Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-07-02

Circulars, notices, &c, may bear
the signature of the sender, with his
trade orprofession and may also indi-
cate the place of origin and the
date.
Books shall be admitted with
manuscript dedication or compll-
mentary inscription from the author.
1t shall be permitted to mark with
simple stroke the passages in the
text to which it is desired to call at
tcntion.
Printed or Autographed stock and
share lists, prices current and market
reports shall be admitted with the
prices added in writing or by means
Of any impression whatever.
No other MS. addition will be al
lowed, nor even those produced by
means of typographical che racters, it
the latter tend to take from the packet
it's general character.
Such Of the aforementioned arti-
cles as shall not fulfill the foregoing
conditions will be considered as un
paid letters and charged accordingly,
with the exception of newspapers
and printed papers, such as circulars,
notices, &c, which will not be for
warded in such cases.
PATTERNS OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
TIONS OF FORM.
Patterns of merchandise will only
be admitted to the benefits of the re-
duced postage extended to them by
the treaty under the following condi-
tons:
l. They must be placed in bags or
in boxes, or envelopes, removable so
as to admit of an easy examination.
2. They must not have any salable
value, nor bear any MS. writing other
than the name or the trade or profess
sion of the sender, the address of the
person for whom the packet was in
tended, manufacturers or trade
mark, numbers and prices.
3. 1t is forbidden to introduce these
articles into letter or into a packet
of any other kind, save in the case in
which they form an integral part OF
a particular work.
4. Patterns which are not in accord
ance with the requisite conditions will
be charged as letters, except those
which are valuable. The letter will
not be forwarded, nor those the con-
veyance of which would be attended
with risk or danger.
LEGAL AND COMMERCIAL DOCUMENTS.
The following articles are consid-
cred legal and commercial documents
and will be admitted as such to the
reduced postage extended to them by
the treaty: Acts and deeds of all
kinds drawn up by public function
aries, invoices, the various documents
on the service of insurance companies,
copies or extracts of deeds under
private seal written upon stamped OF
unstampcd paper, scores or sheets OF
manuscript music and in general all
manuscript papers and documents
which have not the character OF an
actual and personal correspondence.
Legal and commercial documents
must be sent under movable band
and made up so as to admit Of their
being easily examined.
Packets which do not fulfill the
condition above enumerated will be
treated as unpaid letters and charged
acco, dinghy.
ARTICLES EXCLUDED FROM TIE MAILS.
The treaty provides that there shall
not be admitted, for conveyance by
mail, any letter or other packet which
may contain either gold or silver
money, jewelry or precious articles or
any other article whatever liable to
custom duties.
Correspondence for all portions of
the General Postal Union will be
forwarded through the existing ex-
change offices.