Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1851-08-20
DECISIONS UNDER THE NEW PORTAGE
ACT MADE BY THE P. M. GENERAL.
Post Office Department, July 90 1851.


three months, and sent from the Office of publi-
cation to actual and bona fde subscribers, Is re-
quired by law to be prepaid.
IL the amount paid and marked on such prin-
ted matter is not sufficient to pay the whole
postage due, the excess Of weight beyond that
paid for is to be charged with double the rate
which would have been charged if prepaid, and
the postage on such excess collected at the Office
of delivery.
If by the neglect Of postmaster such mat
ter is sent without any payment, the double
prepaid rate must be collected on the delivery.
Postage must be charged on all letters and
other matter according to the distance or the
route by which they are conveyed; and this un-
less otherwise directed by the sender, must be
the route by which they will soonest reach their
destination, although that may not be the short
est route.
Postage should be charged by postmasters ac-
cording to the tabular statements OF the rates OF
postage, both foreign and inland (which have been
lately forwarded to every postmaster in the UnE
ted States.
Subscribers to periodicals, to obtain the BEN
eft of the provision in regard to prepayment,
must pay the full quarters postage before the
delivery of the first number, when there are sew
cral numbers to be delivered during the quar-
ter If, by reason of any increase in the size OF
the periodicals or otherwise, it shall appear that
the whole quarters postage was not paid in adj
vance, the subscriber will lose the benefit Of
prepayment, and the numbers received during
the whole quarter will be charged with the
double or unpaid rate, and the subscriber will
be credited with only the amount paid in adj
vance.
Under the provision of the Cd section of the
new postage act, no newspapers, other than those
published weekly only are entitled to circulate
free Of postage in the counties where publish
ed. The Office of publication is the office where
the newspaper is printed, and there can be no
other office of publication in another county for
the purpose of securing an additional free circu-
lation.
In determining newspaper hostages, the dis
tances are to be computed from the office of pub
LEGATION and not from the county line of the
county in which the paper is published; and the
distance is also to be computed over the route
on which it is carried.
Newspapers published weekly only in coun-
ty adjoining the Canada line may be sent free
to Canada provided they do not leave the coun-
ty of publication until they cross the line into
Canada.
When such papers are sent out of the county
where published to be delivered from post of
flee in an adjoining county in the United States
no matter how short the distance, full postage
must be charged.
Newspaper publishers may send and receive
their exchange newspapers to and from Canada
free of charge.
Publishers of newspapers, pamphlets, period
icals, and magazines, under the provisions of
the second section of the new law, may inter-
change their publications reciprocally free of
postage, provided such publications do not ex-
coed sixteen ounces in weight Such interchange
must be confined to single copy of each pub
lication; but is not limited to an exchange of
newspaper for newspaper and periodical for Pc
riodical; but publishers of newspapers have the
right to exchange with publishers of periodicals
under the late act Of Congress. Such publish
ers may also enclose in their publications the
bills for subscriptions thereto without any addi-
tional charge for postage and this privilege ex-
tends also to the transmission of receipted bill
after the same has been paid.
A newspapers is not a periodical within the
meaning and intent Of the provision which re-
quires the postage on periodicals to be paid in
advance, and declares that the postage thereon
shall be one-half of the rates previously specif-
ed in the second section of the act; but all sub
scribers to newspapers were and still are requi-
ed by the provisions of the thirteth section of
the act of March, 1926, to pay one quarters
postage in advance by so doing, however they
are not entitled to have the postage reduced be-
low the established rates.
The postage on newspapers weighing less than
three ounces, "sent from the Office of publica-
ton to actual and bona fde subscribers is fix
ed by laD by the quarter only, and is required
to be paid in advance. Hence, no person can
be considered an actual and bona fde subscriber
to newspaper, and entitled to pay postage on
at the quarterly rates, who shall only take a
newspaper for less time than three months
Actual bona fide subscribers to papers for three
months or more, who change their residences
temporarily, may have their papers sent without
prepayment, but must pay quarters postage
in advance at the office Of delivery or else pay
the unpaid transient rate.
Publishers cannot send specimen numbers of
their papers to postmasters and others Gas has
been much practised heretofore under the old
law without preparing the postage thereon.
Publications borrowing the name, having the
form and some of the characteristics of news
paper, printed for gratuitous circulation and de-
pending on their advertisements for support,
cannot be sent by mail gratuitously to persons
not actual and bona fde subscribers upon the
footing OF newspapers "sent from the office of
publication to actual and bona fide subscribers !"
but must be charged with the transient rates,
which must be collected at the MAILING office =