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APPENDIX.
and the entire packet be sufficiently prepaid as a book packet'
in which case it may be allowed to pass.
12th. A newspaper which has any letter, or any communication of
the nature of a letter, written in it or upon its cover, will be
charged as an unpaid or insufficiently paid letter.
13th. No packet of newspapers must exceed 14 lbs. in weight, nor
may it exceed two feet in length or one foot in width or
depth.
Ill .— P OSTAGE STAMPS.
Every Head Postmaster is required to keep, for sale to the
public, a sufficient stock of halfpenny Post Cards, of the various
postage labels in use, and of envelopes with the penny stamp em-
bossed. The labels are of the respective values of ^d, Id, l|d, 2d,
3d, -id, 6d, 9d, lOd, Is, 2s, and 5s. Sub-Postmasters are required
to keep halfpenny and penny labels, and halfpenny Post Cards
only ; but they can procure any stamps of other values, or embossed
envelopes which may be required. The envelopes are made of four
sizes, viz.,-4f ins. by 3 ll-16ths ins., 5^ ins. by 3f ins., 5\ ins. by
3 ins., and 4f- ins. by 2f ins., and are sold at the following
prices:— £1 2s 6d per 240, 1 for l^d, 3 for 3Jd, 4 for 4±d, and
24 for 2s 3d.
Stamped Newspaper Wrappers bearing an impressed halfpenny
stamp are not sold in smaller numbers than 12, or multiples of 12.
The two smaller sized wrappers are discontinued, the issue being
limited to the larger sized wrapper of the dimensions 12 ins. by 5
ins. The price for 12 wrappers is 6|d ; 480 for £\ Is Sd.
Parliamentary Proceedings.
Printed Votes or Proceedings of the Imperial Parliament, sent
without covers or in covers open at the ends, may circulate within
the United Kingdom at the rate of one halfpenny for every 2 oz. or
fraction of that weight.
The words "Parliamentary Proceedings'' must be written or
printed on the cover of the packet, otherwise it will be treated as
an ordinary Book Packet.
Prepayment, when the circulation is within the United Kingdom,
is optional ; and if it be made in part, the simple difference only
will be charged.
Parliamentary Proceedings may be sent, under the Book Post
privilege, to all the Colonies, and to those Foreign States between
which and this country there is a book post.
Book. Post. — (1.) Inland.
A Book-Packet may contain not only books, paper, or other sub-
stance in ordinary use for writing or printing, whether plain or
written or printed upon (to the exclusion of any written letter or
communication of the nature of a letter), Photographs, when not
on glass or in frames containing glass or any like substance, and
anything usually appertaining to such articles in the way of bind-
ing and mounting necessary for their safe. transmission by post,