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10^ POST-OPnCE DIRECTORY.
Prices Current from any colony or place abroad by private ship
are charged the same rate as newspapers. Prices Current from
any British Colony by packet, direct to any place in the United
Kingdom, one penny each.
Prices Current from any foreign country by packet (except
France, Belgium, Holland, and China), direct to the United King-
dom, twopence each.
Prices CuiTcnt from whatever part (except China) received by
way of France, Belgium, Holland, or Hamburg, twopence each.
Newspapers posted out of date, written on, or in any way marked
for reference, or containing anything contrary to the Act, or with-
out being prepaid, will, if there be no means of forwarding them
as unpaid letters, be sent to the Dead Letter Office. When they
can be forwarded, those out of date, or not prepaid, as required,
will be charged with the ordinary letter postage.
Newspapers posted in France contrary to the established regu-
lations of that country, are transmitted to this country as letters.
British newspapers re-posted in France for England are charged
with the British frontier postage of 5d. per half ounce.
Periodical Publications, &c.
Periodical works, unstamped, and not of daily publication, Par-
liamentary proceedings, &c., may be forwarded, by direct packet
or private ship, to and from France, Belgium, Bremen, Hamburg,
Holland, Prussia, and the United States (but not to countries pass-
ing through), under the following regulations : —
1st, The postage must be paid in advance (except those from.)
2d, They must be sent in covers open at the sides for exami-
nation.
3d, They must be printed in the English language, or the
language of the country they are sent from.
The rate on such works will be as follows : —
Not exceeding two oz. in weight, one penny.
Not exceeding three oz. in weight, sixpence.
And twopence for every additional ounce to 16 inclusive, beyond
which weight no publication can be forwarded except paid for as
letters.
Plates of fashions, music, &c., accompanying newspapers and
periodicals, are to be considered as part of such publication, and
are not liable to extra charge. Prints published with newspapers,
and duly stamped, may be sent by post separately as a newspaper ;
but those bearing the supplement stamp of ^d. only, must be sent
with the paper it belongs to, and be under the weight of two
ounces.
Periodicals posted without previous payment will be forwarded
as unpaid letters, and no single pamphlet or work unnumbered,
and without reference to its continuance at any other time or
period, can be considered or taken to be a periodical.
Pamphlets, although not published periodically, may be for-
warded to the United States at the same rates as above, when
not exceeding eight ounces.