Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1878 — Regulations for the Registration of Third-Class Mail Matter. [ARTICLE]

Regulations for the Registration of Third-Class Mail Matter.

Postmaster Palmer, of Chicago, has recently issued a circular giving information of general interest regarding the postage and registration of thirdclass mail matter. The regulations are as follows: No package Of such matter can be received until a proper examination can show it to be entitled to tiausmission as such matter. Great care must be exercised to prevent the .registration: 'find admission into the mails of matter that is uumallable. and also to prevent the admission at third-class rates of matter upon which | ostage is properly chargeable at first-class rates under existing laws and regulations. Postmasters should require packages to be put up securely, so as to safely bear transportation, but not In such a manner as to prevent an examination of their contents, either at the mailing office or at the office of delivery. Matter offered for registration in violation of these requirements "ill be treated as now provided by law and the postal regulations. Both postage' and registry fee must be fully,prepaid, with postage stamps affixed to the packages. Registered packages of third-class matter will, as far as practicable, be treated in the mails the same as registered letters. The name and address of the sender must bs indorsed, either in writing or In print, upon each package of third-class matter offered for regist ration; and there may be added to this a brief description, in wrltingbrin print, of the number and names of the articles Inclosed. No additional written matter, except the address, is permitted by law. A request to return may also be printed, but to write such request would, by law, subject the package to I ostage at first-class (letter) rates. Unclaimed registered packages of third class matter will be treated the same as unclaimed registered letters. Third-class matter is divided into two divisions. as follows: The firstdivlsion includes pamphlets, occasional publications, transient newspapers, magazines, books, periodicals, handbills, posters, sheet music (printed), prospectuses, maps, proof-sheets. corrected proof-sheets and regular publications designed primarily for advertising purposes or for free circulation at nominal rates. The second dirisioH ineludes printed cards and blanks, lithographs, prints, chromo-litbo-grapbs, engravings, photographs, and “stereoscopte views, book manuscripts, unsealed circulars, seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots and ’ scions, flexible patterns, samples of ores, rpetals, minerals and merchandise. Sample cards, photographic paper, letter-envelopes, postal envelopes and wrappers, unprinted cards, plain and trnamental paper, cardboard, or other flexible material, and all other mailable matter of the tdrd-tiMS, not herein enumerated. The rate of postage fax artietae sfl IhKfltalt Uvision, is one cent for every two ounces, or fractional part thereof. The rate Of postage for articles in the Second division is one cent for each ounce, or fractional part thereof. The fee for registration is ten cents for each package; the weight of each package not to i-xcred four pousdte .......... In Ireland this year there were 5.203.705 acres cultivated, a decrease of 62,196 acres asoom pared with 1&77. The chief decrease Was in oats, potatoes and