440 LOCAL

distance not exceeding 3,000 miles, if pre-paid,
3 cents; unpaid, 5 cents; over 3,000 miles 6
cents if pre-paid; 10 cents unpaid. Double
rate if exceeding half an ounce, treble if ex-
ceeding an ounce, and so on, charging an addi-
tional rate for every additional half ounce or
fraction of half an ounce.
Letters dropped inthe post office, for delivery
in the same place, 1 cent each.
Letters advertised are charged 1 cent each
besides regular postage. Drop letters are not
advertised.
Circulars, 1 cent for 3 oz. or less to any part
of the United States
Daily newspapers weighing three ounces or
less 45½ cents per quarter, when sent from the
office of publication to actual and bona fide
subscribers any where in the United States.
Transient newspapers sent any where within
the United States, 1 cent for three ounces or

less

For postage on other printed matter, see table
of rates.
When the article to be mailed is a circular
pamphlet, or newspaper, it should be so envel-
oped as to be open at one end— otherwise it will
be charged as a letter.
OCEAN STEAM NAVIGATION.—The
following rates of postage on letters have been
agreed upon between this government and the
German States, Prussia, &c.
Bremen, 10 cents; Oldenburg, 13; Altona,
Austrian Empire, (including Hungary, Galicia,
Lombardy and Venice,) Bavaria, Brunswick,
Hamburg, Hanover, Mecklenburg Schwerine
and Straelitz, Kingdom of Prussia, Kingdom
of Saxony, and Saxe Altenbnrg, 15; all other
German states, cities and towns, 22 cents; Swit-
zerland and the Netherlands, 25 cents; Den-
mark and Scleswig, 27; Poland and Russia .,29;
Constantinople, Greece and Sweden, 33; Nor-
way, 37— pre-payment optional.
Alexandria, Corfu, Island of Malta, Walla-
chia, 30 cents; Italy, (except upper part,) 33 ;
pre-payment required.
Newspapers and circulars, 2 cents each, to

All mailable matter addressed to England,
Ireland or Scotland, will be left at the British
post office in Cowes or Southampton; and all
for France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy,
Spain, and Portugal, and Africa, will be sent
to Havre, in France, and aseparate bag will be
made for Hamburg, and delivered at Bremen

MAILS TO THE PACIFIC.—For a single
letter, not exceeding half an ounce in weight,

REGESTER.

from New York to Chagres, 20 cents; to Pa-
nama, 20 cents— postage to be pre-paid. Post-
age to California and Oregon (they being U. S.
possessions) need not be pre-paid.

HAVANA MAILS.— A line is established
between Charleston and Havana, the steamers
touching at Savannah and Key West, the post-
age of which is from the port of departure to
Havana 10 cents on a single letter not exceed-
ing half an ounce in weight, with an additional
10 cents for each additional half ounce, or frac-
tional excess of half an ounce, to be pre-paid.
Postage on each newspaper to Havana 2 cents,
also to be pre-paid, as on letters.
On letters to British North America, 10 cts.,
if not over 3,000 miles; if over that distance 15
cents a single rate, pre-paid or not at the option
of the sender.

BRITISH POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS.

Letters posted or charged in the United States
will be rated at a half ounce to the single let-
ter, over a half and not exceeding an ounce as
a double letter, over an ounce and not exceed-
ing an ounce and a half as a trebla letter, and
so on, each half ounce or fractional excess con-
stituting a rate.
The single rates to be charged on each letter
posted in the United States addressed to any
place in Great Britain or Ireland is 24 cents,
the double rate 48 cents, and so on.
Said postage on letters going to any place in
Great Britain or Ireland may be pre-paid, if
the whole amount is tendered at the office in
the United States, where mailed, at the option
of the sender.
Newspapers may be mailed at any office in
the United States to any place in the United
Kingdom on the pre-payment of 2 cents, and
may , on recetpt from any place in Great Britain
or Ireland, be delivered at any office in the
United States on payment of 2 cents. Note.—
Each Government is to charge 2 cents on each
newspaper. These are to be sent in bands or
covers, open at the sides or ends, and to contain
no manuscript whatever.
On letters to be sent to any foreign country
or British possessions, and mailed for that pur-
pose to any post office in the Island of Great
Britain, they must be pre-paid, if sent by a
British packet, 5 cents the single rate, and if

by an American packet, 21 cents, to be doubled,
tripled, &c., according to weight.

Persons mailing letters to foreign countries
are reminded that it is necessary for them to
pre-pay the proper postage, or the letters can-
not be forwarded.