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
29. Petitions and Addresses to either of the Provincial Legislatures
of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, or to any branch
thereof; and votes, proceedings and other papers, printed by order
of any such Legislature, or any branch thereof, during any Session
thereof,--provided such petitions and addresses, votes, proceedings
and other papers, are sent without covers, or in covers open at the
ends or sides, and contain no Letter or written communication to
serve the purpose of a Letter.
30. Letters and other mailable matter (except that provided for as
above) addressed to or sent by the Provincial Governments or
Legislatures of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, will
be liable to the ordinary rates of Postage.
31. Public documents and printed papers sent under the foregoing
clauses should bear, as part of the address, the bona fide
superscription of the Speaker, Chief Clerk, or Officer specially
deputed for this purpose to act for those functionaries, or of the
Member sending the same.
32. The privilege of free transmission, as above described, has
effect only as respects Canada Postage rates.
33. All letters and other mailable matter to and from the Postmaster
General and the Deputy Postmaster General, and all Official
communications to and from the Post Office Department, and to and
from the Post Office Inspectors, are to pass free of Canadian
Postage.
34. All letters and communications on the business of the Post
Office Department, intended for the Post Office Department at
Ottawa, should be invariably addressed to "The Postmaster General."
The branch of the Department for which the letter or communication
is intended should be written on the left hand upper corner of the
letter, thus:--
"For Accountant"
"For Secretary"
[etc.]
as the case may be, but the main direction must be to the Postmaster
General, or Deputy Postmaster General.
35. All letters containing a remittance on account of the Public
Revenue sent by any Postmaster in Canada to a Bank or Bank Agency;
and all remittances or acknowledgements sent by a Bank or Bank
agency, on account of Public Revenue, to any Postmaster in Canada,
are to pass free through the Post, as respects both postage and
registration charge.
36. No change is made in the Way or Sub-Office system of Nova Scotia
and New Brunswick, Quebec or Ontario.
37. No change is made in the Money Order System.
38. A system of Post Office Savings Banks will be instituted on the
1st. April, and will be extended as quickly as practicable to all
the principal cities, towns and places throughout the Dominion.
A. CAMPBELL, _Postmaster General_.
CHAPTER VIII
THE ISSUE OF 1868
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