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or printed communication is put on the same after its publication, or upon the cover or wrapper, except the name and address of the person to whom the same is sent; or if any thing else is inclosed in such printed paper. If these conditions are not complied with, letter postage shall be charged.

When any printed matter received during any quarter has been in the post-office for the whole of the succeeding quarter, the postmaster shall sell it, and credit the amount of the sales, as directed by the Post-Office Department.

The establishment of private expresses for the conveyance of any letters, packets, or packages of letters, or other matter transmittible in the United States mail (newspapers, pamphlets, magazines, and periodicals excepted), from one city, town, or place, to any other city, town, or place in the United States, between which the United States mail is regularly transported, is prohibited, but letters, &c. may be carried by carriers in stamped envelopes. Contractors may carry newspapers out of the mails for sale or distribution among subscribers. A penalty of $5,000 is imposed on any person taking letters through or over any part of the United States for the purpose of being sent out of the United States without the payment of postage.

Letters addressed to different persons cannot be inclosed in the same envelope or package, under a penalty of ten dollars, unless addressed to foreign countries.

7. PRIVILEGE OF FRANKING.

1. The President, ex-Presidents, and Mrs. Harrison, have the franking privilege, as regulated by former laws.

2. Members of Congress and Delegates from Territories, from thirty days before the commencement* of each Congress until the meeting of the next Congress, the Vice-President and the Secretary of the Senate, and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, during their official terms, may send and receive free letters or packages not exceeding two ounces in weight, and public documents not exceeding three pounds in weight.

3. The Governors of States may send free the laws, records, and documents of the Legislature to the Governors of other States.

4. The Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, Navy, and the Interior; Attorney-General; Postmaster-General and Assistant Postmasters-General; Comptrollers, Auditors, Register, and Solicitor of the Treasury; Treasurer; Commissioners of the different Offices and Bureaus; Chiefs of Bureaus in the War and Navy Departments, General-in-Chief, and Adjutant-General; and the Superintendent of the Coast Survey and his assistant, may send and receive free all letters and packages upon official business, but not their private letters or papers.

5. The Chief Clerks in the several Departments may send free public and official documents.

6. Deputy postmasters may send free all such letters and packages as relate exclusively to the business of their respective offices; and those whose compensation did not exceed $200 for the year ending the 30th of June, 1846, may also send free, through the mails, letters written by themselves, and receive free all written communications on their own private business, not weighing over one half-ounce, but not transient newspapers, handbills, or circulars.

7. Exchange newspapers between editors pass free.

For other free matter, see Rates of Postage.

Public documents are those printed by the order of either house of Congress, and publications or books procured or purchased by Congress, or either house, for the use of the members.

* The commencement of each Congress for this purpose dates from the 4th of March (i. e. the day next) succeeding the termination of the preceding Congress.

8. RATES OF FOREIGN LETTER AND NEWSPAPER POSTAGE BETWEEN ANY POINTS IN THE UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

Great Britain and Ireland.

Between the United States and Great Britain and Ireland, letters are rated, by weight, as in the United States. Between any office in the United States (Oregon and California excepted) and any office in Great Britain and Ireland, by either the United States or British line, the entire postage is 24 cents the single letter, prepayment optional. Five cents are to be added when to or from California or Oregon. Newspapers 2 cents each, to be prepaid. Payment of any thing less than the entire postage goes for nothing, and such matter will be treated as wholly unpaid.

Other Foreign Countries and Cities.

The places marked (a) are via Southampton; (b) via Southampton and India; (c) via Southampton and Lisbon; (d) via England; (e) by private ship, via England; (f) via Plymouth; (g) via Falmouth; (h) via France; (i) via Marseilles; (j) by French packet, via Marseilles; (k) by closed mail, via Marseilles; (2) via Trieste.

In the first two columns of this list, the rates named must in every instance be prepaid, and with 5 cents more when the letter is from Oregon or California. The 21 cent rate is the United States inland and Atlantic sea, and the 5 cent rate the United States inland postage only. In the Prussian closed mail (third and sixth columns), the rates set down are the full postage to destination. Newspapers must be prepaid. In the British mail the 4 cent rate is United States and British, and the 2 cent the United States postage only.

In the case of letters to go through France, the French postage is rated by the quarter ounce for the single letter. This is ten cents, except on letters for Egypt, Syria, and Tunis, by French packet, when the single French rate is 20 cents. Therefore, on letters marked "via France," or "via Marseilles," the French rate must be doubled for each quarter of an ounce. The asterisk (indicates that prepayment is optional; in all other cases prepayment is required.

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On British, sea, and American inland postage, the single letter is oz.; on foreign postage, the single letter is less than oz. Letters weighing oz. and under§ oz. are charged two rates; § oz. and under §, three rates, &c.; an additional rate being charged for each quarter of an ounce. Thus, a letter directed to the East Indies by a British steamer, and weighing less than oz., will be charged 65 cents postage; if oz. or more, and less than oz., 75 cents must be paid; the foreign postage only being doubled for each oz.

On letters to the following places and countries, prepayment is optional; but when prepaid, only the United States postage of 20 cents the single letter should be prepaid, the foreign portion being collected of the receiver; viz. Alexandria, Cairo, Constantinople, Denmark, Greece, eastern towns of Italy, Norway, St. Petersburg or Cronstadt, Sweden, and Switzerland.

On letters to Havre, or any place on the coast of France, to Germany, or any port on the Continent, where the United States steam-packets stop, the postage is 20 cents the single rate, prepayment required. Letters by this line are subject in France to an additional postage of 12 cents if weighing under ₫ oz. ; 24 cents, if weighing over 4 oz. and less than 1 oz., &c. Newspapers 2 cents each, prepayment required.

Postage to Mexico, South America, and the West Indies, from any Point in the United States.

On letters to Chagres, Havana (Cuba), Mexico, Panama, and other places where the rates are not fixed by postal treaty, and to the British West Indies, viz. Antigua, Barbadoes, Bahamas, Berbice, Cariaco, Demarara, Dominica, Essequibo, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Tobago, Tortola, and Trinidad,

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If distance from mailing office does not exceed 2,500 miles, 66 exceed 2,500 miles, Newspapers 2 cents each. The postage on letters and newspapers must be prepaid.

On letters to the West India Islands (not British) except Cuba, to Carthagena, Honduras, St. Juan (Nicaragua), or to places in the Gulf of Mexico or on the Atlantic coast of South America, not in British possession, viz. Venezuela, Brazils, and Uruguay, to be prepaid,

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To St. Thomas and the other Danish islands, by U. S. packet to Kingston, the single rate is 18 cents under 2,500 miles, and 28 cents over 2,500 miles, prepayment required.

On newspapers sent, the postage (U. S. and British) is 6 cents, to be prepaid. On newspapers received, the rate to be collected is 2 cents, the British postage being prepaid.

The single postage to any part of the Argentine Republic from any point in the United States is (to be prepaid)

The postage on letters to the following places-i. e. to Guayaquil and Quito, in Ecuador; to Cobiga and La Paez, in Bolivia; to Copiapo, Huasco, Coquimbo, Valparaiso, and St. Jago, in Chili-is (to be prepaid),

On letters sent, being U. S. and British postage,
On letters received, U. S. postage only,

10 cents.

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