The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-03-02
POSTAL & UIDE.
RATEs or POSTAGE WITHIN mans Il srArr.

RATES OF POSTAGE WITHIN THE U. STATES,
Established by The Act cf March 3. 1855
For every single letter in manuscript or paper
OF any kind in which information shall be asked
Tor, OF communicated in writing, or by marks
or signs, sent in the mail exceeding 5000
miles, ooo. Scents.
Upon all letters passing through or in the mail
except such from foreign country
the postage must be pre- 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 ranking privilege.
For double letter there shall be charged dou-
BILE the above rates for treble letter, treble the
/ above rates, Every letter or parcel not ex
ceeding half an ounce (avoirdupos) in weight is
single letter, and every additional weight half
an ounce or of less than half an 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 an add-
tional charge of not exceeding one or two cents
For drop letters, prepaym optional, mot TO
be mailed,l each. cent
For all letters or packages ship letters convey
ed by any vessel not employed in conveying the
mail,
To this charge of cents is added cents when
the letters are not transmitted through the mail
but are delivered at the post-ofice 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. unseaed circular
or other article of printed matter, not exceeding
three ounces in weight, to any part of the United
I States,
For every additional or fraction of an
, ounce,
If the postage any newspaper or periodical is paid
quarterly yearly in advance the office where the
is either mailed delivered then half the above
charged Newspapers and periodicals weigh
ing and half ounces, circulated in the State
where published are likewise charged but half of the
above rates.
Small newspapers and periodicals. published monthly
oftener 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
cent for each ounce fraction of ounce, notwh-
standing the postage calculated each separate article
such package would exceed that amount The postage
All transient matter unless prepaid shall be charged dou
bic the aforementioned rates
Books, bound or unbound not weighing pounds
shall be deemed maiabe matter, and shall pay,
FOR all distances under 5000 miles per ounce, cent
For all distances over 5000 miles. .
Fifty per cent shall he added in all when pre-
paid All printed matter chargeable by weight shall be
weighed when dry The publishers of newspapers and pc
odcas send to each other from their respective Off
of publications. free of postage copy of each publ
cation and may also send to actual subscriber en-
closed in their publications bills and receipts for the same
free of postage. The publishers of weekly NAV
send each actual subscriber within the county where
their papers are printed and published one copy thereof
free OF postage.
printed shall be sent at the above rates unless
either without wrapper, with open the
sides that the character of the matter may seen
without removing the wrapper if any written print
ed communication is put the after its publication
or upon the cover or wrapper except name and address
of the person to whom the is anything
else enclosed in such printed paper If these conditions
complied with letter postage shall be charged
When any printed received during any quarter
has been IN the poStOce for the whole Of the succeeding
quarter the postmaster shall sell it. credit the amount
of the sales directed by the Post-ofce Department
The establishment of private expresses for the convey
ance fanny letters packets packages of letters other
matter transmissabe the United States mail (newspa
pamphlets magazines and periodicals exceped from
one city town or other place to anv other civ tow ~
place in the United States between which the United
States mail is regularly transported, prohibited but
letters &c may be carried by carriers in stamped envel
opes Contractors carry newspapers of the mails
for sale distribution among subscribers penalty of
$4,000 Is imposed on taking letters through or
any part of the United States for the purpose Of be
sent out the United States without the payment of
postage.
Letters addressed to 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 of letter postage by either the Havre
Collins or Bremen lines land the in respect to the
brush nes to or from any point in the United States,
except Oregon and California; for from any point in
treat Britain, is "A censpre payment optional Newspa
pers each United States British
each country to collect ats postage whether the paper
IS sent from received the United States British
newspapers usually come British postage paid by penny
stamp equal TO two cents They must be sent in
bands. open the ends Letters for the continent of Eu
rope, pass through Great Britain, in the open mail must
be prepaid q when the Atlantic conveyance by
United States packets and cents when by British act
cts except California Oregon, when the sum to be
prepaid is in the former instance 20 cents and in lat
ter 10 cents Thus in the one case the Atlantic sea
age is TO be collected at the mailing Office in the United
States and in the other left to be collected together with
the British transit and other foreign postage at the Office
oil dehVefy Between treat britain and oregon and Cali
fonia the single rate of letter postage is 20
Periodical works and pamphlets may be sent from the
United States to the United Kingdom and rice rersa AZ
two cents of United States postage each if they do
exceed two ounces in weight and cents per ounce or
fraction of an ounce when they exceed that weight 10 he
collected in all cases in the United States and the same
VIII be subject to an additional like charge the United
Kingdom. When to France Algeria or citias in
Turkey Syria and Egypt in which France has posofh
ces td England, or to other foreign countries ayoid
MTogh me united Kingdom they will be charged
Die with cent an ounce fraction of an ounce United
States postage-pTe- payment required
Single rate of letter postage to or from Bremen bv the
Bremen line 10 centspre- payment optional Newspa-
pers, each cents being the United States
oostagepre payment repaired Letters and newspapers