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POST-OFFICE DIRECTORY. Ill
*' paper, or other publication hereby privileged, so far as respects
" the transmission thereof by the Post under the Post-Office acts,
"the question shall be referred to the determination of the Post-
*' master-General, -whose decision, with the concurrence of the
** Lords of the Treasury, shall be final.*'
Newspapers published in the Channel Islands and the Isle of
Man are now excluded from the Newspaper privileges, except such
as may be printed in the French language.
Printed Votes and Proceedings of Parliament.
Printed Votes and Proceedings of Parliament, or of the Colonial
Legislatures are charged —
Under four ounces, .... Id.
Above four and under eight ounces, . 2d.
Above eight and under twelve ounces . 3d., and so on„
Such Votes and Proceedings, whether paid or unpaid, pass at
these rates between places in the United Kingdom, as well as to
the Colonies, by Packet. The Postmaster-General is authorised
(if he shall see fit) to delay the transmission of Printed Votes and
Proceedings in Parliament for any space not exceediog Twenty-
four hours from the time at which the same would otherwise have
been forwarded.
Stamped Publications.
Stamped Publications, not being Newspapers, but having au-
thority of the Postmaster-General to pass as such by Post, are
restricted to the weight of two ounces.
FOREIGN & COLONIAL LETTERS & NEWSPAPERS.
General Regulations.
The prepayment of Postage is optional to many parts abroad ;
Foreign as well as Colonial. For information on this point,
reference may be made to the List of Foreign Places.
Letters for the Colonies and Foreign Countries posted unpaid,
although specially addressed to be forwarded by routes whch require
the Postage to be paid in advance, will not, if there are any means of
transmitting them, be opened and returned to the writers for pay-
ment of such Postage, but will be despatched, if possible, by other
routes unpaid.
Weight of Letters.
Foreign Letters are charged on the same principle as inland,
according to weight, as follows : —
Not exceeding § oz. one Rate.
Do. do. 1 oz. two Rates.
And two Rates for every succeeding oz.
The French and Belgian scale of progression is as follows :—
Under ^ oz. one Rate.
Weighing | oz., under § oz., two Rates.
And one Rate for every succeeding ^ oz.
In charging the British and Foreign combined rates, it is to be