The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-03-31
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each additional ouure, prepayment required.
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not containing more than 10 octave pages, in packages OFFS ounces or
over, y cent per ounce.
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RATES OF LETTER POSTAGE TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
To England, ireland, and Scotland, California, Oregon, and Washing
ton exceptedD "a cents 4 or From California, Oregon, or Wash
To Franco and Algeria, by French mails, Is cents x o., so cents
To German States, by Prussian closed mail 30 cents x or.
Do by Bremen mail, except bremen, Frankfort, Lux.
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70 Hamburg, by Hamburg mail, 10 cents "a OF.
TO Frankfort and wurtemburg, by Bremen or Hamburg mail, %
To Inxemburg, by Bremen or Hamburg mail, 25 cents u OF.
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n IO DO by Bremen r tAmDurgn mail, IL cents x OF,
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10 West India Islands, not Britishl except Cuba, Turks Islaud, Car
u n u Honduras samss s ~ . 0sn,s e !" aor When se an,aS Sali qpan S nn,1nc
office 5 under $500 miles, and "A cents X o. when distance ox-
10 Canada, New Brunsaick, Cape Breton, Prince Edwards Island
Nova Scotia, and New Foandland, 10 cents Il or when distance is
not ever 5000 miles from line of crossing, and Is cents y OF. II
distance exceeds 1000 miles.
70 Aspinxai and Panama, New Granada, and Mexico, 10 ccnts y OF,
when distance does not exceed $500 miles, and 20 cents Z distance
exceeds 900 mhes-prtpaid.
10 Ecuador, Bolivia, and Chill, 81 cents u oz.-prpaid.
10 West Indies, British, except Turks Island 10 cents i OF. if dis.
lance does not exceed $500 mile and 20 ccpts y or If distance
10 sandwich Islands, New south Wales, and China, by mail 10 San
Francisco, thence by private ship, 10 cents ~ oz.-prTaia #s
Nor.-In all cases where the word prepaid is not added, the pre-.
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