2nd. Samples of Seeds, Drugs, and similar articles intended for delivery within the United Kingdom, are now allowed to be sent in bags entirely closed, provided such bags be transparent, so that the Officers of the Post Office may be able to satisfy themselves of the contents. 3rd. The rule which prohibited the transmission through the Post, as Patterns, of articles of cutlery, &c., has been rescinded; and scissors, knives, razors, forks, steel pens, nails, keys, watch machinery, metal tubing, pieces of metal or ore and such like articles, are now allowed to be forwarded by the Post as Samples, provided they be packed and guarded in so secure a manner as to afford complete protection to the contents of the Mail Bags, and to the persons of the Officers of the Post Office. Such articles, however, must be so packed that they may be easily examined; and it is made a rule that any packet containing such articles which may be found to be insufficiently guarded, shall not be forwarded through the Post. 4th. No packet of Patterns or Samples must exceed 24 oz. in weight. COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PATTERN AND SAMPLE POST. A Packet of Patterns or Samples sent to France, must not exceed 18 inches in length, width or depth; a packet to any other place abroad must not exceed 24 inches in length or 12 inches in breadth or depth. A Packet of Patterns or Samples sent to Germany or Belgium must not exceed 8 ounces in weight. None of the articles named in Rule 3, may be sent as Patterns or Samples to any place abroad, except Germany, Belgium, and the British Colonies, and not to those places when addressed “_viâ_ France.” Bags entirely closed even though they may be transparent, must not be used for the transmission of seeds to foreign parts. W. P. HOWLAND, _Postmaster General_. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, _Ottawa, February, 1866_. Transcriber’s Note: The following appeared on an errata slip pasted into the volume. The errata have been corrected. ERRATA.--PAGE 11. For * _Brantford_, Co. Simcoe, Read * _Bradford_, do, For * _Bradford_, Co. Brant, Read * _Brantford_, do. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of List of Post Offices in Canada 1866, by Postmaster General of Canada