RULES AND REGULATIONS: Officers 17 Post Office 17 Office Hours 18 Mails 18 Rates of Postage on Letters 19 Soldiers' and Seamen's Letters 20 Rates of Postage on Newspapers 21 Periodical Publications 24 Book Post 25 Printed Papers, Prices Current, Hand Bills, &c. 26 Printed Votes and Proceedings of the Imperial Parliament and Colonial Legislatures 27 Parcel Post 27 Franking and Free Letters 28 Abating and Refunding Postage 28 Undelivered and Dead Letters 29 Registration 30 Postage Stamps 30 Money Orders 31 General Regulations 33 Suggestions to the Public 34 Rates of Postage from Canada to British Colonies and Foreign Countries, by Canadian Ocean Steamers 36 Rates of Postage from Canada to British Colonies, &c., by Cunard Steamers 39 Do. do. do. by the United States 40 A FEW FACTS ABOUT THE POST OFFICE IN CANADA. COMPILED FROM AUTHENTIC SOURCES. The earliest records of the administration of the post office in Canada bear date 1750, at which period the celebrated Benjamin Franklin was Deputy Postmaster General of North America. At the time of his appointment the revenue of the department was insufficient to defray his salary of L300 per annum; but under his judicious management not only was the postal accommodation in the Provinces considerably extended, but the revenue so greatly increased, that ere long the profit for one year, which he remitted to the British treasury, amounted to L3000. In the evidence given by Franklin before the British House of Commons in the year 1766, in regard to the extent of the post office accommodation in North America, he made the following statement:--