Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1851-06-18
From the National Intelligencer.

from the NatlOnal lntelllgencer. i.
OFFICIAL
DECISIONS UNDER THE NEW POSTAGE
ACT. made by the Postmaster GENERAL, after
consulting with the ATTORNEY GENERAL
The postage on all bound books and on all other
printed matter, ercept newspapers and periodical.
published at sntsruais not exceeding three months and
sent from the office Of publication to actual and bona
tide subscribers, must be prepaid.
If 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 If,
10y the neglect of a Postmaster such matter is sent
without any prepayment, the double prepaid rate
must be collected on delivery. Postage must be
charged on all letters, newspapers, and other
matter according to the distance on the route by
arh,ch they fo,1rarded and this (unless other
wise directed BY the sender) must be the route by
which they will soonest reach their destination,
although that may not be the shortest route
On letters to and from GREAT BRITAIN land the
Continent Of Europe, chen sent through Eagland1 the
rates of postage and modes of rating will be the
same as heretofore except as to letters to from
California and Oregon. in respect to which special
instructions will be hereafter given.
On all letters to from the Continent of Europe,
mt sent through England, the United States inland
and sea postage will in all cases be combined, and
will be twenty cents the single rate, without re-
gard to the distance the same are carried within
the United States. The mode of rating will be
the sane as heretofore. Full tabular statements
in regard 80 the rates of postage both foreign and
inland, will soon be published.
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 are several num-
bers to be delivered during the quarter. If, by
Increase in the size of the periodical, otherwise,
it shall appear that the whole quarters postage
was not so 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 unpaid rate, and the sub
scrber will be credited with emily the amount paid
in advance.
Under the provisions of the Cd section of the
new postage act, no newspaper other than those pub
Hshed ,ceekly entitled to circulate free Of
postage in the counties where published The Of
flee of publication is the office where the ncwspa-
per is printed.
In determining newspaper hostages, the dis
tances are to be computed from the office of pub
llcation and not from the county line of the
ty in which the paper is published and the dis
lance is also to be computed over the route On
which it is carried.
Newspapers published areekly only in county aa
joining the Canada line, may be sent free to Cana
de, provided they do not leave the county of pub
Newspaper publishers may send and receive
their exchange newspers to and from Canada free
of charge.
Anewspaper is not a periodical within the mean
ing and intent of the provision which requires the
postage periodicals to be paid in advance, and
declares that the postage thereon shall be onehalf
of the rates previously specified in the Cd section
of the act All subscribers to newspaper were and
still required by the provisions of the Both
ton of the act of March, 1926, to pay quarters
postage in advance but by SO doing they are not
entitled to have the postage reduced below the
established rates.
Payment IN aduance on newspapers and periodi-
Gals can only be made by the subscribers at the post
office aohere they to be delivered. The postage
on newspapers, periodicals, and other matter, not
chargeabe with letter postage, when sent out of
the United States, must be prepaid at the full rate
Publishers may prepay postage on their issues, but
can have no deduction of postage on account of
such prepayment. When periodical is publish
ed quarterly, the actual and bona fide subscriber
for such periodical may pay in advance, and have
the benefit of the advance payment, provided he
pays to the postmaster at the Office where he is
to receive the periodicl, before its delivery. fla
periodical is published less frequently than quar-
terly, the postage must be prepaid and at the full
rate.
Letters mailed before the LIST day of July though
delivered after, will, in all cases, be charged with
postage at the rates in force at the time of mail
ing thereof.
N. K. HALL, Postmaster General
PosT OFFICE DEPARTMENT, June IL, 1851.
REGULATIONS C0NCERNING POSTAGE
STAMPS"
Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT, June 10, 1851.
To facilitate the prepayment of hostages upon
letters and packages, postage stamps of the follow
ing denominations provided and furnished by
PDStmaSter General Mt tn
ton Of the ssact to reduce and modify the rates of
postage in the United States, and for other pur-
poses," approved Sd March, 1851, viz:
No. l. Printed in black, representing the head
of Washington, of the denomination of twelve
cents.
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