The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-03
POSTAL GUID E.
RATES OF POSTAGE WITHIN THE U. STATES

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| Established by the act of March 3, 1855.
For every single letter in manuscript, 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 1900
miles, 8 cents
Sent over 5000 miles, 10
| Upon all letters passing through in the mail,
except such as are to or from foreign country,
| the postage must be paid, 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 a double letter there shall be charged dou-
BILE the above rates; for treble letter. treble the
above rates &c. Every letter parcel ex-
ceeding half (avoirdupois) in weight is
a 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
a letter delivered by carrier there is addi-
! tional charge of not exceeding one or two cents.
For drop letters, prepayment optional, mot to
| be maled EACH | cent
For all letters packages tship letters convey
| ed by any vessel not employed in conveying the
mail "
| To this charge of cents is added cents, when
| the letters not transmitted through the mail,
but delivered at the post-ofice where deposit
ed; and the ordinary rates of United States post
age 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, "
For every additional ounce or fraction of an
ounce, "
If the postage any newspaper or periodical is paid
quarterly yearly in advance at the Office where the
is either mailed or delivered then half the above
rates are charged Newspapers and periodicals weigh
ing over and half ounces circulated in the State
above rates.
Small newspapers and periodicals. published monthly or
ofener and pamphlets not containing than sixteen
octave pages each, when sent in single packages weigh
ing at least eight onnces address, and prepaid by
aXng postage stamps thereto shall be charged only half
the postage calculated each article
such package would exceed that amount The postage
all transient matter, unless prepaid shall charged dom
bic the aforementioned rates
Books, bound unbound, not weighing over pounds
shall be deemed mailable matter, and shall pay,
For all distances under 5000 miles per ounce cent
For all distances over 5000 miles,
Fifty per cent shall be added in all when not pre-
paid All printed matter chargeable by weight shall be
weighed when dry The publishers of newspapers and
riodlcals send to each other from their respective Off
of publication free Of postage copy of each pub
cation and may also send to each actual subscriber en-
closed in their publications. bills and receipts same
postage The publishers of weekly newspapers
send to each actual subscriber within the county where
their papers printed and published copy thereof
free of postage.
either without wrapper with open the ends
Sides that the character of the matter may seen
without removing the wrapper if written print
ed communication is put on the after its publication
the wrapper except the and address
of the person to whom the same sent if anything
else is enclosed in such printed paper If these conditions
not complied with letter postage shall be charged
When any printed matter received during any quarter
has been in the posoce for the whole the succeeding
quarter the postmaster shall sell it, credit the amount
of the sales as directed by the Post office Department
The establishment of private expresses the
ofany letters packets packages letters or other
matter tansmssable in the United States mail newspa
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 in stamped enve
opes Contractors carry newspapers of the mails
for sale or distribution among subscribers penalty of
$4,000 is imposed any person taking letters through
of the United States for the purpose of be-
ing of the United States without the payment
postage.
Letters addressed to different persons cannot be enclosed
in the envelope package under penalty of ten
dollars unless addressed to foreign countries
RATES OF FOREIGN LETTER AND NEWSPAPER
POSTAGE.
The single rate Of letter postage By either the Havre
Collins Bremen lines, land the in respect to the
British lines from any point in the United States
Except Oregon and California; for from any point in
Great Britain, "a ceItsre payment optional Newsna
pers cents Uted States and two cents Brit;sb
each country coectitS postage whether the nanar
is from received IN the United States TRr;t;Sh
newspapers usually British postage paid by nennv
stamp, equal to two cents They must be sent in narro
bands open at the ends Letters for the continent Of En-
rope, to pass through Great Britain the omen mail must
be prepaid Il cents whm the Atlantic conveyance by
United states packets and cents when by British pack
cts except from California or Oregon when the to be
prepads In the former instance &c cents and in the lat
Ter III cents Thus ia the case the Atlantic post
age Is to be collected 1t the mailing office the United
States and in the Other left be collected together with
the British transit and other foreign postage at the once
OF delivery Between Great Britain and Oregon and Jan
forna the single rate of letter postage is % cents
Periodical works and pamphlets may be sent from 'ne