Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-04-10
Postage Regulations.

Postage Regulations.
By the terms of recent legislation, the
franking privilege is abolished, and it
is provided that, "All laws, and parts
oflaws, permitting the transmission by
mail of any free matter whatever, be,
and the same are hereby, repealed,
from and after June 30, 1873" This
cuts off the tree exchange of newspa-
pers between publishers, and the free
circulation of papers within the coun-
ties of publication.
No changes in the rates of postage
have been made, and, consequently,
postage charges will be as follows:
LETTERS.
To all parts of the United States,
three cents per half ounce.
vPAPERs, MAGAZINES, ETC.
Pamphlets, occasional publications,
transient newspapers, magazines, hand
bills, posters, unsealed circulars, pros
pectuses, book manuscripts, proof
sheets, corrected proof-sheets, maps,
prints, engravings, blanks, flexible
patterns, sample cards, photographic
paper, letter envelopes, postal envel-
opes and wrappers, cards, plain and
ornamental paper, Photographic repre-
sentatiOns of different types, seeds,
cuttings, bulbs, roots, and scions, can
be transmitted through the mails at
the rate of one cent for each two ounces
or fraction thereof.
Books, two cents for each two ounces
or fraction thereof. Samples of mer-
chandise, metals, ores, and mineralog-
ical specimens can pass through the
mails in packages not exceeding twelve
ounces, at the rate of two cents for
each tW o ounces or fraction thereof; to
be left open at the ends for eXamina-
ton, and to contain no writing other
than the address.
All liquids, poisons, glass, explosive
materials, obscene books, and all other
matter liable to injure the mails or
those having charge thereof, shall be
excluded therefrom.
REGULAR PUBLICATIONS.
Newspapers sent by mail must be
prepaid by stamps, unless regularly
issued and sent to regular subscribers
by publishers or newsdeaIers, when the
following rates are charged, payable
quarterly in advance, either at the
mailing or delivery Office:
Dailies So cents.
Six times week 80 cents.
Tri-weeklieS 10 cents.
Semi-weeklies 10 cents.
WeeklieS . 5 cents.
Semi-monthly, not over ozs s cents.
MOnthlies, not over OzS =. s cents.
Quarterlies, not over Ozs 1 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 ounces or fraction
thereof; and periodicals weighing
!
two cents, prepaid at all letter-carrieI
offices.
The pO 'tage on regular papers, &c,
| must be paid in advance, either at the
place of delivery, to the carrier, or at
the Office, otherwise they will be charge
| able at transient rates.
BOOK MANUSCRIPT.
Book manuscript passing between
authors and publishers requires pre-
payment at the rate of one cent for
each two ounces or fraction 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 domestic.
All letters not prepaid by stamps, all
such as are received in the office with
stamps cut from stamped envelopes, OF
with such postage STAMPS as were in
use prior to 1861, or with revenue
stamps on them, are treated "as un-
mailahle" and sent to the Dead Letter
Office.
Letters which have not heen deliver
ed can be forwarded, without addition
al charge, upon Il written request.
Letters once delivered from a post
office cannot be remailed without pre-
payment of postage.
Departmental postage after June 80,
1873, will be prepaid by special stamps,
prepared and furnished by the Post
Office Department.
1t will, nevertheless, become impOr-
tant for correspondents of the several
departments and bureaus to fully pre-
pay their postage after the 30th of June
next. Of course, the local officers and
agents of the departments will be in
structed to this effect.
A good story is told of the students
of an institute which is located in the
New England State. A year or two
since, just before Lent, the Principal
of the school lectured the boys upon
the propriety of abstaining from some
accustomed article of diet DUNG Lent,
and desired each one to write the name
of the article upon slip of paper, and
hand them to him the next moring at
the opening of the school. The papers