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APPENDIX.
No letter may exceed 1 8 inches in length, 9 in width, or 6 in depth,
unless it be sent to or from a Government office.
Addresses to the Queen and Petitions to Parliament,
Petitions and addresses to Her Majesty, forwarded direct, are exempt
from postage ; and such petitions and addresses, as also petitions to
either House of Parliament, if sent to a member of either House, are
likewise exempt, provided they do not weigh more than two pounds,
and are either without covers or are in covers open at the ends. No>
letter, or other enclosure, however, must be inserted ; and if one be
found, such enclosure, unless it bear the proper number of postage
stamps, will be charged as an unpaid letter.
Newspapers.
1st. The prepaid postage on every inland newspaper is one half-
penny, but a packet, containing two or more registered news-
papers, is not liable to a higher rate than the book-postage
upon it would be. For each transmission a fresh postage must
be paid.
2nd. A Newspaper posted unpaid, or a packet of Newspapers-
posted unpaid, or insufficiently paid, is treated as an unpaid or
insufficiently paid book-packet of the same weight.
3rd. Any publication fulfilling the subjoined conditions can, upon
payment of an annual fee of 5s, be registered at the General
Post Office for circulation within the United Kingdom as a
Newspaper, as also for transmission to places abroad. Un-
registered, a Newspaper is liable to the book rate of postage,
a. The publication must consist wholly or in great part of
political or other news, or of articles relating thereto, or
to other current topics, with or without advertisements.
b. It must be printed and published in the United Kingdom,
and in numbers at intervals of not more than seven days..
c. The full title and date of publication must be printed at
the top of the first page, and the whole or part of the title:
and the date at the top of every subsequent page. This
regulation applies also to "Table of Contents" and
" Indices."
d. A supplement must consist wholly or in great part of
matter like that of a Newspaper, or of advertisements,
printed on a sheet or sheets, or on a piece or pieces of
paper, unstitched ; or wholly or in part of engravings,,
prints, or lithographs, illustrative of articles in the paper.
It must in every case be published with the paper, and
have its title and date printed at the top of every page ;-
or, if it consists of 'engravings, prints, or lithographs, at
the top of every sheet or .side.
4th. A Newspaper, if posted in a cover, must have such cover open
at both ends, so as to admit of easy inspection.*
* In order that no failure may occur in the delivery of newspapers through the
covers becoming detached, it is recommended that the addresses be Viritten on exposed!
parts of the newspapers themselves as well as on the covers.