The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-09-25

llshers OF newspapers and periodicals may
send to each other from their respective
offices of publication free Of postage one
copy Of each publication and may also
send to each actual subscriber, enclosed
in their publications, bills and receipts
for the same, free of postage. The pub
fishers of weekly newspapers may send
to each actual subscriber within the coun
ty where their papers are printed and
published one copy thereof free of post
age. ae
SEC. 3. find be 1t further enacted,
That no newspaper, periodical, magazine,
or other printed paper or matter, shall be
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 coyer or wrap
per open at the ends or sides, SO that the
character of the matter contained therein
may be determined without removing such
wrapper. Second. There shall be no
word or communication printed on the
same after its publication, or upon the
cover or wrapper thereof, nor any writ
ing or marks upon it, nor upon the cover
or wrapper thereof, except the name and
address Of the person to whom it is to be
sent. Third. There shall be no paper or
other thing enclosed in or with such
printed paper; and if these conditions
are 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 postage, be charged
with letter postage.
Sec. 4. And be 1t further enacted,
That if the publisher of any periodical,
after being three months previously noti-
fed that his publication is not taken out
Of the Office to which it is sent for deliv-
cry, 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, receiv-
ed 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 Postmaster at
such office shall sell the same and credit
the proceeds of such sale in his quarterly
accounts, under such regulations and af-
ter such notice as the Post Office Depart
ment shall prescribe.
SEC. 5. find be 1t further enacted.
That so much of the second section of
the act entitled can act to modify and
reduce the rates of postage in the United
States, and for other purposes" approved
March third, eighteen hundred and fifty
one, as relates to the postage or free cir
culation or transmission of newspapers,
periodicals, and other printed matter, and
all other provisions of law inconsistent
with the provisions Of this act are hereby
repealed.
Sec. 6. find be it further enacted,
That when list Of uncaled-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 the
range Of delivery Of said office.
Approved, August 80, 1852.