The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-03-21
Pestal Law sSinp.ry.*ss.

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ONy II thH laSs otsthe Port S QEss
pf3 f3t@ant tow in fpFoe. WsfabatSR ~
lS asoompiled Ssate,asnt5 81 ssnSh "a f
them as are just now otpssaaIiSI infgi
rest to the public. and Of some oilers 81
more or leas. Importance tosdifsrsnt'
classes Of people:
The lEv nov allows ;po matter to be
sent free through the mails. So weekly
.s>aners Et-sl1 shAreafkesa "lta, eubjece to u
postage OF twenty scepts per .apuum,
,even in the Counties wherein Published
/ land only twenty cents wherever de.
ilivered). Newspaper editors will have:
to pay twenty cents per annum on their
weekly, forty on their semi-weekly. sixty
on their tri-weekly, 81 20 on their daily
exchanges. Nobody can frank letters
hereafter, But Congress appropriated
money to pay postagss upon dead letters
to be- sent to Washington, and upon
letters and other mailabfe matter to be
sent ont by the President of the United
States, and perhaps SONS of the heads
ot- bureaus and the clerks of the two
houses Of Congress. No suoh appropri-
alton was made for Congressmen5 them
selves.
The postage on regularly sent news.
papers aud other periodicals Is not re-.
CURED to be paid at the office from
which they are sent, but may be paid
there. It must be paid lin advance at
the Office OF delivery, if not paid ut the
Office from which sens.
: Seeds, cuttings, scions and roots,
which we're heretofore iuolnded nmong
articles which could be seut only in
packages weighing twelve. ounces or less,
are now allowed by new law (not here
quoted) to- be sent in packages not over
four pounds each in weight. "H !. j.,
There shall be three Glasses of mail
matter: Letters. regular printed matter
Pofsons; glass, explosive materials and
obscene books shall be excluded from
the mails. No package weighing more
than four pounds. shall be received for
conveyance by mail, except books pub
Hahed or circulated by order of Con
gress. No newspapers shall be received
to ba conveyed by mail, unless they nre
sufficiently dried and enclosed in proper
wrappers. -.
) 3NYoatage on all mail matter mast BE
paid by stamps at tho timo of mail.
ing, unless. therein otherwise. Sprosided
Tbifd o1ess UNJUST ppt s4ceeu twelve
5onncss In weight. ~ + j
:. Postmasters shall notify the publisher
pf any ne%spaperl Of Other periodicai
when any subscriber shah refuse to take
thHsame frop the ofioE, Or .iegleok to
caH for it for the period of one month.
when packages Of newspapers or
'othsr periodicals are received alta post
Office directed to- one, address, aud, the,
iaames Sf the subscribers Is Fio% t6eS
belong, With the postage FOR q quarter in
advance, is handed to the postmaster, he
shall deliver sp6h papers or peIiodicals
to their respective owners. -
The Postmaster: General may provide
by order the terms upon which 'rotlte
agents may receive from publishers or
any news agent in charge thoreof,, atfi
deliver the same as direptad if presented
and called Tor at the mail car o. steamer,
packages Of newspapers and othsr peri
odicals not received from or intended for
delivery at any post Office.
All mail matter deposited for mailing,
on which at least one full rate of postage
has been paid, as required by law, shall
be forwarded to its destination, charged
With the unpaid rate, to be collected on
delivery.
IF any mail matter on which, by. law,
the postage is required to be prepaid at
the mailing Office shall, by inadvertence,
Eeach its destination without such pre-
payment, double the pre-. paid rates shall
be ohsrged and collected on delivery.
No mail matter shall be delivered until
the postage due thereon has been paid.
No box at any post Office shall bo as
signed to the use of any person until the
rent thereof has been paid for at least
one quarter in advance, for which the
postmaster shall give O receipt.
j. On all mail matter which is wholly or
partly in writing, except book manu-
scripts md corrected proofs passing be-
tween authors and publishers, aud local
or drop letters; on all printed matter
which is 90 marked as to convey any
other or further information than is con.
yeyed BY the original print. except the
correction of mere typographical errors;
on oil matter which is sent in violation of
law or the regulation of the Department.
respecting enclosures; and all matter to
which no specific rate OF postage is as.
signed, postage shall be charged at the
rate OF three cents for each half ounce or