Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal StationeryHowes, Clifton A. (Clifton Armstrong)
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Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery
Howes, Clifton A. (Clifton Armstrong)
Postage stamps -- Canada; Postal stationery -- Canada
70. Mails are made up at Montreal every fortnight for Halifax, Nova
Scotia, and despatched for conveyance to Halifax with the Mails by
the Royal Mail Steamers from Boston to Halifax and Liverpool by
which Letters may be sent to the following places at the rates
mentioned:
Letters to Halifax and Nova Scotia 7-1/2d. currency.
Letters to Newfoundland 1s. currency.
Letters to Bermuda and British West Indies 1s. currency.
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74--75--76. [_Almost identical with first three paragraphs of_
Department Order No. 4. _describing and prescribing use of postage
stamps_. Vide supra.]
77. If the Stamps affixed to a Letter addressed to any place in
British North America or to the United Kingdom be not adequate to
the proper Postage, the Post Master receiving the Letter for
transmission will rate it with the amount deficient in addition.
78. On Letters for the United States when Stamps are affixed
representing less than the amount of Postage to which the Letters
are liable, the Stamps are to be cancelled and the Letters rated
with the full rate as Unpaid.
79--80--81. [_Identical with last two paragraphs of_ Department
Order No. 4. _concerning cancelling, omission of same, and accounts
of stamped letters_.]
82. Stamps affixed to Letters coming from either of the British
North American Provinces, the United Kingdom or the United States,
and recognized as equivalent to pre-payment at the Office where the
Letter has been posted--are to be allowed in Canada as evidence of
pre-payment accordingly, on the Letters to which they have been
affixed.
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84. [_Postage Stamps must be taken when offered in payment of
postage on delivery of Unpaid Letters._]
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88. [_Non-Commissioned Officers, Embodied Pensioners, Seamen and
Soldiers, while employed in Her Majesty's Service, can send and
receive letters at a rate of 1d. each, which must be paid at time of
posting, and letter must not exceed 1/2 oz. in weight._]
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95. [_Rate on circulars, price currents, hand bills, etc., 1d. per
ounce or fraction._]
96. [_Rate on pamphlets, periodicals, magazines and books, 1/2d. per
ounce._]
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100. [_Limit of weight for periodicals, etc., (§96) is 48 oz._]
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103. [_Book post to England is 6d. sterling (7-1/2d. currency) for
1/2lb., 1s. sterling (1s. 3d. currency) for 1 lb., and at 1s. per
lb., rate thereafter._]
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112. [_Postage on newspapers in Canada is 1/2d. except on exchange
copies, which are free._]
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