CHAPTER II. 



POSTAL, INTERNAL REVENUE, AND NATURALIZATION LAWS. 



UNITED STATES POSTAL REGULATIONS. 

 As Revised under Act of March 3, 1885. 



First Class Mail Matter. LETTERS. This class includes letters, postal 

 cards, and anything sealed or otherwise closed against inspection, or anything 

 containing writing not allowed as an accompaniment to printed matter, under 

 class three. 



POSTAGE. 2 cents each ounce, or additional fraction of an ounce, to all 

 parts of the United States. On local or drop-letters, at free-delivery offices, 

 2 cents. At offices where there is no delivery by carrier, i cent. 



Prepayment by stamps invariably required. . Postal cards, I cent. 



Registered letters, 10 cents in addition to the proper postage. The Post- 

 Office Department, or its revenue, is not by law liable for the loss of registered 

 mail matter. 



For immediate delivery, 10 cents additional postage, prepaid by special 

 stamp, only at offices designated by the Post-Office Department. 



Second Class. REGULAR PUBLICATIONS. This class includes all news- 

 papers, periodicals, or matter exclusively in print, and regularly issued at 

 stated intervals, as frequently as four times a year, from a known office of 

 publication or news agency. Postage, i cent a pound or fraction thereof, pre- 

 paid by special stamps. Publications designed primarily for advertising or 

 free circulation, or not having a legitimate list of subscribers, are excluded 

 from the pound rate, and pay third class rates. On newspapers and periodicals, 

 mailed by other than publishers or news agents, i cent for each 4 ounces or 

 fractional part thereof. 



Third Class. Mail matter of the third class includes books, circulars, 

 unsealed publications for advertising purposes, and other matter wholly in 

 print, legal and commercial papers filled out in writing, photographs, proof- 

 sheets, corrected proof-sheets, and manuscript copy accompanying the same. 



MS., accompanied by proof-sheets, letter rates. 



Limit of weight, 4 pounds each package, except single books weight not 

 limited. 



Postage, i cent for each 2 ounces or fractional part thereof, invariably pre- 

 pai4 by stamps. 



Fourth Class. Embraces merchandise, and all matter not included in the 

 first, second, or third class, which is not liable to injure the mail matter. Limit 

 of weight, 4 pounds. 



Postage, i cent each ounce or fraction thereof, prepaid. 



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