The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-07-29
Oh FICIAL.
Decisions under the new Postage Act made
by the Postmaster General.
Posr orrlos psrAarmrNr, July 26, ls5l.

The postage on all bound books and on all other
printed matter, ereep newspapers and periodicals
published at intervals not ezcseding three months and
"sent from the office Of publication to actual and
iona s sbseribers,' ia required by law to be pre-
paid
| II the amount paid and marked on such printed
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.
fby the neglect of postmaster such matter is
sent without any prepayment, the double prepaid
rate must be collected on delivery.
Postage must be charged all letters and other
matter according to the distance or the route by
which they are conveyed; and this (unless other
wise directed by the sender must be the route by
which they will soonest reach their destination al
though that may not be the shortest route. Post
age should be charged by postmasters according to
the tabular statements Of the rates of postage both
foreign and inland, which have been lately for
warded to every postmaster in the United States
Subscribers TO periodicals, to obtain the benefit of
the provision in regard to prepayment, must pay
the full quarters postage before the delivery of the
first number when there several numbers 10
be delivered during the quarter. If, by reason of
any increase in the size of the periodicals or other
wse it sha II appear that the whole quarters post
age was not paid in advance, 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 provisions of the I'd section of the new
postage act, ms,ospaprs other than those pub
lished ceekEy ONLY entitled to circulate free of
! postage In the counties where published. The Of
tce OF publication ID the Office where the newspaper
Is printed, and there can be other office of pub
lication IN another county for the purpose of Be-
curing an additional free circulation.
In determining newspaper hostages, the dis
tances are to be computed from the office Of publ
cation and not from the county line of the county
IN which the paper is published; and the distance
is also to be computed the route on which il is
| carried
Newspapers published ,oeeky only in a county adj
Joining the Canada line may be sent free to Cunada
provided they do net leave the county of publica-
ton until they cross the line into Canada
| When such papers are sent out of the county
where published, to be delivered from post office
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 periodicals,
and magazines, under the provisions of the second
section of the new Law, may interchange their pub
| locations reciprocaly free of postage, provided
such publications do not exceed sixteen ounces in
weight. Such interchange must be confined to
single copy of each publication; but is not limited
to an exchange of newspaper for newspaper and
periodical for periodical; but publishers of news
popers have the rigit to exchange with publishers
of periodicals under he late act of Congress- Such
| publishers may also enclose in their publications
the bills for subscriptions thereto without any adj
ditional charge for postage and this privilege ex
tends also to the Transmission Of receipted bill
| after the same has been paid.
| newspaper is not periodical within the mean
ing and intent of the provision which requires the
postage on periodicals to be paid in advance, and
declares that the postage thereon shall be half
of the rates previously specified in the second sec
ton of the act but all subscribers to newspapers
we're and stl are required by the provisions of the
thrtieth section of tie act of March, 1925, to paw
one quarters postage in advance; by so doing,
however, they not entitled to have the postage
| reduced below the established rates.
| The postage newspapers weighing less than
three ounces, "sent from the office of publication
to actual and bona tide subscribers,'' is fixed by
aiD by the quarter only. and ia required be paid
in advance. Hence, no person can be considered
an actual and bona fde subscriber to n newspaper,
and entitled to pay postage thereon at the quarter
y rates, who shall only take newspa per for less
time than three months. Actual and bona fde SUBJ
scribers 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) with
out preparing the postage thereon.
Publications borrowing the name, having the
form and some OF the characteristics of newspa-
per, printed for gratutous circulation an d depend
ing their advertisements for support, cannot be
sent by mail gratuitously persons not actual and
bona tde subscribers upon the footing of newspa-
pers sent from the office of publication to actual
and bona tide su6scribers;" but must be charged
with the transient rates, which must be collected
at the mailing office. To entitle actual and bona
de Subscribers to reduction in the rate of postage
periodicals sent them from the office of publica
ton, payments must be made by them ir, Advance
at the post office where such publications are to be
delivered.
The United States postage on newspapers peri
odicas, and other matter not chargeable with
letter postage, when sent out of the United States
must be prepaid at the foil rate
Publishers ofperiodicals may prepay the postage
on their issues, but can have deduction of post
age on account Of auch prepayment. When De-
rodical is published only quarterly the actual and
bona fde subscriber for such periodical may paw in
advance and have the benefit Of the advance pay
ment, provided he pays to the postmaster at the Of
fee where he is to receive the periodical before its
delivery If periodical published less frequent
ly, the postage must be prepaid. and at the foil
| rate.
| Postmasters are not bound TO receive from the
publishers weekly newspapers published in the city,
town, or village where the post office is kept, and
deliver them to subscribers calling at their office
for them. The right to "circulate in the mail
within the county where published does not i'm
pose on postmasters the duty of receiving and de-
ivering papers which do not go into the mail; and
where publisher seeks TO throw upon the post
master the labor of delivering his papers, for the
purpose Of relieving him from the oxnenao of tb,;