The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-05

The following are the rates of postage on d.
nestle Mail Matter Of the different classes:
|. Note-An domestic mail matter Except news
} papers, magazines and periodicals sent to aotus
I subscribers from known Office Of publication
must be prepaid by postage stamps.
a letter on which one full rate of postage
prepaid, but on which further postage is charge
able, will be forwarded, when deposited in
post-office, charged with the unpaid postage Il
be collected on delivery. If the postage ia lei
wholly unpaid, or is prepaid less than one ful
rate, it will be held for postage and sent to tn
Dead Letter Office Should it reach it's destinx
ton by insdvertence, however, it will be charged
with double postage on delivery. "One full
rate" means, in the case of mail letters or othe'
arst class matter, three cents.
In large cities and adjacent districts Of large
population, having two or more post-ofices with.
in distance of three miles of each other, any let
| ter posted at one ofsuch Offices and addressed A
3 locality within the delivery of another of suci
Offices, which shall have been inadvertently pre-
paid at the "drop" or local letter rate of postage
only, may be forwarded to its destination throupI
the proper Office charged with the amount Of thu
deficient postage, to be collected on delivery.
If articles chargeable with different rates O
postage are sent together in one package, the
higher rate must be paid on the entire package
but two or more different articles, both charge,
able with the same rate Of postage, may be sent
in one package on payment Of that rate on thu
whole package.
The following articles are excluded from the
mails Liquids, Poisons, Glass, Explosive Ma
terri ats c%r
publications of an obscene or indecent character
all letters upon the envelopes of which, and pos
tai cards upon which, scurrilous epithets are
written or printed or engraved, or disloyal de-
vices printed or engraved and all articles which
from their form or nature are liable to destroy
deface or iniure the contents of mail bags or the
person Of any one engaged in the postal service
Postmasters are not allowed to give credit 10,
postage, nor to deliver, any mail matter until al
postage due thereon has been paid.
First Class.
On letters, sealed packages, mail matter who'll,
or partly in writing Except book manuscripts
and corrected prosf-sheets passing between au
lhors and publishers. and except local or "drop'
lstters> on all printed matter so marked as k
convey any other or further information than II
conveyed by the original print Except the cor
rection Of typographical errors) on all matter
not otherwise chargesble with letter postage bui
which is so wrapped or secured that it cannot bt
conveniently examined by postmasters, without
the wrapper or envelope on all news. |
papers, magazines and periodicals sent from pub |
fishers to subscribers and inclosing any article |
whatever, except bona fide supplements or billi |
and receipts for subscriptions; and on all pack |
ages or matter not in itself chargeable with letter
postage, but in which is inclosed or concealed |
my letter or other thing chargeable with lette,
cents for each half ounce or fraction /
Of packages limited to fou
pounds.
On local or drop" letters, at Offices where
rec delivery by carriers is established-2 cents
or each half ounce or fraction thereof-weight
4 packages limited to four pounds.
On local or "drop" letters, at Offices where
rec delivery by carriers is not established-I |
ent per half ounce or fraction thereof-weiRhi
packages limited to four pounds.
Second Glass.
NoTE.-Msilable matter Of this class embraces
II newspapers, magazines and periodicals ex.
usively in print and regularly issued at stated
eriods from known Office of publication, ant
1dressed to regular subscribers.
PREPAYMENT.
Sec. 5. That on and after the LIST day of Janu
y, 1875, on all newspapers and periodical pub
cations mailed from known Office OF publica
on or news agency, and addressed to regular
disorders or news-agents, postage shall bt
larged at the following rates: On newspaper
i'd periodical publications, issued weekly ant
tener, two cents pound and fraction thereof
IS frequently three cents pound and fraction
ereof: Provided, That nothing in this act shall !
held to change or amend section SO Of the ac
TITLED, San act to revise, consolidate, ane
mend the statutes relating to the Post ONO.
apartment" approved June 9Th, 1872.
Sec. 6. That on and after the LIST day Of Janu.
y, 1875 upon the receipt Of such newspapers
ID periodical publications at the Office Of mail
g, they shall be weighed in bulk, and postage
i'd thereon by special adhesive stamp, to be
vised and fun nished by the Postmaster Gen,
al, which shall be affixed to such matter, or to
Q sack containing the same, or upon a memo.
ndHm Of such mailing, or otherwise, as the
stmaster General may, from time to time,
ovide by regulation.
Sec. 7. That newspapers, one copy to each
tual subscriber residing within the count,
ere the same are printed, in whole or in part
published, shall go free through the mails
the same shall not be delivered at letter
.rier offices or distributed by carriers unless
stage is paid thereon as by law provided.
Third Glass.
III matter of the third class must be fully pre-
d.
loTE.-Packages Of mailable matter Of thu
So must be prepaid by stamps, and must moi
iced the weight prescribed by law (which Is
r pounds). Packages exceeding the pre-
ihed weight are unavailable.
IN pamphlets, occasional publications, tran
ut newspapers, magazines and periodicals
ldbills, posters, sheet music, unsealed circu.
8, prospectuses, book manuscripts and proof
ets, printed cards, maps, Autographs, prints,
- l.