The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-09
POS 7 AL & UID E.
RATES OF POSTAGE WITHIN THE U. STATES

Established By tie Act Of March 8, 1855.
For every single letter in manuscript, or paper
of any kind in which information shall asked
for, communicated in writing or by marks
or signs, sent in the mail not exceeding 5000
miles, ava. . ooo. Ill. cents.
Upon all letters passing through or in the mail
except such as are to or from a foreign country,
the postage must be pre- paid, except upon letters
and 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 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 not ex-
ceeding half an ounce (avoirdupoisl in weight Is
single letter, and every additional weight Of half
an ounce or of less than half is charged
with an additional single postage. When advertis-
ed, cent additional is charged 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 mailed,) each, l 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 postofice 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, exceeding
three ounces in weight, to any part of the United
States,
For every additional ounce or fraction of an
If the postage any newspaper periodical is paid
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 of the
above rates.
Small newspapers and periodicals. published monthly or
oftener, and pamphlets containing sixteen
octave pages each when in single packages weigh
ing at least eight onnces to address, and prepaid by
axng postage stamps thereto shall be charged ONLY half
cent for each ounce fraction of ounce, notwth
standing the postage calculated each separate article
such package would exceed that The postage
milo clnlIL a,
bic the first mentioned rates
Books bound or unbound, not weighing pounds
shall be deemed mailable matter, and shall pay
For all distances under 5000 miles per ounce l cent
For all distances over 1900 miles,
Fifty per cent shall be added all cases when not pre-
pad All printed matter chargeabe by weight shall be
weighed when dry The publishers of and ne
rodlcals may send to each other from their respective Off
ces 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 for the
free of postage The publishers of weekly NAV
send to each actual subscriber within the county where
their papers are printed and published copy thereof
free of postage.
No printed matter shall be sent at the above rates unless
either without any wrapper with open the ends
or Sides so that the character of the may
without removing the wrapper any written or print
ed communication put the after its publication
or upon the wrapper except the address
OF the person to whom the same is sent or 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 post for the whole of the succeeding
quarter the postmaster shall sell it, and credit the
The establishment of private expresses for convey
letters packets packages letters or other
matter ransmissable in the United States mail newspa
pers pamphlets magazines and periodicals eXcepted from
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 be carried by carriers in stamped envel
Contractors newspapers ont of the mails
for sale distribution among subscribers. penalty of
$4,000 imposed any person taking letters through
any part of the United States for the purpose
ing sent out of the United States without the payment
postage
Letters addressed different persons be enclosed
in the same envelope package, under penalty of
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 the
British lnes to from any point in the United States,
Except Oregon and California; for or from any point in
Great Britain is "a optional Newspa
each country to collect its postage whether the paper
is sent from received an the United States. british
newspapers usually British postage paid by penny
stamp equal to two cents They must be sent in narrow
bands the ends Letters for the continent of Eu
rope pass through Great Britain in the open mail must
he prepaid q when the Atlantic conveyance is by
United States packets and cents when by British pack
cts except from California Oregon when the sum to be
prepaidis in the former instance 70 CENTS and IN the lat
ter 10 Thus in the case, the Atlantic post
age is to he 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, the Office
of delivery Between Great Britain and Oregon and Cali
fornia the single of letter postage is 20 cents.
Periodical works and pamphlets may be sent from the
United States the United Kingdom and uice at
United States postage each if they do
exceed in weight and at cents per ounce or
ounce, when they exceed that weight to be
collected in all in the United States the same
subject additional like charge the United
Kingdom. When sent to France, Algeria cities in
Turkey, Syria, and Egypt, in which France has to
ria England, or to other foreign countries cihom
passing through the United Kingdom they will be cbarpea
BILE with cent an ounce fraction of an ounce United
States postage-IJre payment required.
Single rate Of letter postage or from Bremen b the
Bremen hne 10 cents-rre payment optional Newspa-
pers, each cents being the United States and German
posiase-pre payment required Letters and newspapers
to other parts of the continent may also 90 by this line
subject to various rates
single rate of letter postage to from France ge-
ria, 10 cents the quarter Onceaynaent optional News
papers, periodical works. books stitched bound PAM
phiets catalogues papers omusc prospecuses circulars
and all other kinds printed matter addressed to France
Algeria or cities of Turkey Syria and Egypt in which