The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-05

POS tai GUIDE,
RATES OF POSTAGE WITHIN THE U. STATES

| Established by the Act Of March 3, 1855
For every single letter in manuscript, or paper
of any kind in which information shall be asked
for, or communicated in writing or by marks,
| or signs sent in the mail not exceeding 5000
Sent over 900 miles 10 ' q
Upon all letters passing through or in the mail
except such as are to or from foreign country,
the postage must be prepaid, except upon letters
| and packages addressed to officers of the govern
ment on official business, and marked on the
envelope. This is not, however, to interfere with
the franking privilege.
For double letter there shall be charged dou-
BILE the above rates; for treble letter, treble the
above rates, &c. Every letter parcel not ex-
ceedng half an ounce (avoirdupos) in weight is
single letter, and every additional weight of half
an ounce or of less than half ounce is charged
| with an additional single postage When advertis-
| ed, cent additional is charged on each letter. For
letter delivered by a carrier, there is add
| tlonal charge of not exceeding two cents.
| he maed) each, l cent
For all letters or packages (ship letters convey
! mail 9
To this charge of 2 cents is added cents when
| the letters not transmitted through the mail,
but are delivered at the postofhce where deposit
! ed and the ordinary rates of United States post
| age are added when the letter is transmitted
! through the mails.
! Each newspaper, periodical, unsealed circular,
| or other article of printed matter, not exceeding
three ounces in weight, to any part of the United
States g
For every additional ounce or fraction of an
ounce,
If the postage any newspaper or periodical is paid
quarterly yearly advance, the office where
same is either mailed delivered then half the above
rates charged. Newspapers and periodicals not weigh
ing over one and half ounces circulated in the State
where published, are likewise charged but half
above rates.
Small newspapers and periodicals, published monthly or
oftener, and pamphlets not containing than sixteen
octave pages each, when in single packages weigh
ing at least eight onnces address prepaid by
axng postage stamps thereto shall be charged only half
cent for each ounce fraction of ounce nOtwith-
standing the postage calculated separate
such package would exceed that amount The postage
all
bic the first mentioned rates.
Books, bound or unbound, not weighing over pounds
shall he deemed mailable matter, and shall pay,
For all distances under 5000 miles, per ounce cent
For all distances over 2 900 miles
Fifty per cent shall be added in all when not pre-
paid All printed matter chargeabe by weight shall be
weighed when dry The publishers of newspapers and pc
rodcas send to each other from their respective
ces OF publication free of postage copy of each publ
cation and may also send to each actual subscriber
closed in their publications bills receipts for the same
free postage The publishers of weekly may
send to each actual subscriber within the county where
their papers are pred and published one copy thereof
free of postage.
either without any wrapper with open the
or sides that the character of the matter may seen
without removing the wrapper; any written print
ed communication is put on the same after its publication
the wrapper except the and address
OF the person to whom the same is sent or if anything
else enclosed in such printed paper If these conditions
are not complied with, letter postage shall be charged
When any printed matter, received during any quarter
has been in the office the the succeedn
quarter the postmaster shall sell credit the amount
of the sales directed by the Post office Department
The establishment of private expresses the convey
ance any letters packets packages letters or other
matter ransmissabe in the United States mail (newspa.
pers pamphlets magazines and periodicals excepted from
one city town, other place to any other city, town.
place in the United States between which the United
States mail is regularly transported is prohibited but
letters, &c may be carried by carriers stamped enve
opes Contractors newspapers ont of the mails
for sale distribution among subscribers penalty of
$4,000 is imposed person taking letters through
any part of the United States for the purpose Of be
sent out of the United States without the payment of
postage
Letters addressed different persons cannot be enclosed
in the same envelope package under penalty OF ten
dollars unless addressed to foreign countries.
RATES OF FOREIGN LETTER AND NEWSPAPER
POSTAGE.
The single rate postage by either the Havre
Collins or Bremen lines land the same in respect the
British lnes to any point in the United States
Except Oregon and California; for or from any point in
Great Britain is p payment optional Newspa
pers United States and cents British
country to collect its postage whether the paper
is sent from received an the United States british
newspapers usually come British postage paid by penuv
stamp equal to two cents They must be sent in narrow
bands open at the ends Letters for the continent of En-
rope to pass through Great Britain in the oe mail must
be prepaid Il cents when the Atlantic conveyance is by
United states packets and when by British mack
cts except from California Oregon when the sum to b.
prepads in the former instance &c cents and in the lat
ter 10 cents Thus in the case the Atlantic sea post
age is to be collected at the mailing office in the
states and IN the other left be collected with
the British transit and other foreign postage at the office
OF delivery Between Great Britain and Oregon and Cali
forna the single rate of letter postage is % cents
rerodcal works and pamphlets may be sent from the