Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-03

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bined with other stops), or by marks of
parenthesis. Generally it may be said
that the insertion of parenthesis makes no
difference as to the use of the comma. If
it belongs in place by rule orgoodu usage: the
parenthesis, preceding it, does not affect
it, and the Insertion of the parenthesis is
before that comma A. No. s. Published
in Bombay. Price about five rupees per
year-about 81 so.
Our correspondent must understand that
the answers to l, 2, 3, 4 will not be ap-
proved in all respects by proof-readers OF
newspapers also, that the systems Of
punctuation in different newspapers
frequently differ, and also in different
publishing houses The authority on
which the answers are based is that, in
the main, accepted in Harvard Uni
versity and by leading American reheto-
ricians.
ROAD TAN A Reader" at Haze
creek, Shasta county, asks g Can Road
master collect a road tax from people liv-
ing on toll road p He will collect the
road tax in his district from all liable to
the tax in the district, and residence on a
toll road will Lot exempt the citizen from
the tax for improvement of roads In his
district. This is general. The road laws
in most counties differ, but no exemption
as indicated is known to us to exist in
any county, and to search all the road laws
through for certainty is task we cannot
enter upon.
THE AUTHOR. subscriber asks /:
Please inform me through your paper
ybo AL 90 ba nh
willing to sacrifice all my wife's relations
for my country" Artemus Ward was his
nom de plume.
STAMPED ENVELOPES. is there law
regulating the sale of stamped envelopes?
Are they not sold the same as stamps, at
three cents apiece 1 ask the above ques-
ton because here in the mountains we
get only twenty-six for ST. Please an
swer, and oblige A SUBSCRIBER.
Grizzly Flat, March II, 1880.
Ansoer. Postoffice Department reg
ulates the sale according to detailed
schedule. This table places the price
of three-cent stamped envelopes ac-
cording to size and quality. Thus,
No. l, note size, first quality, white, $3l 60
for 1000, SIS so for 500, 81 80 for $50,
So l6 for 100. 81 IS for 80, 70 cents for 25,
30 cents for 10 and l6 cents for 5. No. 2,
ordinary letter size, first quality, white or
amber, s32, SIG, IS, So 20, 81 60, so cents,
80 cents, l6 cents, and so ON through eight
sizes and three qualities. Twenty-Five
3cent envelopes are sold at rates varying
from 70 cents to 81 CENTS official size (35
by 81 inches). The ordinary Scent en-
velope should be sold First quality, so
cents; second quality, so cents; third
quality (blue), rs cents for % envelopes.
Postmasters are not required to lose the
fraction of cent, and if the Postmaster
cannot make change, the purchaser must
tender the exact amount for the number
required. He can always do this by order
ing loose stamps with his envelopes to ex-
actly equal the amount he tenders.
WESTON. Having discussion with an
other person about Weston, the walker,
please answer if you will l. Did Mrs.
Weston put up S., 900 to back her husband
in the walk with O'Leary? What nation
atty is Weston? R. G.
Live Oak, March 10, $780,
Ansper. The stakeholder so certi-
fed. 2. American.