The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, 1851-03-08
POST OFFICE INFORMATION.

A single letter means any weighing l ounce
avoidrupois or less. A letter weighing over or
and less than isregarded as letters.
newspaper, means paper of 1900 square in
ches or less. -.
No P. M. can frank letter weighing over !
ounce. except on 'oficial Business
Postage on letters from any Office in the U. S.,
to and from California, our Territories on the
Pacific, 40 cents prepaid not. Newspapers
and pamphlets 8 cents each. sea postage, and the
| inland Postage to be added, any.
r. M 3 whose CONS were $500 or less for the
year ending June 80, 1880, can send and receive
written letters free, not weighing over /
each on their own private business.-They can
frank to California. or any other place in the U.
8. possessions, but not beyond.
Postage on letters to China, sc. may be IS
cents or As cents.
Postage on regular or transient papers, l or / /
cents, and SO per cent. commission on them.
Total postage papers to Great Britain
cents. cents to be paid in each country; to any
place through Great Britain cents, prepaid.
The Postage on letters, to or from Great Brit
ain is "a cts, the single rate.
The franking privilege travels with its pos
sessor.' Postm aster can frank through any
office he may pass in travelling, but he cannot
send franked letters from his own office at the
same time.
POstmasters whose annual compensation IS not
over 5000, may frank names of subscribers and
money to newspapers.
Postmasters are entitled by law to the follow
ing missions on the amount Of letter postages
received by them IN each quarter Of the year,
and in due proportion of any fractional part of
quarter but no Postmaster can receive larger
quarter:
40 per cent. on the first 500;
SO. next 800;
80 1900;
12. on all over 2,400:
A commission of so per cent. IS allowed on
postage of Newspapers, Pamphlets, and Maya
Zines also two cents is allowed for the delivery
of each free letter, excepting free packets of
priD n &c
made up in letter forrn,) to officers where the
commission does not amt to $500
On letters received for distribution at such
Offices as are designated for that purpose by the
is allowed. Postmasters whose annual compen-
sation is not over 5000 may frank names Of sub
scrbers and money to editors.
At offices where the mail IS regularly to arrive
between the hours of o'clock in the evening
and 5 O'Clock in the morning, so instead of 40
per cent. is allowed the first 100 of letter
postage.
Table of zostages.
Letters not over 300 miles, 81 10 20 80
Letters over 300 miles, l0i 20i 40; so
Dropped letters, 2l II Fl
Letters by British mails, "a 4Sl 96l Id
Newspapers not over 100 miles,
or within the State, for each
sheet supplement-. cent
Do 100 miles and out of the
State, cts.
To be prepaid if not sent from
the office of publication.
Pamphlets, Magazines, Periodi-
Gals and all other printed mat
ter, except as before and under
mentioned-for each not over OF 2o1 3oz OF
2. 81 4. s.
A fraction of or. over not to be
regarded.
Circulars and handbills not over
single cap size aud unsedled-
(to be prepald) Scents.
The Cunard line of steamers is under contract
pay with Great Britain, for carrying mails, and
all the postage except cents on letters carried
from the U. States by that line, is received by
Great Britain but the Collins line is under con-
tract with the United States, and all the postage
except cents on letters carried out oy this
line, is recei, ed by the q States.