islands.
^France.
*French Colonies; viz. —
Martinique, Guadeloupe
& dependencies, French
Guiana(Cayenne),Sene-
gal and dependencies,
Ahgwey, Gaboon, Grand
ing, or otherwise, and anything convenient for their
safe transmission by post which shall be contained
in the same packet; also printeti, engraved, or litho-
graphed circulars, notwithstanding that such circulars
may be letters or communications in the nature of a
letter. On printed visiting cards the address or title
of the sender, or conventional initials such as "p.p.c."
may be written ; and on printed circulars manuscript
corrections and insertions may be made as to names
of commercial travellers, dates of their journey, dates
of departure of ships, names of persons invited to
meetings, and the place, date, and object of the
meetings. Printers' proofs may be corrected in
manuscript, as may also figures in prices current,
stock and share lists, &c. Books, papers, music,
photographs, and engravings may have a dedication
nscribed on them, and the invoice relating to them
Bassam and Half-jack
(also Sette Cama and
Assinie), Reunion, Co-
moro Islands, JIayotte
and dependencies, Ma-
junga, St. Maiy & Tam-
atave (Madagascar),
New Caledonia and de-
pendencies, the French
portion of the Low
Archipelago, and the
French Establishments
in India (Pondichery,
Chandfrnagor, Karikal,
Mahe,and Yanaonjand
in Cochin China.
Gambia.
Germany.
German Colonies, viz. —
JIarshall Islands, New
Guinea (portion of),
Samoa (Apia), Togo
Territory, including
Bageida, Liitle Popo,
Lome, & Porto Seguro,
and territory in South-
west, Africa, viz., Grand
Namaqua, the Damaras
Country, and Southern
portion of Ovambo; also
Bagamoyo,and Dar-es-
Salaam, Lindi, and
Tanga in East Africa.
Gibraltar (including the
British Post Ofiices at
Tangier, Laraiche, Ha-
bat, Casablanca, Saffi,
Mazagan, & Mogador).
*Gold Coast.
* Greece.
Grenada.
Grenadines.
*Guatemala.
* Hawaiian Islands.
*Hayti.
* Herzegovina.
*Hondura3 (Republic of).
I Hong Kong.
*India.
*Italy.
Jamaica.
*Japan.
Labuan.
Lagos.
*Liberia.
Luxemburg.
*JIadeira.
Malta.
'■'Marquesas Islands.
*i\Iam'itius and depend-
encies.
*Mexico.
* Montenegro,
Montserrat.
Natal.
*Netherlands.
*iSretherlandsColonies; viz.
Dutch Guiana (Sur-
inam), Cnrafoa and
dependencies, viz. —
Bonaii'e, Aruba, the
Netherlands portion of
S t.Martin , St. Eustache,
Saba, Java, Madura,
Sumatra, Celebes, Bor-
neo (except North-west
part), Billiton, Archi-
pelago of Banca, Archi-
pelago of Riouw, Snnda
Islands (Bali Lombok,
Sumbawa, Floris, and
the South-west part of
Timor), the Archipelago
of the Moluccas, and
the North-west part of
New Guinea (Papua).
*Nevis.
Ne^vfoundlaud.
New Zealand.
*Nicaragua.
*Norway.
"Paraguay.
■■^ Patagonia.
^Persia.
' *Peru.
*Portngal.
*Portuguese Colonies; viz.
■ — Goa and its depend-
encies (Damoa and Diu),
Macao, Timor, Cape
Verd Islands and de-
pendencies (Bissau and
Cacheu), Islands of St.
Thomas and Prince (in
Africa ), with the Estab-
lishment of Ajuda, An-
gola, Delagoa Bay, and
Mozambique.
*Roumania.
*Eussia.
*St. Kitts.
*St. Lucia.
*St. Pierre-et-Miquelon.
St. Vincetit( West Indies).
*Salvador.
*Servia.
*SeychelIes.
*Siam.
Sierra Leone.
•'Spain (including Balearic
and Canary Islands).
^Spanish Colonies ; viz. —
Cuba, Porto Rico, Fer-
nando Po, Annobon and
dependencies, Philip-
pine Islands,andMaviaa i
Islands.
Straits Settlements.
*Sweden.
*Switzerland.
^Tahiti.
*Tobago.
*Tortola.
*Trinidad.
*Turkey.
*Turk's Island.
♦United States.
*Uruguay.
*Venezue!a.
^Zanzibar.
may he enclosed. Stamps for prepayment, whether
obliterated or not, and all printed articles constituting
the sign of monetary value, are, however, excluded
from transmission by Book Post to countries of the
Po.stal Union.
The two classes are subject to the same rates of
postage, except that the mmimum charge for a packet
of commercial papers, however small the weight, is
2|d. in every case. If there be any mixture of the
two in the same packet the whole packet is treated
as commercial papers.
Commercial papers and printed papersmaybe posted
either without a cover (in which case it must not b.e
fastened, whether by means ofgum, wafer, sealing wax,
postage stamp, or otherwise), or in an ordinary letter
envelope left wholly unfastened, or in a cover open at
both ends, so as to admit of the contents being easily