The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-09-15
NUMBER 21.

at the office where the said periodical or
newspaper is delivered, or is paid yearly
or quarterly in advance at the Office
where the same is Mailed and evidence
of such payment is furnished TO the Office
of delivery in such manner as the Post
Office Department shall by general regu-
lations prescribe, onc-half of said rates
only shall be charged Newspapers and
periodicals not weighing over ono ounce
and half. when circulated in the state
where published, shall be charged one
half of the rates before mentioned Pro-
ridcd, That small newpapcrs and period
icals, published monthly or oftcncr, and
pamphlets not containing more than six
teen octave pages each, when sent in
single packages. weighing at least eight
ounces, to one address, and prepaid by
affixing postage stamps thereto shall be
charged only half of cent for each
ounce or fraction of an ounce, notwith-
standing the postage calculated on each
separate article or such package would
exceed that amount. The postage on all
transient matter shall be prepaid by
stamps or otherwise, or shall be charged
double the rates first above mentioned.
SIC. 2. And be it further enacted,
That books, bound or unbound, not
weighing over four pounds, shall be
deemed malable matter, and shall DO
chargeablc with postage at one cent an
ounce for all distances under three thou
sand miles, and two cents an ounce for
all distances over three thousand miles,
to which fifty per cent, shall be added in
all cases where the same may be sent
without being prepaid, and all printed
matter chargeablc by weight shall be
weighed when dry. The publishers of
newspapers and periodicals may send to
each other from their respective Offices
ofpublication free of postage one copy
each publication and may also send to
each actual subscriber, enclosed in their
publications. bills and receipts for tho
same free of postage. The publishers
of weekly newspapers may send to each
actual subscriber within the county
where their papers are printed and pub
lished one copy thereof free of postage
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That
no newspaper, periodical magazine, or
other printed paper or matter, shall bo
entitled to be sent at the rates of postage
in this act specified, unless the following
conditions be observed:
First. 1t shall be sent without any
cover or wrapper, or in cover or wrap
per open at the ends or sides, 80 that tho
character Of the matter contained there
in may be determined without removing
such wrapper. Second There shall be
no word or communication printed on the
same after its publication, or upon tho
cover or wrapper thereof, nor any writing
or marks upon it, nor upon the cover or
wrapper thereof, except the namo and ad-
dress of the person to whom it is to be
sent. Wrd. There shall be no paper
or other thing enclosed in or with such
printed paper and if these conditions
arc not complied with, such printed mat
ter shall be subject to letter postage; and
all matter sent by mail from one part
of the United States to another, the
postage Of which is not fixed by the
provisions of this act, shall, unless the
same be entitled to be sent free of post
age, be charged with letter postage.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That
if the publisher of any periodical, after
being three months previously notified
that his publication is not taken out Of
the office to which it is sent for delivery,
continue to forward such publication in
the mail. the postmaster to whose Office
such publication is sent may dispose of
the same for the postage, unless the pub
Usher shall pay it; and whenever any
printed matter of any description. re-
ceived during one quarter of the fiscal
year, shall have remained in the Office
without being called for during the whole
of any succeeding quarter, the postmas-
ter at such Office shall sell the same and
credit the proceeds Of such sale in his
quarterly accounts, under such rcgula-
| tions and after such notice as the Post
Office department shall prescribe.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted.
That SO much of the second section of
the act entitled "An act to modify and
reduce the rate of postage in the United
States, and for other purposes" APPROX
ed March third, eighteen hundred and
ffty'one, as relates to the postage or FREQ
circulation or transmission of newspapers,
periodicals, and other printed matter,
and all other provisions of law inconsist-
ont with the provision of this act arc
hereby repealed.
Sec 6. And bo it further enacted.
That when list of uncalled for letters
shall be published in any newspaper
printed in any foreign language, said list
shall be published in such newspaper
having the largest circulation within tho
range of delivery of said Office.
| Approved August 80. 1852.