2()4 UKI'OKT OK OFFICK OK KXTKIilMKNT STATIONS. 



rciiucst tliat th»' iiustiiiastiT at tlic nflici' of dcliviTv will notify tin- inailiiitr station 

 ol tlu' i'lianj:r nt adilrcss of tlii' adilrcsst'c, or other rciiMon fir inability to (U'livcr the 

 same, and nj>on a hidk i>a(kam' a n*(jueHt to tlu; jKjHtinat^tcr to open and distribute 

 tlie " franked" matter therein in aeeordanee with the a<ldre.sH thereon. 



Bulletins jnihlisiied by the United States l)e]>artnieiit of Atrriculture and analof;ou8 

 to those of the station, and t'Mtitled to be mailed free under tiie iienalty envelope of 

 that Department, may also be adopted and mailed by th(> several stations, with their 

 own publications, under the same regulations, and any bulletins or reports mailable 

 free bv any ajrricultural experiment station under these re<rnlat ions may be so mailed 

 !)}• any otlu-r station bavins^ free-mailiiij^ authorit\'. 



If sueh station's annual reports be jirinted by .State authority, and eonsist in part 

 of matter relatinjj: to the lan<l-<rrant college to which such station is attached, then 

 sai<l report may be mailed free entire by the director of the station; ])rovi<led, in 

 his judgment, the whole consists of useful information of an agricultural character. 



(4) The bulletins may be mailed to the stations, newspapers, or persons to whom 

 they are by the foregoing act authorized to be sent, and the annual rei>orts to any 

 address within the United States, Canada, Mexico, or Hawaiian Kingdom (Sandwich 

 Islands), but not to other foreign countries, free of i)Ostage. 



An order of the Postmaster-General dated January 3, 1899, provides "That any 

 article entitled to transmission free of postage in the domestic mails of the United 

 States, either in a 'penalty' envelope or under a tluly authorized 'frank,' shall be 

 entitled likewise to transmission by mail free of j>ostag(( between places in Hawaii, 

 Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippine Islands; from the United States to those islands, 

 and from those islands to the United States." 



Among rulings on matters of detail the following are the most important: 



"In sending out bulletins from an agricultural experiment station it is permissible 

 to inclose postal cards to ena])le correspondents of the station to acknowledge the 

 receipt (jf its iiul)lications and to reijuest their continuous transmission. 



"Copies of the reports or IjuUetins of tlu' agricultural experiment stations, which 

 are purchased, paid, or sul)S(ribed for, or otherwise disposed of for gain, when sent in 

 the mails, are not entitli-d to free carriage under the 'frank' ni tlie director of the 

 station." 



Station bulletins and reports, consisting of typewritten niatter duplicated on a 

 mimeograj)!! or other dui)licating machine, "retain their character as free matter 

 when proi)erly franked by the director of the station." 



Cards ujion which are i)rinted ])ulletins issued by agricultural experiment stations 

 established under the i)rovisions of the act of March 2, 1887, may be sent openly in 

 the mails, free of postage, ])rovided the address side of such cards bears the indicia 

 prescribed in paragraph 8, section 517, Postal Laws and Regulations, for envehjpes 

 used by the experiment stations referred to in mailing copit's of their bulletins and 

 rei)orts. 



Reports of State boards of agriculture or other State boards, commissioners, or offi- 

 cers, even though they contain station bulletins and reports, can not be sent free 

 through the mails under the frank of the director of the station. 



The catalogue of the college of which the station is a <lepartment can not be sent 

 free through the mails under the frank of the director of the station, whether said 

 catalogue is pn1)lished separately or is bound together with a station pul)lication. 



RULINGS or THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT AFFECTING AGRI- 

 CULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



From copies of letters addressed to the Secretar}- of the Treasur}' 

 and others by the First Comptroller of the Treasury, relating- to the 

 construction of the act of Congress of March 2, 188T, and acts supple- 



