Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-12
RATES OF POSTAGE.

By the terms of recent legislation the
Franking Privilege was abolished, and after
June 3Oth, instant, the payment of postage will
be exacted from subscribers to county news
papers, and also postage upon all exchanges
at the office of delivery. No changes, how
ever, have been made in the rates OF postage,
and consequently postage charges will be as
follows:
To all parts of the United States, three
cents per half ounce.
PAPERS, MAGAZINES, ETC.
Pamphlets, occasional publications, tran
sient newspapers, magazines, hand-bills, post
ers, unsealed circulars, prospectuses, book
manuscripts, proofsheets, corrected proof
sheets, maps, prints, engravings, blanks, hex-
ible patterns, sample cards, phonographic
paper, letter envelopes, postal envelopes and
wrappers, cards, plain and ornamental paper,
Photographic representations of different types,
seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots and scions, can be
transmitted through the mails at the rate OF
once cent for each two ounces or fraction
thereof
Books, two cents for each two ounces or frac-
ton thereof Samples Of merchandise, metals,
ores and neurological specimens can pass
through the mails, in packages not exceeding
twelve ounces, at the rate of two cents for
each two ounces or fraction thereof; to be left
open at the ends for examination, and to con-
tain no writing other than the address.
All liquids, poisons, glass, explosive mate
rials, obscene books, and all other matter
liable to iniure the mails or those having
charge thereof, shall be excluded therefron.
REGULAR PUBLICATIONS.
Newspapers sent by mail must be prepaid
by stamps, unless regularly issued and sent
to regular subscribers" by publishers or news
dealers, when the following rates are charged,
payable quarterly in advance, either at the
mailing or delivery Office:
Dailies, cents.
Six times week, ...5O cents.
Tri-weeklies, cents.
Semi-weeklies, cents.
Weeklles,. Observation-Disclosures. cents.
Semi-monthly, not over ounces,..... cents.
Monthles, not over ounces, ,......... cents.
Quarteries, not over ounces,....... l cent.
Newspapers and circulars dropped into the
office for local delivery must be prepaid at
the rate of one cent for two ounces, and an
additional rate for every additional two oun-
ces or fraction thereof; and periodicals weigh
ing more than two ounces are subject to two
cents, prepaid at all letter,carrier offices.
The postage on regular papers, &c, must
be paid in advance, either at the place of de-
livery, to the carrier, or at the office, other
wise they will be chargeable at transient rates.
BOOK MANUSCRIPT.
Book manuscript passing between authors
and publishers requires prepayment at the
rate of one cent for each two ounces or frac-
tion thereof
Manuscript intended for publication in
newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, &C., is
subject to letter rates of postage.
GENERAL RULES.
Full prepayment by stamps required on all
transient printed matter, foreign and domes-
tic
All letters not prepaid by stamps, all such
as are received in the Office with stamps cut
from stamped envelopes, or with such postage
stamps as were in use prior to 1861, or with
revenue stamps on them, are treated as Gun
mailable," and sent to the Dead-Letter Office.
Letters which have not been delivered can
be forwarded, without additional charge, upon
written request.
Letters once delivered from a postofice
cannot be remailed without prepayment of
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