DOMESTIC POSTAGES.

Letters.

Postage on letters passing from one post-office to another, is, for each half ounce or fraction thereof, three cents.

Drop Letters.

Postage on drop or local letters, at post-office where lettercarriers are employed, for each half ounce or fraction thereof, two cents; at other than letter-carrier offices, one cent for each half ounce or fraction thereof.

Postal Cards.

With postage stamp impressed upon them, one cent. (To be furnished only by the United States Post-office Department.)

Newspapers, Circulars, &c.

By act of July 12, 1876, pamphlets, occasional publications, transient newspapers, magazines, books, periodicals, handbills, posters, sheet-music, (printed) prospectus, maps, proofsheets, corrected proof-sheets, and regular publications, designed principally for advertising purposes or for circulation at nominal rates, are subject to postage at the rate of one cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof; and printed cards and blanks, lithographs, prints, chromo-lithographs, engravings, photographs and stereoscopic views, book manuscript, unsealed circulars, seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots and scions, flexible patterns, samples of ore, metals, minerals, and merchandise, sample cards, photographic paper, letter envelopes, postal envelopes and wrappings, unprinted cards, plain and ornamental paper, card board, and other flexible material, and all other mailable matter of the third class, not herein enumerated, is subject to postage at the rate of one cent for each ounce or fraction thereof.

The above articles must be prepaid in full at mailing office, by stamps attached thereto, or the same cannot be forwarded in the mails. Weight of packages limited to four pounds, and be so wrapped that they can be readily examined by postmast

ers.

The sender of any articles of the above enumerated matter may write his or her name or address thereon, or on the outside thereof, with the word "from" above or preceding the same, or may write briefly or print on any package the number and names of the articles enclosed.

The postage on all regular newspapers and periodicals must be prepaid at the offices where mailed, at the following rates: Newspapers and periodicals, published once a week or oftener, two cents for each pound or fraction thereof. Published less frequenty, three cents a pound or fraction thereof.

County Papers.

Newspapers, (without regard to frequency of issue,) one copy to each subscriber actually, for the time being, residing in the county where the same are printed, in whole or in part, and published, are entitled to pass free of postage through the mails; but, the rate of postage on the same, (excepting week lies,) when deposited in a letter-carrier office for delivery by the office or its carriers, shall be uniform, at one cent each. Weeklies, and papers issued more frequently, when sent through the mails to a letter-carrier office, in the county where the same are printed, in whole or in part, and published, to be delivered through the box or general delivery, or by carriers, shall be weighed in bulk and be subject to a postage of two cents per pound, and papers issued less frequently three cents per pound, to be prepaid at the mailing office by special adhesive stamps.

Postage in Letter-Carrier Offices.

The postage on newspapers, (exceptiug weeklies,) period icals, and circulars, deposited in a letter-carrier office for delivery by the office (through the box or general delivery) or by its carriers, is as follows:

1. On newspapers, (excepting weeklies,) whether regular or transient, and without regard to weight or frequency of issue, one cent each.

2. On periodicals, (other than newspapers,) whether regular or transient, not exceeding two ounces in weight, one cent each.

3. On periodicals, (other than newspapers,) whether regular or transient, exceeding two ounces in weight, two cents each. 4. Circulars, unsealed, one cent each. These rates to be prepaid by postage stamps affixed.

5. Weekly newspapers, (excepted above,) to regular subscribers, two cents per pound, to be weighed in bulk and prepaid at the office of mailing.

6. Weekly newspapers to transient parties, one cent for each ounce or fraction thereof, to be prepaid by postage stamps affixed.

MONEY ORDER POST OFFICES IN PENNSYLVANIA.

[Corrected to November

Rates of Charges.

On orders not exceeding $15.

On orders over $15 and not exceeding $30
On orders over $30 and not exceeding $40
On orders over $40 and not exceeding $50