Opinion ID: 97920
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Heading: applications for entry of publications as second class matter.

Text: SEC. 438. When a publication, not included in sections 429 and 430 (see secs. 427 and 428), is offered for mailing for the first time at the second-class rates of postage the postmaster shall require the proprietor or his duly authorized representative to make and present to him, with two copies of the publication, sworn answers in writing (on Form 3501) to the following interrogatories: (1) How often is the publication issued? (2) Where is the known office of publication? (If in a city give street and number.) (3) Where is it printed? (4) Who are the proprietors? (5) Are they in any way interested pecuniarily in any business or trade represented by the publication, either in the reading matter or in the advertisements? If so, what is the interest? (6) Who are the editors of the publication, and how is their compensation determined? (7) Have the editors any pecuniary interest in any business or trade represented by the publication, either in the reading matter or in the advertisements? If so, what is the interest? (8) Can any house in good standing advertise in your publication at the regular published rates? (9) Are advertisements of competitors accepted at the usual rates? (10) Have any of the business houses which advertise in your publication Page 307 any interest (either by past connection or special contract) therein respecting advertisements or subscriptions? If so, what is the interest? (11) What is the greatest number of copies furnished to any person or firm advertising in your publication? (12) On what terms are these papers furnished? (13) What number of copies do you print of each issue? (14) What number of bona fide subscribers have you for the next issue of your paper, made up as follows: a. Direct individual subscriptions to publisher without premium? b. Direct individual subscriptions to publisher with premium? c. Direct individual subscriptions in clubs or through clubbing arrangements? d. Copies regularly sold over publishers' counter to purchasers of individual copies? e. Copies regularly sold by newsboys? f. Regular sales of consecutive issues by news agencies? g. Bulk purchases of consecutive issues by news agencies for sale without the return privilege? h. Copies to advertisers, one to each to prove advertisement? i. Bona fide exchanges, one copy for another, with existing second-class publications? (15) What is the subscription price of your publication per annum? (16) How many pounds weight will cover the papers furnished to regular subscribers? (17) What average number of specimen copies with each issue do you desire to send through the mails at the pound rate? (18) How are the names of the persons to whom sample copies are to be sent obtained? (19) What disposition is made of the excess, if any, of copies printed over those furnished to subscribers, news agents, including newsboys, and as sample copies.