The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-09-19

regulAtODD-
In the man to Great Britain the single rate o. portage
10 "a cents. Prepayment optional On either letter or
OF packet Of Any weight the whole postage 1t all
prepaid no account taken Of t. and Il i entirely lest
to the sender The British post declines to change
The postage required TO be collected he United States
on newspapers, either for or from Great Britain
psns, each which has to b paid in Srss. Bss q Rom
the fact that newspapers from Great Britain pre-
paid usually BY penny stamp many pos%.sssTs have
accordingly Whereas they should invariably oeeot thu
United States postage also. Of cents each paper In
pass in the open mail through Great Britain 10 or from
sS%e other foreign country the sum to BE- collected IN
ssss Of 18th Nay is5s In sssrd 70 p.mpSiss
to Great Britain, section 149 Of "ReguAtops" er
the BILE above referred to.
In the Prussian closed mail to Germany thirty cents Is
any part Of the United States any part Of IS German
th.n the regular rats Of thirty is not son.sS
and Of lost to the sender note Of fractions
Of the rate could not be taken without seriously comph
eating the accounts BE- sides causing much additional
labor and trouble at the exchange Offices. But contrary
70 the practice under the United States and Bah POST
thirty cents credited whether the whole postage on
letter or packet prepaid or not leaving any balance
due 70 BE- collected st the office of delivery postastsr:
to collect the proper amount They should be pArticu
lar ALSO notice the route Indicated on the envelopes
mailed At som. Offices, marked 'via EDsand" Or
Prussan closed mail " for the German States are fire.
those mssisd Via Br!msn.S At Prussisn closed .aaI
assS nc In this particular great care is necessary To-
On newspapers from any part of the United stAtss to-
any part OF Germany including Prussia and Austria tha
iS postage is SIX cents each grspsymsnt required In
b ss. Ba either adS IN
the PIussan closed mail or otherwise.
By the Bremen mail the rule in regard to nsuffciently
prepaid letters is the same as under the Prussan
odssa1s hs.a Hsns R.%sas snd
hfteeD and to any ether place In Germany twenty tw0
CENTS prepayment optional In either case prspaynent
of any fraction of the full rate goes for nothing.
Newspapers, sent in the Bremen mail from the United
States must be prepaid two Ger s each and pamphlets
and magazines cent fac ion Of ounce
This is the United States postage ony-the foreign post
see having TO b paid At the point OF delivery On Az
and Bremen line Of steamers the whole postage UNITED
States and foreign is to be prepaid
which must be collected in the United States a. fol-
lowsBy the New York and Hsvre line, 20 oents which
pays to or from Havre; by United States steamers vi
southampton, the may be- and by BritAh stea-
mers via England cents, which pays only 70 or from
Of the postage in each instance is collected in France.
The Have line the cheapest and BY this route the
United States postage on newspapers is cents eaeh
and on pamphlets and magazines cent ounce OF.
fraction Of an ounce-prepayment required.
The rule for rating letters to all foreign coustres lex
cept the British North American Provnces ID to charge
one rate for half ounce under; two rates the
weight 10 half and exceeding An ounce; four
rates. and not excee ling two ounces ak ratee
If over two and not exces ding three ounces and 80 ON
charging two rates for every fractional part
an ounce over the first ounce this rule differs FROM
that followed in respect to domestic letters where each
half ounce fraction of half counts
only who are not careful to observe this
difference are liable of course to commit mistakes.
JAMES CAMPBELL, Postmaster General.
Pest Once Department Sept. Q, 1853.
25h May 1883 remains unchanged except respect to
Bremen, above explained and that the postage PAM
pn snd ~ TO- all foreign with thu
provinces, and the West Coast of South AmericA) ~
whatever line is one cent fraction Of an
ounce, instead Of two cents.
DECISION RELATIVE TO POSTAGE STAMPS.
The following correspondence relative to dividing the
oh s pos
at WashiIgton:-
CLEVELAND, O.. Sept. 10, 1859
Hon. s. R. HoBBrE-Sir-Shall We recognise half Of
twelve cent stamp cens fourth three cents
or any other fraction of any stamp In proportion 70 ts
ssY We are IN the constant receipt Of letters y
Tested ough San Francisco and New York Please i1
stluct us and oblige Yours &c:
r " DEL ArIaars'r. lsT DIVISION OFY1cHs
. September IL 1858.
letter Of the 10th nst that halves othsr fractional
parts Of postage stamps being unknown the law
The Act of Congress wersd the Postmaster General
and him only to provide and furnish postage stamps
the OF three cents and of such other de-
nominations as he might deem expedient. Ia psrsu-
ance Of the authority thus vested in him. he id issue
postage stamps Of the denominations of one three and
twelve CENTS others having been by him deemed
Tedent or necessary The requirement of the law hav
ing been fulfilled in this respect by the oy au
thorzed to execute it. it follows therefore that the
tempt to create other denominations by cutting postage
stamps into fractional parts, is Illegal assumption;
and that the legal value Of the stamps cut is thereby
destroys ed. Respectfully your ob't servt
8. r. AOBBIE, LIST Asst. p. N. General:
The Bulls from ROme-AdditiOnal App0int-
ments.
From the Freeman's Journal Sept. 1S
At the time with the appointments for Eccle-
sastical Province of New York made in our last paper