Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1861-04-06
POSTAL AFFAIRs-.IIPORTANT
CHANGES.

Horticultursts and pomolgists will be
glad to learn that by the new postal ar
engagements passed at the late session of
Congress seeds or cuttings are classed as
malable matter in packages, and are to
be charged with postage at the rate of one
cent an ounce when sent under 800 miles,
and two cents an ounce when sent over
that distance. Inc package must not ex-
coed eight ounces.
The postage on letters conveyed in the
mails from any point east of the Rocky
Mountains to any State or Territory on
the Pacific coast. and from any State or
| Territory on the Pacific coast to any point
east Of the mountains, has been fixed by
the recent law, at ten cents. Heretofore
letters conveyed by the Isthmus routes
have been suhject to the tencent rate,
while those carried overland between Mis-,
souri, and California were only subject to
the three cent rate.
The act empowers the Postmaster, Gem
eral to procure and furnish letter sheets
with postage stamps impressed thereon,
cont ining in one both a ,neet and an en-
lope.
Another section requires that letters
which nave been advertised shall be re.
turned to the Post Uace Department, if
unclaimed, two months after the date Of
The advertisement; except in cases where
letters are directed to scaD0rts for persons
in board Of designated vessels expected to
arrive; and, also, in cases where letters
are especially marked TO be retained for
| Ian, n1
the time dUcing which dead letters are
detained at the office Of delivery ABOUT one
month. TAG unclaimed money obtained
rom dead letters is to be anphed here after
TO promote the efficiency OF the dead letter
o.lce, ry providing for a more careful ex-
animation and the return Of a larger num-
be-: TO the writer's.
We observe, also, a change in the rates
OF postage on what are TECHNICAL: called
ship letters that is, letters that come by
occasional packets or vessels, anl not by
the regular mail lines iierpt Co. n through
a lapse in the law, the postage on single
letter Of this kind. delivered witain the port
where the vessel arrived. was six cents,
while on similar letter by the same YES
sci, to be forwarded thousands of miles
further through the mails. the postage was
but five cents. The rate is now 10 Oe five
cents when delivered at the port Of arrival.
and the ordinary postage, with two cents
added, when the letter is TO be forwarded
To newspaper Publishers and their GUS
toners IN the interior, the most important
section is that which makes it lawful for
persons known as regular dealers in news,
i papers and periodicals to receive BY mail
such quantities Of either as thew may re
qul~e, and to nav the postage thereon as
the, mag be received, al the same rates
as regular subscribers to sech publication -
This is 10 give the benefit of the reduced
quarter y rates to newspaper dealers who,
on account OF the irreg GlarltY in the mum
Der Of papers and periodicals they order,
find it imposs bic to pay postage quarterly
in advance
Two other sections cna're the s"ore Of
mailable mater, to. be paid for according
to the weight 81 the package, by inc.udiug
| maps, enrrayIars, Autographs or nuoto-
! graphic prints On rollers or paper c8ye~.;
books, bound OF unbound. phoqographic
| paper, and envelope; all OF which are to
be rated at one cent an ounce inr any
place within the United States not over
| LOO miles aad two cents IA oN0cc for
any distance over 100 niles, preua 4 hr
postage Stamps. The packages ma,t not
exceed touc potnis. Ca.i5. binlk or
| ir'nIcd. in packages weloh'"E at least
| EIGHT ounces, are n..-de m.s.i;lnIr matter =.
| til same rates. eTared in the same Wy.
-B"l'moIc .&NH.