The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-23
SECOND CLASS MAIL.
Important Changes in ReSula-
tons Governing the Same.


The Official Postal Guide for Au-
gust, 1901, contains number OF I'M
portant rulings governing. the entry OF
second class matter into the mails.
Hereafter all publications having the
characteristic of books will be denied
entrance as second class matter but
must be sent as third class. This will
exclude a lot of the cheaper books
which have been burdening the mails.
The following rules will govern
news agents:
''When a person, firm or corporation
desires to mail second class matter at
the pound rate, as news agent, for
NAL application for the privilege must
be made on blank form No. 35O1-c,
which will be furnished by the post
master at the proposed office OF mail
ing, who will transmit the same to
the third assistant postmaster general.
If the application is approved, GER
tificate will be issued allowing the ap-
pllcant to exercise said privilege SO
long as he conforms to the regulations
OF the department.
"The news agent must furnish the
postmaster satisfactory evidence that
the publications offered are entitled
to the pound rate, and have been duly
entered at the Office of publication,
and are being sent to actual sub
scrl bers or to other news agents for the
purpose of sale.
Satisfactory evidence must also be
furnished that the persons to whom
bulk packages are sent from a news
agency are also news agents, and the
addresses upon bulk packages sent to
or from news agent should show that
the addresses are news agents.
News agents are not entitled to re-
turn unsold second class publications
at the pound rate of postage to either
publishers or other news agents; but
when such matter is mailed for said
purpose, postage at the rate of one cent
for each four ounces or fraction there
OF, must be paid by stamps affixed.
when news agents desire to retu IN
to publishers merely the heads of
copies, such portions are not entitled
to pass at the pound rate, or four ounce
rate, but must be rated as third class
matter -
The following extracts from letter of
the assistant attorney general, will ex-
plain themselves:
81 have the honor to acknowledge
receipt of your communication, re-
questing my opinion as to the meaning
of the terms "a regularly incorporated
institution of learning as contained
in the act Of July Is, 1894. relating to
the admission to the mails as second
class matter of publications issued by
institutions of learning, etc.
'sThe case you present is that of the
GAINESVILLE Business College Co., which
makes application for the admission
to the second class rates, of a periodi-
Cal publication issued by said COM
pany.
"You state that there are two classes
of institutions applying for the privi-
leges Of this act; first, those of a pub
lie character Incorporated under the
name of the institution itself and sec
ond, those of a private character, in
corporated by stock company for
purpose of gain.
SIN my judgment the aim of the act
of July 16, 1894, is to promote the in
terests of institutions of learning, or
ganized for the benefit of the public
and not for any company or person
maintaining and conducting a school,
college or place of instr action for the
personal benefit of the owner.
"The Gainesville Business College
company is incorporated for'the pur-
pose of giving instruction, and such
business is conducted for the benefit of
the company. This company is not,
in my judgment, regularly incor-
porated institution of learning and
therefore a publication issued by it is
not admissible to the mails as second
class. -
The following question was asked of
the assistant attorney general: ''The
right of publisher, under the 'educa-
tional' act, to insert any advertising
not pertaining strictly and immedi-
ately to the propagation of learning in
it's technical sense, as intoxicating a
knowledge of those branches of educa-
ton which cultivate and enlarge the
mind, as distinct from the sale of
school furniture or any other article. -
His answer follows: "Under this
law, to entitle paper to be sent
through the mails at second rates,
among other things, the matter con-
tanned therein shall be originated and
published to further the objects of
such institution of learning In re-
ply, therefore, to your inquiry, I have
to state that in my opinion a paper
containing advertisements in the in
terest of other persons or concerns
than the institution of learning which
such paper represents, is not entitled
to the privileges OF the law quoted. -