The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1847-03-25
REGULATIONS OF THE Pc
INICII JNINTDA TrINATTNArrrN

!alng 10 the business OF their Offices or Of tbs
Post Office Department, endorsing thereon
" Post Office business" and signing their
names thereto. And those whose conpcpga,
ton did not exceed 5000 for the year ending
the Both OF June, 1916, may also send free
through the mails, letters written by them,
selves, and receive free all written coLr.uui-
cations on their own private business, NOT
weighing over one-half ounce.
2. Members Of Congress and Delegates f-oga
Territories may send and receive free Though
the mails, from thirty days before the CON.
mencement OF each Congress, until the meet
ing of the next Congress, letters and packeg-
es not exceeding two ounces in weight, and
public documents not exceeding three pounds
in weight Public documents are those print
! ed by the order Of either House Of Conpress.
and publications or books procured Or pur-
chased by Congress, or either House, for the
use Of the members.
! 3. The same privilege allowedt TO mcu.berg
Of Congress is extended to the Secreiqyy or
The Senate and the Clerk of the House Of Hlu.
| reSentatireS during their official terms, which
terminate with the election of their SUCCESS
ors.
4. The privilege of tho Vice Preside,: is
enlarged so that he may send and receive
free, public documents, during his official
term.
5. Persons entitled to the privilege Of
frankng should endorse on all letters or rack.
ages weighing under two ounces, " Free,' and
sign the same, designating the office they all;
and all public documents which exceed Two
ounces in weight should be designated by
writing the words public documents" On
them, and signing them officially as above
The character Of public documents issued
FROM ha tl,n ~ ,r{I
ton and directed to persons authorized TO re.
ccive them free, may be designated by e.
stamp specifying the office from which they
issue, and the words "public documents" or
such other evidence of their character AS uoy
be agreed upon between them and the Post
master of the City of Washington. Any doc
ument folded and sealed, not having such cy-
idence of its character on the enveiop, will be
rated with postage which will be RENTED Nv
the delivering Postmaster, upon satisfactory
evidence that it is public document trans,
mi5sble free through the mails to the person
addressed.
G. All letters and packages from and 10
the heads of Departments, or the other public
officers who were entitled to the frankinp
privilege prior to the passage Of the Act cf
the 3D. Of March, lS45, in relation 10 tie buai~
ness of their respective Offices, will be deliver
ed to the persons addressed, without any
charge OF postage, as an appropriation has
been made by Congress for their payment
All letters and packages issuing from the De-
partments, should be marked on the enyeop
/" official business" and signed by the heads Of
the Departments, or, under their direction, by
their chief clerks, and by the other officers
who were entitled to the franking privilege
prior to the Act of 1S45, designating their Of
io1 P,,t
the right to send or receive, free their private
letters or papers.
Z. All newspapers transmitted through
the mails will be hereafter rated with postage
except exchange papers between the PUBLISH
ers Of newspapers, and those franked by pey-
sons enjoying the privilege; and contractors
may take newspapers out of the mails, for
sale or distribution among subscribers.
8. transient newspapers, or those not sent
from the office of publication to subscribers,
handbilIs or circular letters, printed or litho-
graphed, not exceeding one sheet in size, will
pay cents upon delivery at the office and
before they are put in the mails, and all such
will be charged by Deputy Postmasters as pre-
paid matter in the way bills and upon their
accounts Of mails sent, and stamped or mark
ed paid" with the name of the office from
which sent.
8. Transient newspapers, handbls, or
circulars, cannot be received free by Deputy
Postmasters under their privilege. If such
should be addressed to them, it is their duty
to return them to the sender under new
cover, charged with letter postage Ifdepos-
tied in Post Office unseaed, addressed to
Deputy Postmasers or others, they will not
III any case be forwarded by mail without
prepayment Of the postage. If sealed they
u,IIl Iva ro+nI with Int+ay ,,Cefoon
warded in the mails.
10. Letters addressed to different persons
cannot be enclosed in the same enyelop or
package, under penalty of ten dollars, IN
less addressed to foreign countries.
II. Letters, newspapers and packages not
exceeding one ounce in weight, addressed to
any officer, musician or private in the Army
of the United States in Mexico, or at any post
or place on the frontier of the United States
bordering on Mexico, will pass free in the
mails. Each letter so addressed should spec
ify after the name of the person, belonging
t the Army" The law will continue in force
during the war with Mexico, and for three
months after its termination.
II. Extra commissions allowed to Deputy
Postmasters by the order of the 9th of July,
1915, are superseded by the act of the Sd Of
March, 1S47.
-. The commissions allowed by the oath
section of the Act OIL the Sd Of March, 1916,
are repealed, and other rates allowed by the
LIST section of the Act of the 1st March, lS47,
in lieu Of them, as follows:
/. On the amount of letter postage, not
exceeding 500 in any one year, 40 per
cent.
2. On any sum between 500 and $500
in any year 33 1-2 per cent.
3. On any sum between $500 and $4,000
in year, 80 per cent
4. On any sum over $4,000 in year.
~ 1-2 per cent.
s. On the amount of letters and packets
received for distribution at offices designated
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