Spain, French mail.

South American States, Pacific coast. Peru..
Ecaudor, Bolivia and Chili..

Bremen or Hamburg mail..
British mail, American packet..
British packet..

Sweden, Prussian closed mail..

prepaid..

prepaid.

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French mail.

The standard single-rate weight is 1/2 oz. avoirdupois.
Single-rate letter, throughout the United States...
For each additional 1⁄2 oz. or fraction
Drop-letters, for local delivery, single rate..

where there is no local delivery, single rate.. Advertised letters are charged extra,..

These postages must be prepaid by stamps. When letters are insufficiently stamped, the balance will be collected on delivery. Letters are to be forwarded without additional charge, if the person to whom they are addressed has changed his residence, and has left proper directions to such effect. Letters uncalled for will be returned to the sender, if a request to that effect be written upon the envelope. Properly certified letters of soldiers and sailors will be forwarded without prepayment. No extra charge is made for the service of carriers taking letters to or from post-offices.

These rates are to be paid quarterly or yearly. Publishers of newspapers and periodicals which do not exceed 16 oz. in weight may exchange, free of postage, one copy of each publication. Bills and receipts for remittances may be enclosed to actual subscribers, and the date when a subscription expires may also be recorded on the subscribers' copies. News-dealers may receive their packages of periodicals and newspapers at the same rates as subscribers.

TRANSIENT PRINTED MATTER.

.4 cents..

Books, for each single rate of 4 oz. avoirdupois..
Circulars not exceeding 3 in one envelope constituting a single rate..2
Miscellaneous mailable matter (embracing all pamphlets, occasional
publications, transient newspapers, book manuscripts and proof-
sheets, whether corrected or not, maps, prints, engravings, sheet
music, blanks, flexible patterns, samples and sample cards, photo-
graphic paper, letter envelopes, postal envelopes or wrappers, cards,
paper, plain or ornamental, photographic representations of differ-
ent types, seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots, and scions), on one package
to one address, for each single rate of 4 oz. avoirdupois..

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.2 cents.

[By a decision of the post-office department, manuscripts and proofs passing between authors and editors of magazines and newspapers are not regarded as passing "between authors and publishers," and must pay letter postage.]

Prepayment by stamps is required for all postage on transient printed

matter.

If letters or other mail matter that should be prepaid happen to reach the office of delivery unpaid, double rates must be charged.

The maximum weight of any package of printed or miscellaneous matter is 4 lbs. avoirdupois.

Franking. This privilege is restricted to the president (by himself or his private secretary); the vice-president; the chiefs of the several executive departments; such heads of bureaus or chief clerks as the postmaster-general shall prescribe, for official communications only; members of congress, the secretary of the senate, and the clerk of congress-from the beginning of their term of office to the first Monday of the December following the end of such term, and covering only correspondence to and from them, printed matter issued by authority of congress, and printed matter sent to them. Postmasters may write to each other on post-office business under frank. Petitions to congress go free. No package, except of congressional publications, is to weigh more than 4 oz. avoirdupois.

Registration.-Letters may be registered on payment of a fee of twenty cents, but the government takes no responsibility for safe carriage or compensation in case of loss.

Money orders. All principal post-offices now receive small sums of money and issue drafts for the same upon other post-offices, subject to the following charges and regulations:

On orders not exceeding $20..
Over $20 and not exceeding $50...

.10 cents. 66 .25

No fractions of cents to be introduced in an order. United States treasury notes or national bank notes only received or paid.

The order is only payable at the office upon which it is drawn. The order should be collected within one year from its date. After once paying an order, by whomsoever presented, the department will be liable to no further claim'

RATES OF POSTAGE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE BRITISH NORTH AMERICAN PROVINCES.

LETTERS.

The standard single rate is 1⁄2 oz. ovoirdupois.

To or from Canada and New Brunswick, irrespective of distance....10 cents. To and from other British North American Provinces, for a distance not over 3,000 miles..

For any distance over 3,000 miles..

10 66 .15

Prepayment is optional except to Newfoundland, to which prepayment is compulsory.

PRINTED MATTER.

The regular United States rates must be prepaid, but these only pay for transportation to the boundary line; a second fee is charged on delivery by the provincial post-office.

POST OFFICES IN WISCONSIN.

BLACK RIVER FALLS.. Jackson.