El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-28
RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE.


Order From Office OF Superln-
tendent Eleventh Division.
Comprising Texas And Other
States.
SEC. 1. RATES OF POSTAGE FOR
CUBA, GUAM, HAWAII, PORTO
Rico AND THE PHILIPPINE
ISLANDS.
Office of Postmaster General,
Washington, D. c., Nov. %, 1899.
Order No. 729.
It is herebv ordered:
l. That oil mail matter passing be.
tween the United States and Porto
Rico, Guam aud the Philippine
Archipelago, or between these
island possessions of the United States,
shall be subject to the United States
domestic classification, conditions and
rates of postage.
2. That all mail matter, except as
provided in the next section, passing
between the United States and Cuba
or Hawaii; or between Cuba and
and Porto Rico, Guam or the Philip
pine Archipelago, shall be subject to
the Postal Union classified ton, con-
ditions and rates of postage, provided
that the regulations for ''Parcels-POst"
exchanges between the United
States and Hawaii shall continue here
tofore.
8. That the United States domestic
classification, conditions and rates OF
postage shall apply to all mail matter
sent by or addressed to persons in the
United States service military, naval
or civiD in Cuba or Hawaii; provided.
q. That such mail matter sent by
persons in the United States service in
Cuba or Hawaii, to be entitled to said
rates of postage. must be endorsed SO
as to show the branch of service to
which the sender belongs-as ''sol-
der s letter Tor mail), - sailors letter
Tor maiD," etc., and when cent by
civil employe, postal service letter
Tor msil), ''customs service letter Tor
maiD," etc.
b. That such mi all matter addressed
to persons in the United States service
in Cuba or Hawaii, to be entitled to
said rates of postage, must bear, in adj
diticn to the name of the addressee, the
ton, company and regiment, vessel or
other branch of the service to which
addressed, at the place of address, be-
longs, and the postage thereon must be
fully prepaid;
its class. addressed to persons in the
United States service. serving in the
United States or in Porto Rico Cuba,
Hawaii, Guam or the Philippine Ar
chipelago, or en- route to or from any
of those islands, whose change of ad-
dress ia caused by official orders, shall
be transmitted as rapidly as possible
until it reaches the addressee: that the
actual location of the addressee, for the
time being, shall be considered as the
original destination of the piece of
mall matter; that such transmission
ing'' in the sense in which that word is
used in the postal service, and that no
additional postage will be required
therefor.
5. That letters from soldiers, sailors
and marines in the United States
service In Porto Rico, Cuba, Hawaii,
Guam and the Philippine Islands, ad-
dressed to places within the United
States, when endorsed "Soldier's let
letter." may be dispatched to destina-
ton without prepayment of postage,
and only the single rate of postage
shall be collected on delivery.
6. That letters emsnating from the
American National.Red Cross Society,
addressed to persons connected with
the hospital service of that society in
Cuba, when bearing on the face of the
envelopes the printed words Red
Cross Hospital Service" mot excluding
other printing which the society may
desire to have appear, shall be tran
smitted in the mails at the United
States domestic rate of postage: and
that letters from the Red Cross Hos
pi,al service in Cuba, bearing the
words above indicated, and addressed
to the Red Cross society in the United
States or to the officers thereof, shall
be entitled to transmission in the mails
at the United States domestic rate of
postage.
7. That any article entitled to trans
mission free of postage in the COM
estic mails of the United States, either
in "penalty" envelope or under q
duly authorized "frank, "shall be enti-
tied likewise to transmission in the
mails, free of postage, between places
in Porto Rico. Cuba, Hawaii, Guam
and the philippine Islands; from the
from those Islands to the United States.
s. That the registration fee shall be
eight cents, in all cases, in addition to
the lawful postage, domestic or Postal
Union rates.
9. All previous orders on this sub
ject, except Order No. 71S, of Novem-
Der 10. 1889. are revoked, and all exist
ing schedules conflicting herewith shall
be modified accordingly.
Gu. EMORY SMITH,
Postmaster General.
g. PRIVATE MAILING CARDS.
OFFICE OF POSTMASTER GENERAL,
WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. Is, 1899.
Order No. 1872.
The attention of pOstmasters and the
public is called to the following ACT of
Congress, approved May 10, 1898, and