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II. Newspapers and other periodical publications bearing the
Neivspaper Stamp.
Although the provision is made for forwarding newspapers, books,
and money through the post, it is not compulsory on any one to
employ this mode of transmission ; everything except letters may
be sent in any other way.
All periodical publications, including newspapers, published in
the United Kingdom, at intervals not exceeding thirty-one days,
and which bear an impressed stamp or stamps denoting the stamp
duty (of the kind formerly confined chiefly to newspapers) may be
transmitted and retransmitted through the post within the United
Kingdom free of postage.
INLAND BOOK POST.
The following are the regulations of the Inland Booh Post :— -
1st. Bates of Postage :
Weighing not more than 4 oz. - - - - Id
„ more than 4 oz. and not exceeding 8 oz. 2d
„ more than 8 oz. ,, „ 16 oz. 4d
„ more than 1 lb. ,, „ 1| lb. 6d
and so on, 2d being charged for every additional half pound
or fraction of a half pound.
2d. The postage must be prepaid, to the extent of one rate at
least ; by means of postage stamps affixed outside the packet
or it's cover ; and if the whole postage be not thus prepaid the
packet is treated in the manner described in Section 9.
3d. Every packet must be sent either without a cover, or in a
cover open at the ends or sides ; so as to admit of the enclos-
ures being removed for examination. For the greater security
of its contents the packet may be tied at the ends with string .
but in such case the Postmaster is authorised to cut the string,
although he is required to refasten the packet.
4th. A book-packet may contain any number of separate books or
other publications (including printed letters and printed mat-
ter of every kind), photographs, when not on glass or in cases
containing glass, prints, or maps, and any quantity of paper
parchment or vellum. And the books or other publications,
prints, maps, &c, may be either printed, written, or plain, or
any mixture of the three. Further, all legitimate binding,
mounting, or covering of a book, &c, or of a portion thereof,
will be allowed, whether such binding, &c, be loose or at-
tached ; so also rollers, in the case of prints or maps ; markers
(whether of papers or otherwise), in books; and, in short,
whatever is necessary for the safe transmission of literary
matter, prints, or maps, or usually appertains thereto ; but no
patterns, or books of patterns (unless these consist merely of
paper) can be allowed.
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