Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-02-11
INSTRUCTIONS TO PoSTMASTERS.
TRANSIENT PRINTED MATTER, &c.

/. Books, not weighing over four pounds may
be sent in the mail prepaid by postage stamps,
at one cent an ounce any distance in the United
States under three thousand miles, and at two
cents an ounce over three thousand miles, prori-
ded they are put up without cover or wrapper,
or in cover or wrapper open at the ends or
sides, so that their character may be determined
without removing the wrapper.
2. Small newspapers and periodicals, published
monthly or oftener, and pamphlets containing
not more than sixteen octave pages each, when
put up in single packages, weighing at least
eight ounces, to one address, and prepaid by pos
tage stamps, may be sent to any part OF the
United States at one.haF cent an ounce or frac.
ton of an ounce.
3. Unsealed circulars advertisements, business
cards, transient newspapers, and every other ar
ticle of transient printed matter, (except books
and packages of small publications, as above,
not weighing over three ounces sent IN the mail
10 any part Of the United States, are chargeable
with one cent postage each, to be prepaid by
postage stamps Where more than one circular
IL printed on sheet, or circular and letter,
each must be charged with single rate This
applies to lottery and other kindred sheets assu.
ming the form and name of newspapers; and
the miscellaneous matter in such sheets must al
30 be charged with one rate. business card
on an unsealed envelope of a circular subjects
the entire packet to letter postage. Any tran.
sient matter, like circular orhandbill, enclosed
in or with a periodical or newspaper sent to a
subscriber or to any other person, subjects the
whole package to letter postage; and whenever
subject to letter postage from being sealed or
from any cause whatever, all printed matter,
without exception. must bs prepaid or excandod
IL. T. tba 1uiu nft rho tunnq q fer
ut the mailing Office, as well as at the Office OF
delivery carefully to examine all printed matter,
in order to sec that it is charged with the proper
rate of postage and to detect fraud. At offices
where postage stamps cannot be procured. post.
payment of pogtage on transient matter; but
they should bs careful to kcepa supply of stamps
on hand.
1. 1t is no part of the duty of postmaster
to receive and deliver to subscribers any other
newspapers than those which come in the mail,
or to put the address on newspapers sent to
clubs, or to deliver them from furnished list:
nor should lie do either, even through courtesy,
unless it NAV be done without interfering with
the legitimate business Of his office.
REGISTRATION OF LETTERS.
5. The regulations and instructions to post.
masters for carrying into effect the ID section OF
the act of March ;, 1855, providing for the reg.
isration of valuable lotters, are modified AZ fol.
lows, viz:
First. So much Of sections 4, 5, and of
these regulations as requires that packages Of
registered letters shall be sealed, is hereby re-
voked.
Second. All registered letters are, before mail
ing, to be numbered on the upper letthand cor
Aer; their numbers to correspond with those on
the letter bills in which they are entered.
Third. Each registered letter, or package of
registered letters, will be enclosed in Il wrapper
in the usual manner, and if there be package
of unregistered letters to be sent by the samr
mail, the package of registered letters will he
placed in such package without being tied, anal
the whole will then he carefully tied up into one
package, addressed to the office of its destina.
ton, and placed in its appropriate bag at the
moment when that bag is to be finally locked
and sent from the Office Ii no unregistered let
ters are to BIZ sent BY that mail, the package oi
registered letters is to he tied and forwarded in
the same manner without being sealed.
f1urth The registered letter bill will be en-.
closed in a separate envelope, addressed to the
postmaster, as now required, and will be for
warded by the usual route as an unregistered
letter.
Fifth. The numbers given to registered let
tors at the office of mailing are not to be chang.
cd in the accounts or letter bills Of distributing
Offices through which they may pass.
Sixth. Postmasters are required to see that
the postm0rk of every letter whether written or
stamped) i, clear and distinct, so that the place
and date of mailing can be readily determined.
JAMES CAMPBELL,
Postmaster General.
Pnsr 0rrIcE DEPARTMENT. January 3. 1857.