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

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



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 duly authorized 'frank,' shall be 

 entitled likewise to transmission by mail free of postage 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 enable correspondents of the station to acknowledge the 

 receipt of its publications and to request their continuous transmission. 



"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 the 

 station. ' ' 



Station bulletins and reports, consisting 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." 



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 department can not be sent 

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

 catalogue is published separately or is bound together with a station publication. 



RULINGS OF THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT AFFECTING AGRI- 

 CULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



From copies of letters addressed to the Secretary of the Treasury and others by the 

 First Comptroller of the Treasury, relating to the construction of the act of Congress 

 of March 2, 1887, and acts supplementary thereto, the following digest has been pre- 

 pared for the use of the stations. The sections are those of the act, the dates those of 

 the decisions by the Comptroller: 



SECTION 3 — JANUARY 30, 1888. 



That the annual financial statement of the stations, with vouchers, should not be 

 sent to the Treasury Department, but that a copy simply of the report that is made 

 to the governor is to be sent to the Secretary of the Treasury. 



SECTION 3 — JANUARY 31, 1888. 



First. That the Treasury Department will not require officers of experiment sta- 

 tions to do or perform anything not specifically required by said bill. 



Second. That the Secretary of the Treasury is not required to take a bond of the 

 officers of said stations for the money paid over under the provisions of said act. 



Third. That no reports will be required from the stations directly to the Secretary 

 of the Treasury; but the governor of the State must send to the Secretary of the 

 Treasury a copy of the report made to him by the colleges or stations. 



SECTION 4 — DECEMBER 16, 1895. 



The Solicitor of the Treasury writes: "I am of the opinion that there is no author" 

 ity for an agricultural experiment station to sell its bulletins outside of the State or 

 Territory. Congress appropriates for the publication and free distribution of the 

 bulletins, and neither expressly nor by necessary implication authorizes their sale." 



