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
6. Cause to be prepared and distributed Postage Stamps, necessary
for the prepayment of Postages under this Act, also stamped
envelopes for the like purpose;
7. [_Make arrangements concerning Posts and Postal business with
postal authorities outside of Canada._]
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11. Prescribe and enforce such Regulations as to letters directed to
be registered as to him may seem necessary, in respect to the
registration of letters and other matter passing by Mail, as well
between places in Canada, as between Canada and the United Kingdom,
any British Possession, the United States or any other Foreign
Country, and to the charge to be made for the same; and also in
respect to the registration by the officers of the Post Office of
letters unquestionably containing money or other valuable enclosure
when posted without registration by the senders of the same, and to
imposing a rate of two cents registration charge upon such letters;
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14. Establish and provide Street Letter Boxes or Pillar Boxes or
Boxes of any other description for the receipt of letters and such
other mailable matter as he may deem expedient, in the streets of
any City or Town in Canada, or at any Railway Station or other
public place where he may consider such Letter Boxes to be
necessary;
15. Grant licenses revocable at pleasure, to Agents other than
Postmasters, for the sale to the Public of Postage Stamps and
Stamped Envelopes, and allow to such Agents a commission of not
exceeding five per cent, on the amount of their sales.
RATES OF POSTAGE.
19. On all letters transmitted by Post for any distance within
Canada, except in cases herein otherwise specially provided for,
there shall be charged and paid one uniform rate of three cents per
half ounce in weight, any fraction of an ounce being chargeable as a
half ounce, provided that such three cents postage rate be prepaid
by postage stamps or in current coin at the time of posting such
letters; and when such letters are posted without prepayment being
made thereon, then and in such case it shall be lawful to charge
upon letters so posted unpaid a rate of five cents per half ounce.
20. On letters not transmitted through the mails, but posted and
delivered at the same Post Office, commonly known as local or drop
letters, the rate shall be one cent, to be in all cases prepaid by
postage stamp affixed to such letters.
21. [_Seamen and Soldiers, etc. in Her Majesty's service, entitled
to receive and send letters on payment of a certain special sum in
lieu of all British postage, shall be freed likewise from Canadian
postage._]
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