The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-03-03
POSTAL G UID E.
RATES OF POSTAGE WITHIN THE u. STAT

RATES OF POSTAGE WITHIN THE u STATES
Established by the Act Of March g. 1855
For every single letter in manuscript or paper
OF any kind in which information shall be asked
for or communicated in writing. by marks,
or signs sent in the mail not exceeding 600
miles, 3 cents
Sent over 5000 miles 10 :"
Upon all letters passing through or in the mail
except such as are TO or from foreign country
the postage must be 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 Thanking privilege.
For double letter there shall be charged dou-
bic the above rates; for treble letter, treble the
above rates. &c. Every letter or parcel not ex-
eeetng half an ounce (avoirduposl in weight is
single letter, and every additional weight of half
an ounce or of less than half an ounce is charged
with an additional single postage When adyertis-
ed, cent additional is charged on each letter For
a letter delivered by carrier, there is addi-
tional charge of not exceeding two cents
For drop letters, prepayment optional, mot to
be malled,l each, | cent
For all letters or packages (sEip 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 postoffce 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
For every additional ounce or fraction of an
ounce,
If the postage any newspaper periodical is paid
quarterly or yearly in advance, at the office where the
same either mailed delivered then half the above
rates are charged Newspapers and periodicals weigh
where published, likewise charged but half of the
above
Small newspapers and periodicals published monthly or
oener and pamphlets not containing more than 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 notwh-
standing the postage calculated each separate article of
such package would exceed that The postage on
all transient matter unless prepaid shall be charged do-
bic the aforementioned rates.
Books bound or unbound, not weighing over pounds
shall be deemed mailahle matter, and shall pay,
For all distances under 1900 miles per ounce cent
For all distances over 5000 miles Q
Fifty per shall be added in all cases when not pre-
paid All printed matter chargeable by weight shall be
weighed when dry The publishers newspapers and pc
rodcas may send to each other from their respective Off
ces OF puhcatlon free of postage copy of each publ
cation and may also send each actual subscriber en-
closed in their publications. bills and receipts same
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.
printed matter shall be sent at the above rates unless
either without any wrapper with open the ends
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
upon the or wrapper except the and address
OF the person whom the sent or if anythine
else is enclosed in such printed paper If these conditions
are not complied with, letter postage shall he charged
When any printed matter received during anv onarer
has been the post office for the whole the succeeding
quarter the postmaster shall sell it. and credit amount
of the sales directed by the Postoice Department
The establishment of private expresses for the convey
any letters packets packages of letters other
matter Tansmissabe in the United States mail (newspa
per pamphlets magazines and periodicals excepted from
one cy town or other place to any other city or
place in the United States between which the United
States mail IS regularly transported, is prohibited but
letters, &c may be carried by carriers slammed envel
pes Contractors may carry newspapers ont of the mails
Tor sale or distribution among subscribers penalty of
so 900 is imposed person taking letters Lro,G or
of the United for the purpose of he
sent out of the United States without the payment of
postage. F' N Vi
Letters addressed to different persons cannot be ,a
n the same envelope package under penalty of ten
dollars, unless addressed to foreign countries
RATES OF FOREIGN LETTER AND NEWSPAPER
POSTAGE.
The single of letter postage bv either the Havr
JOHNS or Bremen lines land the respect to the
5ftsh nes) to or from any point in the United States
except oregon and California; for or from any point in
treat britain Is "A centspre payment optional Newspa
ers each two cents United States and cents British
ach country to collect its postage whether the paper
sent from or received an the United States british
newspapers usually British postage paid by penny
lamp equal to two cents They must be in narrow
lands open the ends Letters for the continent of En-
ope to pass through Great Britain, in the open mail must
e prepaid p cents when the Atlantic conveyance by
nited States packets and cents when by British pack
is except from California Oregon, when the to be
repaid is in the former instance 20 cents and the lat
err 10 cents Thus, in the the Atlantic sea post
ge is to be collected at the mailing Office in the United
ate and in the other left to be collected together with
he British transit and other foreign postage at the office
delivery Between Great Britain and Oregon and Cali
1rnia the single rate of letter postage is 20 cents
Periodical works and pamphlets may be sent from the
nited states to the United Kingdom and ,ce yerso a
"o cents OF United states postage each if they do not
Nceed two ounces in weight and at cents ner ounca M
action of an ounce when they exceed that weight 10
ELECTED in all cases in the United States and the
M De subject to an additional like charge in the nitS
lngdom When sent to France, Algeria or cities in
turkey syria, and Egypt, in which France has postoe
5, rM EAgtond or to other foreign countries ,,itbo1t
1sSinq through Che United Kingdom they viii he h
e with cent an ounce fraction of an ounce Tinted
lates postage --pre payment required 'N
rave OF letter postage to from Bremen bV the
Ieme" hne, III cents-fre payment optio,oI Newspa-
each cents, being the United States and German
'slage-Te payment required Letters and newspapers