CO129-133 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [10-12] — Page 334

thereto.

6.

Corry such packet must be either without a cover, or in a cover open at the ends or sides.

7. It must not contain any letter, open or sealed, nor any sealed en

whatever.

ealed enclosure

? No packet must exceed two feet in -length, breadth, or depth, exceeding these dimensions not to be forwarded.

The Rate of postageschich I proposa

should be levied on the Book Packets and Pamphlets in question is the

.

sameas

that chargeable on such packets when vent by the British Mail Packets to the Perts in China, and India.

The rates to which such packets are liable when fonsarded through the United Kingdom

are 12 cents foreach

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Southampton, and

via

four 16 cents for each four Marseilles, I may however mention that but few books, are sent by either of those routes, and that I do not -anticipate that any large number will be sent in the mails from this Office to Tokohama, San Francisco, or the United States generally by the Pacific Mail Steamers.

The rate chargeable by the American Post Office on Book Packets will of course be fixed at Washington and the postage collected there will be retained by the United States Post Office, and, in like. postage collected on this wide will belong to the Colonial Government in the same way as the postage.

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