Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-03-20

manner the mails shall be conveyed.
7 Sec. 4. That all cars or parts of cars used
for the railway mail service shall be of such
| style, length and character, and furnished in
| such manner Us shall be required by the post
master general, and ehall be constructed, fitted
up, maintained, heated, and lighted by and at
the expense of the railroad companies.
Sep. 5. That the postmaster general shall
| for every failure to deliver mail within its
| schedule time, not less than one.half of the
price of the trip and where the trip is not
| performed, lot less than the price of one trip,
| and not exceeding, in either case, the price of
three trips. Provided, however, That if the
failure il caused by connecting road, then
only the connecting road shall be fined. And
casualty the postmaster general, in his discre-
| ton, may remit the fine. And he may make
deductions and impose fines for other delin-
quencies.
| Sec. 6. That the postmaster general shall re-
| guest all railroad companies transporting the
| mails to furnish, under seal, such data relating
| to the operating, receipts and expenditures of
suchsroads as may, in his judgment, be deemed
necessary to enable him to ascertain the cost of
mail transportation and the proper compensa-
ton to be paid for the same; and he shall, in
his usual report to Congress- make such recon-.
mendations, founded on the information OBJ
tanned under this section as shall, in his opin-
ion, be just and equitable.
Sec. z. That mailable matter shall be divided
into four classes:
First-Written matter.
Second-Periodical publications.
Third-Miscellaneous printed matter.
FOurth-Merchandise.
l Sec. 8. Mailable matter of the first class
shall embrace letters, postal cards and all mat
tiers wholly or partly in writing, except as here
matter provided.
Sec. .. That on mailable matter of the first
class, except postal cards and drop letters. post
age shall be paid at the rate of three cents for
each half ounce or fraction thereof; postal
! cards shall be transmitted through the mails at
postage charge of one cent each, including
the cost of manufacture; and drop letters shall
be mailed at the rate of two cents per half
ounce or fraction thereof, including delivery at
letter Offices, and one cent for each half
ounce or fraction thereof where free delivery
by carrier is not established. The postmaster
general may, however, provide by regulation
for transmitting unpaid and duly certified let
tiers of soldiers sailors and marines in the ser
vice of the United States to their destination,
to be paid on.deliyery. :
Sec. 10. That mailable matter of the second
class shall embrace all newspapers and other
periodical publications which are issued at
stated intervals, and as frequently as four
times year, and are within the conditions
named in sections IL and IA.
Sec. IL. Publications of the second class,
except as provided in section Is, when sent by
the publisher thereof, AID from the office of
publication, including sample copies, or when
sent from news-agency to actual subscribers
thereto, or to other news-agents, shall be en-
titled to transmission through the mails at q
cents pound or fraction thereof. such postage
to he prepaid, as now provided by law.
Sec. IL. That matter of the second class
may be examined at the Office of mailing, and
if found to contain matter which is subject to
IN hIeyho ratio aE <tora hall 1,o
charged with postage at the rate to which the
inclosed matter is subject: Provided, that
nothing herein contained shall be so construed
as to prohibit the insertion in periodicals of
advertisements attached permanently to the
same.
or cause to be submitted, for transportation in
the .nlails; any false evidence to the postmaster
relative to the character Of his publication,
shall be deemed guilty of misdeme amor, and,
upon conviction thereof in any COURT of compe-
tent jurisdiction, shall for every such offense
be punished by a fine of not less than 300 nor
more than $500.
, Sec. IA. That the conditions upon which q
publication shall be admitted to the second
class are as follows:
First-It must regularly be issued at stated
intervals, as frequently as four times q year,
and bear q date of issue, and be numbered con-
secutively.
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fee Of publication.
: : Third-It must be formed of printed paper
sheets, without board, cloth, leather, or other
substantial binding, such as distinguish printed
books! for preservation from periodical publica-
tions.
Fourth-It must be originated and published
for the dissemination of information of pub
lie character, or devoted to literature, the sci
ences, arts, or some special industry, and hav-
ing legitimate list of subscribers: Provided
however, that nothing herein contained shall be
so construed as to admit to the second-class
rate regular publications designed principally
for advertising purposes, or for free circulation
or for circulation at nominal rates.
Sec. Is. That foreign newspapers and other
periodicals of tho same general character a.
those admitted to the second class in the United
States may, under the direction of the postmas-
tef-general, on application of the publishers
thereof or their agents, be transmitted through
the mails at the same rates as if published in
the United States. Nothing in this act shall be
through the mails of any publication which
violates any copyright granted by the United
States.
Sec. 16. That publishers of matter of the
second class may, without subjecting it to ex.
tra postage fold within their regular issues =
supplement-; but ii al cases the added matter
must be germane to the publication which it
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complete that to whichtit is sdded or: supple
mented, but omitted from the regular issue
for want of space, time, or greater convenience,
which supplement must in every case be issued
with the publication.
| Sec. II. That mail matter of the third class
shall embrace books, transient newspapers and
periodicals, circulars, and other matter
wholly in print (not included in section 12),
tproof- sheets, corrected proof-sheets, and mau-
uscEpt copy accompanying the same, and post
age shall be paid at the rate of one cent for
each two ounces or fractional part thereof, and
shallfully be prepaid by postage stamps affixed
to said matter. Printed matter other than
books received in the mails from foreign coun-
conventions shall be frse Of custom duty, and
books which are admitted to the international
mails exchanged under the provisions of the
universal postal union convention may, when
subject to custom duty, be delivered 70 tads
dresses in the United States under such regu-
1ations for the coliection Of duGess ~ ~msy.be
agreed upon BY tie secretary of the treasury
! and thu postmaster general.
| NJ 8ec. Is. That the term CIRCULAR il defined
to be 8 printed letter which, according toin-
ternl evidencdris being sent In identical terms
to several pepB0ns. "A arcnlar shall not lose its
character % such when the date and the name
EoE The sddressed and Of the sender shall be
therein written, nor by the correction OF mere
Typographical errors in writing.
|, Sec. rs. That ''printed matte" within the
int ndment Of this act, il sdshnql bf1haIe-
frcodAction upon paper, by any process except
that of handwriting, Of @gny word, iett11;
chasacters; figures, oE inaake.s prot my epmbi-
natien; thereof, not having the character of an
tsttua aud personal correspondence.
Sec. 20. That mailable matter Of the fourth