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
27. [_Foregoing rates subject to such conditions as may be agreed
upon between Canada and any other country._]
28. [_Postage on unpaid letters is due from addressee, or if refused
may be recovered with costs by civil action from sender._ (See
13^o--14^o Vict. Cap. 17, Sec. 12.)]
29. In all cases where letters and other mailable matter are posted
for places without the limits of Canada, on which stamps for
pre-payment are affixed of less value than the true rate of Postage
to which such letters are liable,--or when stamps for prepayment are
affixed to letters addressed to any place as aforesaid for which
prepayment cannot be taken in Canada,--the Postmaster General may
forward such letters, charged with postage, as if no stamp had been
affixed.
30. And for avoiding doubts, and preventing inconvenient delay in
the posting and delivery of letters,--no Postmaster shall be bound
to give change, but the exact amount of the postage on any letter or
other mailable matter shall be tendered or paid to him in current
coin as respects letters or other things delivered, and in current
coin or postage stamps as the case may require in respect to the
letters or other things posted.
31. [_The Postmaster General may make reasonable compensation to
Masters of vessels not Post Office Packets for conveyance of ship
letters from foreign ports to Canada._]
32. [_Postmaster General has exclusive privilege of collecting,
conveying and delivering letters, etc._; $20 _penalty for
infraction_. (See 13^o--14^o Vict. Cap. XVII. Sec. 9.)]
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35. [_The Postmaster General may employ Letter Carriers, and charge
two cents for delivery of a letter and one cent for a newspaper or
pamphlet._ (See 14^o--15^o Vict. Cap. LXXI. Sec. 15.)]
36. It shall be lawful for the Postmaster General, with the consent
of the Governor in Council, to establish in any city, when he shall
deem it expedient, a system of free delivery by Letter Carrier of
letters brought by mail and he may direct that from the time that
such system is established, no charge shall be made for the delivery
of such letters by Letter Carriers in such city, and further that on
drop or local letters when delivered by Letter Carrier in such city,
one cent only per half ounce shall be charged in addition to the
ordinary local or drop letter rate.
37. [_Postmaster General may establish a parcel post._ (See 22^o
Vict. Cap. XVII. Sec. 5.)]
38. [_Usual franking of official matter._ (See 18^o Vict. Cap.
LXXIX. Secs. 4, 5, 6, 7 and 24^o Vict. Cap. XXV. Sec. 6), _but
limited to transmission in Canada_.]
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