The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-03-08
70 : I AL G UIDE,
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, Or manor
OF any KIND in which information shall be asked
for, or communicated in writing or by marks
Ut signs, sent III the mail not exceeding 8 600
"! Sent over GOO milo. 8 cents
Upon all letters passing through or in the mail
9 exc such as are to or from foreign country,
the postage must he pre- paid, except upon letters
ana packages addressed to officers of the govern.
ment on official business, and so marked on the
envelope This is not, however, to interfere with
the ranking privilege.
For a double letter there shall be CHARGED dom
pie the above rates for treble letter, treble the
above rates, &c. Every letter or parcel not ex
ceedlng half an ounce (ayoirdupos) 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 adverts-
eo, cent additional is charged on each letter For
letter delivered by carrier there is an addi
uOnai charge OF not exceeding or two cents
ho ror ; crop letters, prepayment optional mot to
For all letters packages tship letters convey
ru i ~ any vessel not employed in conveying the
To this charge of cents is added cents. when
me me letters are not transmitted through the mail
nut are delivered at the post-ofice where deposit
cd 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
States, :.
For every additional ounce or fraction of an
ounce,
If the postage on any newspaper or neriodical il
quarterly or yearly in advance the office where the
same Is either mailed or delivered then half the above
rates are charged Newspapers and periodicals not weigh
ing over and half ounces circulated in the STATE
where published, likewise charged but half of the
above rates ~ " ~
Small newspapers and periodicals published monthly o
oitener and pamphlets containing more than sixteen
NV " taG' when sent in single packages, weigh
s at Ieast elght onnces to address, prepaid by
aNng postage stamps thereto shall charged only half
cent Tor each ounce or fraction of ounce notwith
s'aue te postage calculated each separate article of
such package would exceed that amount The postage on
a transient matter unless prepaid shall be charged ou
BILE the first mentioned rates
Books, bound or unbound not weighing over nopnds
shall be deemed maiabe matter, and shall paw
For all distances under 5000 miles per ounce cont
For all distances over 1900 miles .
Fifty cent shall be in all cases when not nra
paid All printed matter chargeable by weigbt shall he
weighed when dry The publishers newspapers and ne
rodlcals may send to each other
Oh puphcao iree Of postage one copy of each publ
closed in their publications bills and receipts for the
ee OF postage The publishers of weekly newspapers may
send to each actual subscriber within the county wbee
free of postage. ~ ~
No printed matter shall be at the above rates unless
eher without any wrapper or with open the ends
sides that the character the matter NAV be seen
d communication Is put on the after its publication
upon the wrapper except name and address
u the person to whom the same is sent anything
Use enclosed in such printed paper If these conditions
Ire not complied with letter postage shall be charged
When any printed matter, received during any quarter
been in the postofce whole of the snccaedi
quarter the postmaster shall sell it. and credit the amonn
# the sales as directed by the Posofce Department
The establishment of private expresses for tbs co
ofany letters packets packages of letters or Other
natter transmssable in the United States mail nawso
ers pamphlets magazines and periodicals excepte from,
ne CITY, town. or other place to other cy town or
lace in the United States, between which the United
tates mail is regularly transported prohibited bnt
tiers &c may be carried by carriers in slammed enveI
pes Contractors carry newspapers ont of the mails
II sale or distribution among subscribers penalty Of
oOoO is Imposed on any person taking letters THROUGH or
any part of the United States for the purpose Of he
sent out of the United States without the payment f
)stage -
Letters addressed different persons cannot be enclosed
the same envelope package under a penalty of ten
'llars unless addressed to foreign countries
ArEs OF FOREIGN LETTER AND NEWSPAPER
POSTAGE. .
The single rate of letter postage By either the Hayre
'hns or Bremen lines land the in respect to the
tsh nes to or from any point in the United States
kept Oregon and California; for from any point in
each two cents United States and two cents Riti%
oh country to collect ats postage whether the naner
sent from or received in the United States british
wspapers usually British postage paid by a pennv
imp, equal to two cents They must be sent in narrow
nds open at the ends Letters for the continent of E
Pc to pass through Great Britain, in the omen mail must
prepaid q cents when the Atlantic conveyance is INV
lifted States packets and cents when by British mach
except from California or Oregon when The sn 80
an.id Is IN tha frroa ;Staroe oe the sum to be
10 cents Thus, in the case, the Atlantic SEQ Yost
is to be collected at the mailing Office in ~ sea post
ates and in the other left to be collected together VII
British transit and other foreign postage M tho s.
delivery Between Great Britain and Oregon and Cali
mia, the single rate of letter postage is 20 cents
'erlodical works and pamphlets may be sent from tb
TIED states to the United Kingdom and pice persa at
cents OF United States postage EACH If thev do pt
eed two ounces in weight and at cents per ounca ~
tlon OF an ounce when they exceed that weight IN he
ected in all cases in the United States and the SAM
be subject to additional like charge in the Un;,S
gdom When sent to France, Algeria or cities in ID
key, syria, and Egypt, in which France has postoff
MA England or to other foreign countries ,c;t6ota
arg through the United Kingdom they viii be chargea-
win cent an ounce or fraction of an ounce United
les postage-pre payment required
ngle rate OF letter postage to from Bremen by the
men aae, III cents-fre payment optional Newspa scr
each cents, being the United States and German and
payment required Letters and newspapers wit