The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-03-11
POST AL G i Id E.
RATES OF POSTAGE WITHIN THE U. STATES

Established By the Act of March 3, 1856.
For every single letter in manuscript, or paper
! of any kind in which information shall be asked
/ Tor, or communicated in writing, by marks,
/ or signs, sent in the mail not exceeding ZOO
miles, 8 cents
| Sent over 900 miles, 10
Upon all letters passing through or in the mail,
except such to or from a foreign country
the postage must be prepaid, 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 Thanking privilege
For a 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-
! ceeding half an ounce tavoirdupois) 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 advertis-
ed, cent additional is charged on each letter. For
a letter delivered by a carrier, there is addi-
! tional charge of not exceeding or two cents
For drop letters, prepayment optional, mot to
! be mailed,) each cent
! For all letters 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-oice where deposit.
/ ed; and the ordinary rates of United States post
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, "a !.
For every additional ounce or fraction of an
/ ounce,
If the postage any newspaper or periodical is paid
quarterly yearly in advance the Office where the
same is either mailed delivered then half the above
charged and periodicals not weigh
ing and half ounces circulated in the State
above rates.
Small newspapers and periodicals. published monthly or
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 Tor each ounce or fraction of an ounce, notwth
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 first mentioned rates.
Books, bound or unbound not weighing over 4 pounds
shall be deemed maiable matter, and shall pay
For all distances under 5000 miles, per ounce, cent
For all distances g. 900 miles,
Fifty per cent shall be added in all cases when pre-
paid. All printed matter chargeabe by weight shall be
weighed when dry The publishers of newspapers and pc
odcas send to each other from their respective Off
publication free of postage one COPY of each pub
cation and may also send to each actual subscriber en-
closed in their publications bills receipts same
free of postage The publishers of weekly newspapers NAV
send to each actual subscriber within the county where
their papers are printed and published one copy thereof
free of postage.
either without any wrapper with open the ends
sides, that the character OF the matter be
without removing the wrapper; if any written print
ed communication is put on the after its publication
the wrapper the and address
of the person to whom the same is sent if anything
else enclosed in such printed paper If these conditions
are not complied with letter postage shall be charged
When any printed matter, received during any quarter
has been in the posoce for the whole of the succeeding
quarter the postmaster shall sell it, credit the amount
of the sales directed by the Postofce Department
The establishment of private expresses for the convey
ance fany letters packets packages of letters other
matter ransmissabe in the United States mail newspa
pamphlets magazines and periodicals excepedl from
one city town. other place any other city town 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 in stamped envel
opes Contractors may newspapers of the mails
Tor sale or distribution among subscribers penalty of
S5OOO is imposed any person taking letters through
over any part OF the United States for the of be
ing sent out of the United States without the payment of
postage
Letters addressed 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 Bremen lines land the same in respect to the
British nes to or from any point in the United States
Except Oregon and California, for or from any point in
Great Britain is "a centsre payment optional Newspa
pes each two cents United States and two British
each country collect its postage whether the paper
sent from received the United States british
newspapers usually British postage paid by penny
stamp equal cents They must be narrow
bands open at the ends Letters for the continent Eu
rope pass through Great Britain, in the open mail must
be prepaid q cents when the Atlantic conveyance is nv
United States packets and cents when by British pact
except from California Oregon when the sum to be
prepaid is in the former instance 20 aud in the lat
10 cents Thus in the Atlantic sea most
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
of delivery Between Great Britain and Oregon and Cali
fonia, the single rate Of letter postage is 20 cents
Periodical works and pamphlets may be sent from the
United states to the United Kingdom and rice versa
two cents OF United States postage each if they do not
exceed two ounces in weight and at per
fraction of ounce when they exceed that weight to be
collected in all cases in the United States and the
will be subject additional like charge in the United
hlngdom When sent to France Algeria, or cities In