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Postal Law Summary.

The Richmond Dispatch has procnr-
Fed from the Post Office Department
| all the postal laws now in force, as
well as those which go into effect on
the first Of June. from which we com,
pile the following: -...
FOR ALL EDITORS AND ALL sUBscRI-
The new law allows no matter to
be sent free through tho mails: S"
weekly papers will hereafter be sub
ect to postage of 90 cents per an
mum even in the. counties wherein
published (and onIy'20 cents where.
ever delivcrcG.) Newspaper editors
will have to pay &c cents per annnm
on their weekly, 20 on their semi,
weekly, 60 on their tri-weekly, sl.2o
on their daily exchanges. Nobody
can frank letters hereafter. hnt
Congress appropriated money to pay
p6sta re upon dead letters to DC sen,
to Washington, and upon letters ana
other mailablc matter to DC sent ny
the President Of the United States,
and perhaps some of the heads OF
bureaus and the clerks Of the tw"
honscs of Congress. No such appro-
prjalion was made for Cons:cssme"
themselves.
PREPAYMENT on NEWSPAPERS.
The postage on resular:ly:sen'
newspapers and other periodicals is
not required to be paid at the office
from which they are sent, but may be
paid there. 1t must be paid in. adj
vance at the office cf delivery if not
paid at the Office from which sent.
... MISCELLANEOUS.
There shall be three classes Of mail
matter: Letters, regular printed
matter, and miscellaneous matter.
b All liGaids, poisons, glass, explosive
materials, and obscene hooksshaH be
excluded from the mails.
No package weighing moro than
four pounds shall be received for con
reyancc by mail, except books pub
liShed or circulated by order OF Con-
sress.
Postmastersshall notify the pub
Usher of any newspaper or other pc
riodical when any subscriber shall
refuse to take the same. from the
,flice, or neglect to call for it tor the
period OF one month.
All mail matter deposited for mail
lns, on which at least one full rate OF
postage has been paid as required by
'aw, shall be 70. warded to its destina.
ion charged with the unpaid rate, to
oscolleated on delivery.
If any mail matter on which by
aw. the postage is qured to be pre-
paid at the mailing ottiec shall hy in.
advcrtence reach its destination with
out such prepayment, double the pre-
paid rates shall be charged and col
ected on delivery. :,
No mail matter shall be delivered
lntil'thc postage due thereon is paid.
Drop letters two cents where there
is u system of free delivery, other
places one. cent. .
On newspapers and other periodi-
cal publications not exceeding four
ounces in weight sent from q known
office of publication TO regular sub
>cribers postage shall be charged at
the following rates per quarter
namely: On publications issued less
frequently than once q week, at the
rata of onc-ccnt for each issue; is.
sued once week, five cents per quar-:
ter; and FIVE cents additional, for
quarter, for each issue more frequent
than once week And an addition
al rate shall be charged for each ad-
ditional four ounces or fraction there
of in weight.
Every route agent, postal clerk, or
other carrier of the mail, shall re.
celve any mail matter presented to
him if properly prepaid by stamp.
and deliver the same for mailing at
the next post-ofico at which he ar
rives; but no fees shall be allowed
him therefor,
No money order shall be issued for
more than fifty dollars. and the fees
therefor shall be: Fol orders not cx-
ceeding ten dollars, five cents; ex-
cceding ten and not exceeding twen-
ty dollars, ten cents; exceeding TWEEN.
ty end not exceeding thirty dollars,
fifteen cents; exceeding thirty and
not exceeding forty dollars, twenty
cents; exceeding forty dollars, twen-
ty-fve cents. tt