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Woodland Statiod, see Newton
Wood's Hole, Falmouth Woodside, see Northboro Woodsville. see Shirley Woodville, Hopkinton
Woodville, see Wakefield
Woonsocket Junction, see Blackstone
WORCESTER 258
Worthington 211
see West Wrentham 212
Wyben, see Westfield
Wyoma Village, see Lynn
Wyoming, see Melrose
Yarmouth 212
Yarmouth Farmis, see Yar- mouth
Yarmouthport, Yarmouth Zoar, see Charlemont
Zylonite, see Adams
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.
Executive.
President, Theodore Roosevelt (B) of New York, salary $50,000. Term expires March 4, 1909 Vice-president, Charles W. Fairbanks (R) of In- diana, salary $8000
Cabinet.
Secretary of State, Elihu Root of New York $8000
Secretary of the Treasury, George B. Cortelyon of New York $8000
Secretary of War, William H. Taft of Ohio $8000 Secretary of the Navy, Victor H. Metcalf of California $8000
Secretary of the Interior, James R. Garfield of Ohio $8000
Postmaster General, George von L. Meyer of Mas- sachusetts $8000
Attorney General, Charles J. Bonaparte of Mary- land $8000
Secretary of Agriculture, James Wilson of Iowa $8000
Secretary of Commerce and Labor, Oscar S. Straus of New York $8000
Treasurer of the United States, Charles H. Treat $6000
Director of Census, S. N. D. North $6000 Commissioner of Education, Elmer E. Brown $3000 Commissioner of Pensions, Vespasian Warner $6000
Commissioner of Patents, Frederick I. Allen $5000
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Francis E. Leupp $4000
Government Printer, Charles A. Stillings $4500 Commissioner of Labor, Charles P. Neill $5000 Civil Service Commissioners, John C. Black pres. Henry F. Greene, John A. Mcllheny, Frank M. Kiggins, John T. Doyle $3500 each
Interstate Commerce Commissioners, Martin A. Knapp of New York ch. Judson C. Clements of Georgia, Edgar E. Clark of Iowa, Charles A. Prouty of Vermont, James S. Harlan of Illinois, Francis M. Cockrell, Franklin K. Lane, $7000 each; Edward A. Moseley sec.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, John W. Yerkes $6000
Librarian of Congress, Herbert Putnam of Massa- chusetts $5000
Senate.
The Senate is composed of two members from each State. They are chosen by the Legisla- tures of the several states for the term of six
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years, one-third being elected biennially. The Vice-president of the United States is Presi- dent of the Senate, in which body he has only a casting vote, which is given in case of an equal division of the votes of the Senators. In his absence, a president pro tempore is chosen from among the Senators by the Senate.
Sixtieth Congress begins March 4, 1907; ends March 4, 1909.
Salary of Senators and Representatives $5000, and twenty cents mileage.
Senators from Massachusetts.
Henry Cabot Lodge (R) Nahant, 1911. Winthrop Murray Crane (R) Dalton, 1913.
Representatives.
The House of Representatives is composed of members from the several States, elected by the people in separate districts composed of con- tiguous territory, for the term of two years. The Representatives are apportioned among the different States according to population.
Representatives from Massachusetts-60th Congress.
Dist.
1. George P. Lawrence (R) North Adams
2. Frederick H. Gillett (R) Springfield.
3. Charles G. Washburn (R) Worcester.
4. Charles Q. Tirrell (R) Natick.
5. Butler Ames (R) Lowell.
6. Augustus P. Gardner (R) Hamilton.
7. Ernest W. Roberts (R) Chelsea.
8. Samuel W. McCall (R) Winchester.
9. John A. Keliher (D) Boston.
10. Joseph F. O'Connell (D) Boston.
11. Andrew J. Peters (D) Boston.
12. John W. Weeks (R) Newton.
13. William S. Greene (R) Fall River.
14. William C. Lovering (R) Taunton.
U. S. Government Offices in Massachusetts.
U. S. Sub-treasury. 60-65 Post Office Building, Boston; hours 10 to 2.
Assistant Treasurer, Edwin U. Curtis. Chief Clerk, Edward L. Potter.
Treasury Department. Special Agents, Treas- ury Dept. (Division of Special Agents), 85 Post Office building, Boston, G. C. Channing, special agent in charge.
Special Employees, Charles B. Dowd, Carl H. Chandler
Special Inspector, Theophilus Grout. Inspectress, Annie J. Locke.
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.
U. S. Pension Agency. 87 Post Office building, Boston; hours 9 to 4. Pension Agent, A. J. Hoitt. Chief Clerk, George H. Chapin.
Special Examiners for Boston, Charles Fairbanks, Charles D. McSorley. Office 125 Post Office
. buiding; hours 9-4.
Examining Surgeons, First Board, Roscoe E. Brown pres. Edward M. Harding se0. John M. C. Murphey treas. Office 132 Post Office build- ing. Monday after 8.30 a.m.
Second Board, George B. Stevens pres. Everett M. Bowker sec. Daniel E. Millerick treas. Office 132 Post Office building; Saturday after 8.30 a. m.
U. S. Weather Burean, 149 Post Office building, Boston; hours 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Information by telephone until 4.30 p.m., also from 8 to 9.30 p.m.
District Forecaster and Section Director, John W. Smith
Board Examiners U. S. Civil Service District, 101 Post Office building, Boston. Edward E. Stebbins sec. Marion E. Hutchins, Daniel S. Knowlton, Jas. H. Larkin, Ernest L. Reynolds, Chester W. Pike, Luella Patch, Herbert F. French, Charles A. Richardson, Williston Lin- coln.
U. S. Steamboat Inspectors, office 137 Post Of- fice building, Boston. Local Inspectors, An- drew J. Savage, William A. Carleton; Asst. Inspectors, William M. Gilman, Henry L. Thompson, Newell A. Perry, Oscar G. Haines. U. S. Army Offices, 263 Summer St., Boston. Depot Quartermaster, Major Thomas Cruse; Constructing Quartermaster, Capt. Ira L. Fre- dendall; Paymaster, Lt. Col. George R. Smith, deputy paymaster general; Purchasing Com- missary, Capt. Jacob Bloom; Asst. to Depot Quartermaster, Lieut. J. D. Park, 4th Cav. Engineer 's Office, Barristers' Hall, Pemberton Square.
U. S. Chinese Inspectors, Long Wharf. Officer in charge, Geo. B. Billings; Chief Inspector, John A. McCabe; Inspector, Charles D. Mayer; Ste- nographer and Clerk, Walter M. Perry; Inter- preter, Moy Don Sing.
Navy Pay Office, Mason building, rooms 42 to 45. Pay Director, Charles W. Littlefield, U. S. N. U. S. Immigration Service, office foot Long Wharf. Commissioner, George B. Billings; Deputy Commissioner, Jeremiah J. Hurley; Medical Inspector in charge, M. Victor Saf. ford, M.D.
U. S. Navy Yard, entrance Wapping street, Charlestown.
Commandant, Rear Admiral William Swift.
Commanding Receiving Ship Wabash, Capt. A. P. Nazro.
Naval Constructor, Elliot Snow.
Captain of the Yard, Capt. Wm. A. Marshall. Ordnance Officer, Comr. J. H. Shipley.
Equipment Officer, Capt. W. G. Cutler.
Medical Officer of the Yard, Surgeon J. M. Edgar.
Head of Steam Engineering Dept., Comr. G. E. Burd.
Paymaster, C. S. Baker.
Pay Inspector, C. S. Williams.
General Storekeeper, E. B. Rogers. Cwil Engineer, Fred Thompson.
U. S. Internal Revenue. Office 67 Post Office Building, Boston. Hours 9 to 2.
THIRD COLLECTION DISTRICT-Includes entire State of Massachusetts.
Collector, James D. Gill, Springfield. Chief Deputy, O. M. Hamilton, Boston.
Deputy Collectors, George W, Barrett, George M. Scates, Lemuel W. Standish, James A. Cook, Charles A. Davis, Aaron S. Thompson, Arthur F. Moody, Albert L. Carpenter, An- drew W. Ekstrom, E. L. Kirtland, Frank B. Cook, George G. Russell, Augustus T. Sweat, Howard A. Newell.
Storekeepers, office 67 Post Office Building .- John B. Blake, William A. Waugh, James T. Foley, George W. Warren, Patrick F. Mahoney, John A. Nutter, John E. W. Doane, Ralph R. Robinson, William A. Wilder, Willard E. Jones, Edward J. McCauley, Frank J. Finn, Arthur H. Crabtree, Edward A. Holland, Daniel Mc- Craith.
Gaugers, office 73 Post Office Building .- Fred A. Marsh, Horace E. Munroe, Michael J. Hen- rity, E. B. Powers, Henry V. Slack, Philip C. Mason, Lorenzo T. Averill, Josiah F. Kimball, Albert J. Lynch, Samuel S. Whitney, Arthur E. Felch, Michael J. Tierney, Daniel Enright, John B. Lord, Charles A. Richardson, Walter M. Perry, Francis W. Bacon, Arthur W. Rigby, Harold D. Stebbins, Merrill J. Ober.
SPECIAL AGENTS. Office 74 Post Office Building, Boston.
Agent, F. D. Sewall. Special Agent, M. A. Haynes.
Special Gauger, John G. Meyer.
Deputy Collector, Willis L. Hidden. Special Employee, L. G. Dyer.
U. S. Life Saving Service.
The ocean and lake coasts of the United States are picketed with the stations of the Life Saving Service, attached to the United States Treasury Department. There is a corps of district superintendents, assistant inspectors, station-keepers, and crews extending over the entire coast line, together with a Board on Life Saving Appliances, composed of experts from the
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FOREIGN CONSULS IN MASSACHUSETTS.
Life Saving Service, army, revenue cutter ser- vice and civilians.
The General Superintendent of the service is Sumner I. Kimball, Washington, D. C.
SECOND DISTRICT. (Coast of Massachusetts.)
The officers of the service and the stations in Massachusetts are as follows:
Superintendent, George W. Bowley, Province- town, Mass.
Assistant Inspector, Lieut. F. J. Haake, U. S. Revenue Cutter Service, Post Office Building, Room 148, or Box 1908, Boston.
Name of stations, locations, keepers and their post office addresses are as follows:
SALISBURY BEACH, two-thirds of a mile south of State line; Willard A. Charles, Salisbury.
NEWBURYPORT, north end Plum Island, mouth Merrimac River; Thomas J. Maddock, Newbury- port.
PLUM ISLAND, 214 miles from south end; Frank E. Stevens, Newburyport.
STRAITSMOUTH, 12 mile west of Straitsmouth light; Charles A. Bearse, Rockport.
GLOUCESTER, Old House Cove, westerly side of harbor, 11% miles from city; Nelson F. King, Gloucester.
NAHANT, on the neck close to town; Nehemiah C. Hayman, Nahant Station, Lynn.
CITY POINT, floating station, in Dorchester Bay, Boston; Franklin E. Hamilton, South Boston.
POINT ALLERTON, 1 mile west of Point Aller- ton; William C. Sparrow, Hull.
NORTH SCITUATE, 215 miles south of Minot's Ledge light; Frederick C. Franzen, Minot.
FOURTH CLIFT, south end of Fourth Cliff, Scituate; Frederick Stanley, Seaview.
BRANT ROCK, on Green Harbor Point; Benja- min B. Manter, Brant Rock.
GURNET, 415 miles northeast of Plymouth; Au- gustus B. Rogers, Plymouth.
MANOMET POINT, 616 miles southeast of Plymouth; George W. Holmes, Manomet.
WOOD END, 1-8 mile east of light; George H. Bickers, Provincetown.
RACE POINT, 1 5-8 miles northeast of Race Point light; Samuel O. Fisher, Provincetown.
PEAKED HILL BARS, 212 miles northeast of Provincetown; William W. Cook, Provincetown. HIGH HEAD, 316 miles northwest of Cape Cod light; Charles P. Kelley, Provincetown.
HIGHLAND, 7-8 mile northwest of Cape Cod light; William P. Paine, North Truro.
PAMET RIVER, 516 miles south of Cape Cod light; Henry I. Collins, Truro.
CAHOON'S HOLLOW, 216 miles east of Well- fleet; Edward J. Tobin, Wellfleet.
NAUSET, 11/4 miles south of Nauset lighta; Abbott H. Walker, North Eastham.
ORLEANS, abreast of Ponchet Island; James H. Charles, East Orleans.
OLD HARBOR, Hezekiah F. Doane, North Chat- bam.
CHATHAM, 11/4 miles south southwest of Chat- ham lights; Herbert E. Eldridge, Chatham.
MONOMOY, 214 miles north of Monomoy light; Seth L. Ellis, Harwichport.
MONOMOY POINT, % mile south of Monomoy light; Joseph C. Kelley, Chatham.
COSKATA, 214 miles south of Nantucket (Great Point) light; Henry C. Cofin, Nantucket.
SURFSIDE, 215 miles south of the town of Nantucket; Eugene W. Clisby, Nantucket.
MADDEQUET, 6 miles west of Surfside; Edwin P. Tyler, Nantucket.
MUSKEGET, near west end of Muskeget Island; Albert Rohdin, Nantucket.
GAY HEAD, near light; Albertus S. Cahoon, Gay Head.
CUTTYHUNK, near east end of Cuttyhunk Island, Darius Weekes, Cuttyhunk.
U. S. Lighthouse Districts.
SECOND DISTRICT-Extends from Hampton Harbor, N. H., to (but does not include) Elisha ledge, off Warren Point, R. I .; covers the coast of Massachusetts except a small portion of Mount Hope Bay and Taunton River.
Inspector, C. J. Boush, U. S. N., 19 Congress St.
Engineer, Edward Burr, U. S. A., 25 Pemberton Sq.
FOREIGN CONSULS IN MASSACHUSETTS. Argentine Republic-Guillermo McKissock, Vice- consul, 92 State street, Boston.
Austria-Hungary-Arthur Donner, Consul, 70 State street, Boston.
Belgium-E. S. Mansfield, Consul, 42 Court street, Boston.
Brasil - Jayme M. d'Almeida, Vice-consul; Pedro M. d'Almeida, Com. Agent, 382 Han- over street, Boston.
Chile-Horacio N. Fisher, Consul, 60 Congress street, Boston.
China-Stephen W. Nickerson, Honorary Consul, 2 Kilby street, Boston.
Colombia - Jorge Vargas Heredia, Consul; Francis Russell Hart, Vice-consul, 809 Beacon street, Boston.
Costa Rica-Joseph J. Corbett, Consul, 68 Pem- berton square, Boston.
Cuba-Jose Monon
y Aguirre, Consul, 131
State street, Boston.
Denmark-Gustaf Lundberg, Consul, 131 State street, Boston.
Ecuador- Gustavo Preston, Consul, 37 Central street, Boston.
France-Joseph J. Flamand, Consular agent, 110 State street, Boston.
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CUSTOMS DISTRICTS OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Germany-Wilhelm Theodor Reincke, Consul, 70 State street, Boston.
Great Britain - William Wyndham, Consul; Lionel Edward Keyser, Vice-consul, 247 Atlantic avenue, Boston.
Greece - John Parmenidos, Acting Consul, 62 Long wharf, Boston; M. Iatrou, Vice-consul, Lowell.
Guatemala-B. Preston Clark, Honorary Con- sul, 55 Kilby street, Boston.
Hayti-Benjamin C. Clark, Consul, 55 Kilby street, Boston. ʻ Italy-Gustavo Tosti, Consul; Rocco Brindisi, Vice-consul, 153 Milk street, Boston.
Japan-Osborne Howes, Honorary Consul, 55 Kilby street, Boston.
Liberia-Charles Hall Adams, Consul General, 53 Tremont street, Boston.
Mexico-Arturo P. Cushing, Consul, 23 Court; Frederick O. Houghton, Vice-consul, 115 State street, Boston.
Netherlands-C. V. Dasey, Consul, 8 Broad street, Boston.
Nicaragua-Charles Hall Adams, Consul, 43 Tremont street, Boston. Panama-Jorge Manuel Canals, Consul, 53 State street, Boston.
Poru-Eugenio C. Andrea, Consul, 178 Devon- shire street, Boston.
Portugal-Viscount de Valle da Costa, Consul, 382 Hanover street, Boston; Jayme Mackay d'Almeida, Vice-consul, 382 Hanover street, Boston; Manoel Pedro Mackay d'Almeida, Vice- consul, Fall River; Joao Carlos da Silva Pitta, New Bedford.
Bussia- Charles F. Wyman, Vice-consul, 27 Kilby street, Boston.
Salvador-George Andrew Lewis, Honorary Consul, 60 Devonshire street, Boston. Spain-Pedro Mackay d'Almeida, Honorary Vice-consul, 382 Hanover street, Boston. Sweden- (vacancy), 161 Milk street, Boston. Turkey-Frank G. Macomber, Honorary Consul General, 147 Milk street, Boston.
Uruguay-Charles Hall Adams, Vice-consul, 43 Tremont street, Boston.
CUSTOMS DISTRICTS OF MASS. Boston and Charlestown District.
Custom House, corner of State and India Streets. Opens at 9 a.m. and closes 4.30 p.m .; Satur- days, closes 12 m .; Marine office 1 p.m. COLLECTOR'S OFFICE. Collector, George H. Lyman $8000 Special Deputy Collector, M. A. Munroe $5000 Secretary and Chief Clerk, Daniel S. Knowlton $2700 AUDITOR'S DIVISION.
Auditor, Stephen D. Salmon $3000 Clerk and Acting Auditor, William L. Coon $2000
CASHIER'S DIVISION.
Cashier, W. H. Locke $3000 Clerk and Assistant Cashier, Geo. W. Pettes $2200
INWARD FOREIGN DIVISION.
Deputy Collector, Eli Perry $3000
Clerk and Acting Deputy Collector, S. J. Devlin $2000
WAREHOUSE DIVISION.
Deputy Collector, William A. Snow $3000
Clerk and Acting Deputy Collector, Charles F. Gilman $2000
Clerk and Supt. of Warehouses, Augustine Sander- Bon $2000
MARINE DIVISION.
Deputy Collector, W. F. Jones $3000
Clerk and Acting Deputy Collector, John E. Hes- seltine $2000
DRAWBACK AND LIQUIDATING DIVISION.
Deputy Collector, R. G. Frye $3000 Clerk and Acting Deputy Collector, S. K. Gold- smith $2000
CUSTODIAN'S DIVISION.
Custodian, George H. Lyman Assistant Custodian, Joshua Atwood $1100
SURVEYOR'S OFFICE.
Surveyor, Jeremiah J. McCarthy $5000 Deputy Surveyors, Lawrence N. Duchesney $2500, J. Homer Edgerly $2500 Weigher, Andrew Hall $2000 Gauger, H. A. Wright $2000
APPRAISER'S OFFICE.
Appraiser, Winthrop T. Hodges $4000
Assistant Appraisers, Osgood C. Blaney $2500, Daniel F. Sprague $2500, R. A. Flanders $2500 Special Examiner of Drugs, etc. William H. Parker $2500
Clerk and Secretary, Mrs. A. F. Joyce $1600 NAVAL OFFICE.
Naval Officer, James O. Lyford $5000 Deputy Naval Officer, Edward L. Kimball $2500
STEAM REVENUE CUTTER "WINNISIMMET."
First Lieut. Commanding, George M. Daniels Pilot, E. N. Thacher
PORTS OF ENTRY, Boston and Charlestown
SUB PORT OF ENTRY, Worcester, Mass., Charles H. Pinkham, Deputy Collector
PORTS OF DELIVERY, Cambridge, Cohasset, Dor- chester, Hingham, Medford, Roxbury, Wey- mouth
Barnstable District.
Collector, Thacher T. Hallet, salary, fees
Special Deputy Collector, Weigher, Gauger, ota John J. Collins
Deputy Collectors and Inspectors, Erastus T. Bearse, Chatham; Benjamin D. Baxter, Hyan- nis; Myrick C. Atwood, Provincetown
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POSTAL INFORMATION.
PORT OF ENTRY, Barnstable PORTS OF DELIVERY, Chatham, Dennis, Hyannis, Provincetown, Bourne, Sandwich, Falmouth, Harwich, Wellfleet
Edgartown District.
Collector, Charles H. Marchant, salary $250, fees and commissions
Special Deputy Collector, John W. Pease $2.25 per day Deputy Collector at Vineyard Haven, Lorenzo F. Luce $2 per day
PORT OF ENTRY, Edgartown
Fall River District.
Collector, James Brady
Deputy Collectors, E. T. Marvell; Robert E. Granfield, Somerest, Dighton, Taunton
PORT OF ENTRY, Fall River
PORTS OF DELIVERY, Taunton, Dighton, Somerset, Swansea, Freetown
Gloucester District.
Collector, William H. Jordan $250 and fees Deputy Collector, Albert H. Mckenzie $1400 Clerk, Aaron Parsons $1400
Inspectors, Charles O'Brien, James L. Hodgdon, John J. Lowrie, Frank O. Griffin, Maurice F. Foley and William H. Cronin, Elmer P. Richardson, $3 per day each
PORT OF ENTRY, Gloucester
PORTS OF DELIVERY, Manchester and Rockport PORT OF IMMEDIATE TRANSPORTATION, Gloucester
Marblehead District.
Collector, Luke B. Colbert, salary, fees
Special Deputy Collector, Inspector, Weigher and Gauger, Joseph W. Coates $1000
Deputy Collector and Inspector, John L. Parker, Lynn, $2 per day PORT OF ENTRY, Marblehead PORT OF DELIVERY, Lynn
Nantucket District.
Collector, Obed G. Smith, salary $250 and fees PORT OF ENTRY, Nantucket
New Bedford District.
Collector, Rufus A. Soule, salary, fees not to exceed $3000
Special Deputy Collector, Edward P. Haskell, salary $1800
Deputy Collectors and Inspectors, John F. Gog- gin, Arthur E. Duffy, $3 per day
Inspectors, George L. Anthony, Joshua G. Lap- ham, $3 per day PORT OF ENTRY, New Bedford
Newburyport District.
Collector (vacancy), fees Deputy Collector, Arthur L. Huse $600 PORT OF ENTRY, Newburyport
- District includes the cities and towns on Mer- rimac River to the New Hampshire line, the
port of Ipswich and other towns in south- eastern and northeastern Massachusetts.
Plymouth District. Collector, Herbert Morissey, salary $150 and fees Deputy Collector, C. R. Wood $1000 PORT OF ENTRY, Plymouth
Salem District.
Collector, David M. Little, fees Deputy Collector, A. Frank Hitchinga, $4 per day Inspectors, Charles P. Luscomb, William L. Sul- livan, Daniel F. Connolly, $3 per day each Boatman, Charles B. Taggard $480 PORT OF ENTRY, Salem
PORTS OF DELIVERY, Beverly and Danversport
POSTAL INFORMATION.
General Directions.
Direct your mail matter to a post office, and if to a city, add the street and number of post office box of the person addressed. If you are not certain that the place to which you wish to send is a post office, inquire of the post- master. Matter not addressed to a post office can not be forwarded. To insure certainty in dispatch of mail, give the county in which the post office is situated, and spell the name of the state in full. Write or print your name and address, and the contents if a package, upon the upper left-hand corner of all mail matter. This will insure its immediate return to you for correction, if improperly addressed, or insuffi- ciently paid, and if it is not called for at its destination, it can be returned to you without going to the Dead Letter Office. If a letter it will be returned free. Register all valuable let- ters and packages. Registry fee, eight cents, which, with the postage, must be fully prepaid. The name and address of sender must be given on the outside of the wrapper or envelope of all registered matter.
Classes of Domestic Matter and Rates.
Domestic mail is divided into four classes, as follows:
FIRST CLASS .- Written matter, namely, let- ters, postal cards, post cards (private mailing cards) and all matter wholly or partly in writ- ing, whether sealed or unsealed (except manu- script copy accompanying proof-sheets or cor- rected proof-sheets of the same), and all mat- ter sealed or otherwise closed against inspec- tion; typewriting (with carbon or letter-press copies thereof) is held to be an equivalent of handwriting and is classed as such in all cases. Rates of postage-two cents per ounce or frac- tion thereof.
Postal cards, one cent each.
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POSTAL INFORMATION.
Private mailing cards (post cards), with writ- ten messages, conforming to the regulations pre- scribed by the Postmaster-general, one cent each.
On "drop" letters, two cents per ounce or fraction thereof, when mailed at letter-carriers' office, or where rural delivery service has been established; and one cent per ounce, or frac- tion thereof, when mailed at other offices.
SECOND CLASS .- Newspapers and publications issued at stated intervals as often as four times a year, bearing a date of issue and numbered consecutively, issued from a known office of publication, and formed of printed sheets, without board, cloth, leather or other substantial binding. Such publications must be originated and published for the dissemination of informa- tion of a public character, or devoted to litera- ture, the sciences, art, or some special industry. They must have a legitimate list of subscribers, and must not be designed primarily for adver- tising purposes, or for circulation free, or at nominal rates. Rate of postage-for publishers and news agents, one cent a pound or fraction thereof. For others than publishers and news agents, one cent for each four ounces or frac- tion thereof.
THIRD CLASS .- Books, periodicals and matter wholly in print (not included in second class), proof-sheets, corrected proof-sheets and manu- script copy accompanying the same. Rate of postage-one cent for each two ounces or frac- tion thereof. ·
FOURTH CLASS .- Merchandise - namely, all matter not embraced in the other three classes, and which is not in its form or nature liable to destroy, deface or otherwise damage the con- tents of the mail bag, or harm the person of any one engaged in the postal service, and not above the weight provided by law. Rate of postage one cent per ounce or fraction there- of; but on seeds, cuttings, roots, scions and plants, one cent for each two ounces or frac- tion thereof.
Limit of Weight.
A package must not exceed four pounds in weight, unless it be a single book. Second- class matter is not subject to the four-pound limitation.
Registry System.
All mailable matter, including drop letters, may be registered; but not matter addressed to fictitious names, initials or box numbers, or bearing vague and indefinite addresses. In- demnity will be paid for the value of lost do- mestic registered first-class mail matter, not to exceed $25 in any one case.
The registry fee is eight cents in addition to postage. It must be prepaid by stamps af- fixed.
Special Delivery.
By the affixing of a special delivery stamp of ten cents, in addition to the regular postage, any mail matter whatsoever will be delivered immediately after arrival to any point within the carrier limits of any free delivery office between the hours of 7 a.m. and 11 p.m., and within one mile of all other post offices between the hours of 7 a.m. and 9 p.m.
Rates of Postage to Canada, Mexico, Hawaii, Porto Rico, Island Possessions, Panama Canal Zone, Cuba, and Shanghai, China.
(The Dominion of Canada embraces all the British North American Provinces except New- foundland.)
LETTERS AND POSTAL CARDS .- Same rates and conditions of prepayment of postage as for United States letters and postal cards.
OTHER MATTER .- Same rates and conditions of transmission as for matter for delivery within the United States, except that all sealed pack- ages which evidently are not letters are ex- cluded. Other matter must be so wrapped or enclosed as to permit their contents to be easily examined by postmasters or customs officials.
MEXICO .- All articles of every kind or nature which are admitted to the domestic mails of the United States are admitted under the same conditions and at the same rates to the maila of Mexico; except that articles of miscellaneous merchandise (fourth class matter) not sent as bona fide trade samples are required to be sent by "parcels post" at the rate of twelve cents per pound or fraction thereof, with a "customs declaration," properly filled out, attached to it.
Postage to Foreign Countries.
Letters, five cents per half ounce or fraction thereof (fifteen grammes being the postal equiv- alent of half an ounce).
Postal cards, two cents each.
Reply postal cards, four cents each.
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