Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1863-07-04
PosT OFFICE, Council BLUFFS, Iowa, !
June 22d, 1863,

~a.e .-s June 22d, 1868.
Radical changes having heen made in
the Fostal Laws, deem it of importance
that the public should be made aware Of
the same, to some extent, and have there
fore prepared the following brief abstract {:
l. No box ct any Post Office shall be
assigned to the use of any person, until
the rent thereof has been paid for At least
one quarter.
2. The delivery Of any letter, newspa-
per, pbamphlet. or package whatever, un-
Ill the postage chargeable thereon shall
have been paid, ID absolutely prohibited
Printed matter must be retained until it
is paid for, either as package, or for .
quarter. ....
3. The single rate of letter will be three
cents throughout the United States and
its Territories and three cents for every
additional half ounce or fraction thereof.
4. All drop letters are chargeable with
two cents postage, to be prepaid, in all
cases, by stamps. 49,.
5. Double the prepaid rates TO be
charged on all letters only partly prepaid.
In oil cases where the failure to prepay
postage. 10 full is evidently intentional,
such letters win be forwarded with other
unmailsbls 4" matter to the Dead Letter
Office ........- .,-..., ..-
6. To entitls letter to registration, tho
regular postage must be prepaid by stamps.
In addition, a registration fee Of twenty
cents. A return will be sent to the writer,
frem2 the Ofice of delivery, showing to
whom and when such letter was delivered
:. Postage on all transcieut matter, is
fixed by the weights of the package This
standard weight is four ounces, aud must
be prepaid by stamps, At the rate of two
cents for each four ounces, or fraction
thereof A single paper cannot be sent
through the mails for less than two cents
but several papers may be sent for the
same sum-provided the weight Of the
package does not exceed four ounces.
8. Three circulars or any less number,
in one unsealed envelope, pass at the rate
of two cents. No extra charge is made,
as heretofore, for any business card or
address, printed on the wrapper.
3: Books are chargable with fonr cents
postage, for each four ounces, or fraction
Of it. Ss's
10. Postage on Weekly Newspapers, to
regular subscribers, FIVE cents per quarter;
Semi Weekly, ten cents; Tri Weekly, fif.
teen cents Six times week, thirty cents
Daily, thirty FIVE cents. Weekly papers
to persons residing in the county where
published, free.
II. Seeds, eneravings, maps, envelopes,
cards, paper. photographs, etc., are charg.
able with postage at the rate Of two cents
tnr fnrr Ire
sent 70 one address-to be prepaid in oil
cases, by stamps. .71.'~.., -..5 .~
II. Postnasters at the Office of deliv-
cry, are authorized, and it shall be their
duty, to remove the wrappers and enyel.
opes from printed and other matter, not
charged with letter postage, nor lawfully
franked, for the purpose of ascertaining
whether there is upon, or connected there
with the same, any matter or thing which
would authorize or require the charge of
q higher rate Of postage. If postmasters
cannot make this examination, without
destroying the wrapper, they must rate the
package with letter postage and collect
the sarne on delivery. !. =" t5.s@@'f -
10. Postuastefs must strictly conform
to these regulations, under penalty Of re-
inoval, for disfegatding The same in any
particular. 81 :. T5l1d~5 efsf = 5aa.aE
Now, therefore, hereby give fair notice
70 all cohcefned, that, after the first Of
July, no riail matter viii be delivered to
any person whom sOeyer, until ali postal
charges arc paid. All boxes. on which
the rent remains unpaid on the 10th Of
July, viii be discontinued, and tho mail
matter intended for tbe Same placed in
the general delivery. Such are the re-.
.quirements Of the Laws and Regulations
Of the Post Office Department. IT, THO
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