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FREE TRANSMISSION TO UNITED STATES POSSESSIONS. 



An order of the Postmaster General provides — 



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

 United States, either in a "penalty" envelope or under a duly authorized "frank," 

 shall be entitled likewise to transmission in the mails free of postage between ])Iace8 

 in any possession of the United States from one to another of such possessions, from 

 the United States to such possession, and from such possession to the United States. 



POSTAL CARDS MAY BE SENT FREE WITH BULLETINS. 



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 enable correspondents of the station to acknowledge the 

 receipt of its publications and to request their continuous transmission. 



PAID-FOR PUBLICATIONS MAY NOT BE FRANKED. " 



Copies of the reports or bulletins of the agricultural experiment stations, which 

 are purchased, paid, or subscribed for, or otherwise disposed of for gain, when sent 

 in the mails, are not entitled to free carriage under the "frank" of the director of 

 station. 



TYPEWRITTEN OR MECHANICALLY DUPLICATED BULLETINS OR REPORTS MAY BE FRANKED. 



Station bulletins and reports. con.<nsting of typewritten matter duplicated on a 

 mimeograph or other duplicating machine, "retain their character as free matter 

 when properly franked by the director of the station." 



HOW CARD BULLETINS MAY BE FRANKED. 



Cards upon which are printed bulletins issued by agricultural experiment stations 

 established under the provisions of the art of March 2, 1887, may be sent openly in 

 the mails, free of postage, provided the address side of such cards bears the indicia 

 prescribed in paragraph 3, section 517, Postal Ijaws and Ilegulations. for envelopes 

 ased by the experiment stations referred to in mailing copies of their bulletins and 

 reports. 



REPORTS OF STATE BOARD.S AND DEPARTMENTS OP AGRICULTURE A.VD COLLEGE CATA- 

 LOGUES MAY NOT BE SENT UNDER .STATION FRANK. 



Reports of the State boards of agriculture or other State* br)ards, commissioners, or 

 officers, even thougl) they contain station bulletins and reports, can not bo sent free 

 through tlie mails under th" frank of tlie director of the st;xtion. The catalogue of the 

 college of which the; station is a dep.irtment can not l)e sent free tluough the mails 

 under the frank of the director of the station, whether said catalogue is published 

 separately or is bound together with a sUition publication. 



RULINGS OF THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT AFFECTING AGRICULTURAL 

 EXPERIMENT ST.'VTIONS. 



From copies of Ictiors addressed to the Secretary of the Treasury 

 and others by the First CoinptroUcr of the Treasury, relating to tlie 

 construction of the acts of Congress of March 2, 1SS7 (Hatch Act), 



