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Postal Law Summary.

Postal Law Summary.
The Richmond Dispatch has procur-
ed from ,he Post Office Department
all the postal laws now in force as
we'll as those which 90 into effect Oh
the first of June. from which we com.
pile the following:
FOR ALL EDITORS AND. ALL suBscRI-
BERS.
The now law allows no matter to
be sent free through the mails. So
weekly papers will hereafter be sub
icct to postage Of 20 cents per an
mum even in the counties wherein
published (and onl y 20 cents where
ever delivered.) Newspaper editors
will have to pay &c cents per annum
on their weekly, DO on their semi
weekly, 60 on their tri-weekly, sl.20
on their" daily exchanges. Nobody
can frank letters hereafter. But
Congress appropriated money to pay
postage upon dead letters to be sent
to Washington, and upon letters and
other mailablc matter to, be sent by
the President Of the United States,
and perhaps some of the heads OF
bureaus and the clerk OF the two
houses # Congress. No such appro'
nriation was made for COngrcsSmen
themselves.
PREPAYMENT ON NEWSPAPERS.
The postage on regularly:sen
newspapers and other periodicals is
not required to be paid at the office
from which they are sent, but may oe
paid there. 1t must be paid in ad
vance at the Office cf delivery if not
paid at the Office from which sent,
MISCELLANEOUS.
There shall be three classes of mai
matter: Letters, regular printed
matter, and miscellaneous matter. .:
All Liquids, polsons, glass, explosive
materials, and obscene books shall be
excluded from the'mails.
No package weighing more than
four pounds shall be received for con
veyance by mail, except books pub
lished or circulated by order of Con
gress.
. Postmasters shall notify the pub
Usher of any newspaper or other pc
riodical when any subscriber shal
refuse to take the same from the
Office, or neglect to call for it tor the
poriod of one month.
All mail matter deposited for mail
ing, on which at least one full rate ol
postage has been paid.as required by
law, shall be fol warded to it's destina
tion charged with the unpaid rate, to
be colleated on delivery.
If any mail matter on which by
law the postage is required to be pre-,
paid at the mailing Office shall by in
advertence reach its destination with
out such prepayment, double the pre-
paid rates shall be charged and col
Iected on delivery.
No mail matter shall be delivered
until the postage due thereon is PAID.
Drop letters two cents where there
is q system of free delivery, other
places one cent. :.
On newspapers and other periodl,
cal publications not exceeding four
ounces in weightsent from a known
office of publication TO regular sub
scribers postage shall be charged at
the following rates per quarter
nam ely: On publications issued less
frequently than3once week. at the
rata of one-cent for each issue; is
sued once week, five cents per quar-,
ter; and FIVE gents additional, for
Quarter, for each issue more frequent
than once a week. And All addition
al rate shall be charged for each ad:
ditional four ounces or fraction there
of in weight. E.
Every route agent, postal clerk, OF
other carrier of the mail, shall re-
celve any mail matter presented tc
him if properly prepaid by stamp
and deliver the same for mailing at
the next post-office at which he ar:
lives; but no fees shall be allowed
him therefor,
No money order shall be issued for
more than fifty dollars. aud the fees
therefor shall be: Fo, orders not ex'
ceeding ten dollars, five cents; ex'
ceeding ten and not exceeding twen'
ty dollars, ten cents; exceedingtwe
ty and not exceeding thirty dollars,
fifteen cents; exceeding thirty and
not exceeding forty dollars, twenty
cents; exceeding forty dollars, twen'
ty-fve cents. tt