The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-05-03
POSTAGE MATTERS.
NO More scee Matter to be Sent
Through the Mails-The Post nj Rates
as They Now Stand.

No More .nree Matter to be Sent
Through the Mails-The Postal Rates
as they Now Stand.
From the Postal Record
| The recent Cong1 essional legislation
provides that all laws and parts OF
laws 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| and the same are hereby repealed from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 free exchange of
newspapers between publishers, and
the free circulation of papers within the
counties of publication.
No changes in the rates of postage
have been made, 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,
transient newspapers, magazines, hand
bills, posters, unsealed circulars, pros
pectuses, book manuscripts, proof
sheets, maps, prints, engravings, blanks,
flexible patterns, sample cards, photo
graphic paper, letter envelopes, postal
envelopes and wrappers, cards, plain
and ornamental paper, Photographic
representation of different types, seeds,
cuttings, bulbs, roots and scions can be
transmitted through the mails at one
cent for each two ounces or fraction
thereof.
Books, two cents for each two ounces
or fraction thereof.
Samples of merchandise, metals,
ores and neurological specimens can
pass through the mail in packages not
exceeding twelve ounces, at the rate of
two cents for each two ounces or frac-
ton thereof to be left open at the
ends for examination, and to contain
no writing but the address.
All liquids, poisons, glass, explosive
materials, obscene books, and all other
material 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 subscri-
bers by publishers or newsdealers,
when the following rates are charged
payable quarterly in advance, either at
the mailing or delivery Office:
Dallles. Observation-Disclosures. .35 cents.
Six times week. ............ ...... 30 cents.
1rl-weekly .........-......1 Is cents.
Semi-weekl Observation-Disclosures cents.
Weekles Observation-Disclosures. cents.
Semi-monthly, not over ozs........ 6 cents.
Monthes, not over oZs ..-........ cents.
Quarterlies, not over ozs........... 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 ounces or fraction
thereof; and periodicals weighing
more than two ounces are subject to
two cents, prepaid at the letter carrier
offices.
The postage on regular papers, etc,
must be paid in advance, either at the
place of delivery, to the carrier, or at
the Office, otherwise they will be
chargeable 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,
etc, is subject to letter rates of post
age.
GENERAL RULES.
Full prepayment by stamps is re-
CURED 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, or
with such postage stamps as were in
use prior to 1861, or with revenue
stamps on them, are treated as Gun
mallable " and sent to The Dead Letter
Office.
Letters which have not been deliv-
cred can be forwarded, without addi-
tional charge, upon a 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
Postoffice 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