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registry fee on his private letter, packet, package, or other matter in 

 the mail, shall be fined not more than three hundred dollars. 



Act March 4. 1009. c. 321. s. 227, 35 Stat. 1134. 



This is a section of "An act to codify, revise, .nul anuMid Die \)enal 

 laws of the United States." cited above, incorporating therein i)rovisions 

 of act March 3. 1S77, c. 103, s. 5. which provisions are expressly repealed 

 by section 341 of this act. 



ACT JULY 5, 1884, c. 234. (23 Stat. 156.) 



Letters, packages, etc.. transmitted free; endorsements on official envelopes, 

 enclosure of penalty envelopes, with return address; official mail matter 

 registered free. 



Sec. 3. That section twenty-nine of the act of March third, eighteen 

 hiuidred and .seventy-nine (United States Statutes at Large, page 

 three hundred and sixty-two) . be, and it is hereby, amended so as to 

 read as follows : 



'' The provisions of the fifth and sixth section of the act entitled 

 'An act establishing po?t-rout6s, and for other purposes ' approved 

 March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, for the transmis- 

 sion of official mail-matter, be, and they are hereby, extended to all 

 officers of the United States Governmentj not including members of 

 Congress, the envelopes of such matter in all cases to bear appro- 

 priate indorsements containing the proper designation of the office 

 from which or officer from whom the same is transmitted, with a 

 statement of the penalty for their misuse. * * * Provided, That 

 any Department or officer authorized to use the penalty envelopes 

 may inclose them with return address to an}'' person or persons from 

 or through whom official information is desired, the same to be used 

 only to cover such official information, and indorsements relating 

 thereto : Provided further, That any letter or packet to be registered 

 by either of the Executive Departments, or Bureaus thereof, or by the 

 Agricultural Department, * * * may be registered without the 

 payment of any registry fee; and any part-paid letter or packet 

 addressed to either of said Departments or Bureaus may be delivered 

 free; but where there is good reason to believe the omission to prepay 

 the full postage thereon was intentional, such letter or package shall 

 be returned to the sender: Provided further, That this act shall not 

 extend or apply to * * * officers who receive a fixed allowance 

 as compensation for their services, including expenses of postages. 

 And section thirty-nine hundred and fifteen of the Revised Statutes 

 of the United States, so far as the same relates to stamps and stamped 

 envelopes for official purposes, is hereby repealed." 



Act July 5. 1SS4. o. 2.34, s. 3, 23 Stat. 158. 



Act March 3, 1877, c. 103, ss. 5, 6, mentioned lu this section, are set 

 forth above. 



ACT JANUARY 12, 1895, c. 23. (28 Stat. 601.) 



Contract for official envelopes for departments, by Postmaster General; business 

 address, etc., thereon forbidden. 



Sec. 96. The Postmaster-General shall contract for all envelopes, 

 stamped or otherwise, designed for sale to the public, or for use by his 

 own or other Departments, and may contract for them to be plam or 

 with such printed matter as may be prescribed by the Department 

 making requisition therefor: Provided, That no envelope furnished 



