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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

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cardboard, by means of printing, engraving, lithography, autography, or any other mechanical process easy to recognise except the copying press and the typewriter.

37.--Reproductions of a manuscript or typewritten original obtained by a mechanical process of polygraphy (Chromography, etc.) are allowed to pass as printed papers provided they are handed in at the Post Office counter and number at least twenty copies, precisely identical.

38.-Printed papers which bear any marks whatever capable of constituting a conventional language, or the text of which has been modified after printing, save in the manner explicitly authorised by the exceptions below, cannot be sent at the rate for printed papers. It is permissible :--

(a) To indicate on the outside of the article the name, commercial style, the

profession, and the address of the sender.

(b) To add in manuscript on printed visiting cards and also on Christmas cards and New Yards the address of the sender, his title, as well as good wishes, congratulations, thanks, condolences, or other formulas of courtesy, expressed in five words at most or by means of conventional initials (P.P.C., etc).

(c) To indicate or to alter in a printed paper, in manuscript or by a mechanical process, the date of dispatch, the signature, or the commercial style, and the profession, as well as the address of the sender and of the addressee. (d) To enclose the "copy" with corrected proofs, and to make in those proofs alterations and additions which relate to accuracy, form and printing. In case of want of space these additions may be made on separate sheets. (e) To correct also errors in printing in printed documents other than proofs. (f) To erase certain parts of a printed text.

(9) To make prominent by means of marks and to underline words or passages

of the text to which it is desired to draw attention.

(h) To insert or correct in manuscript or by a mechanical process figures in

prices current, tenders for advertisements, stock and share lists, trade circulars and prospectuses, as well as the traveller's name and the date and place of his intended visit in travellers' announcements.

(i) To indicate in manuscript, in advices of the departures and arrivals, the dates of such arrivals and departures as well as the names of the ships. (j) To indicate in manuscript, in advices of the dispatch of goods, the date of

those dispatches.

(k) To indicate in cards of invitation and notices of meetings the name of the

person invited, the date, the object, and the place of the gathering. (1) To add a dedication on books, sheets of music, newspapers, photographs,

and engravings, as well as to enclose the relative invoice.

(m) In forms of order or subscription for library works, books, newspapers, engravings, pieces of music, to indicate in manuscript the works required or offered. and to erase or underline the whole or part of the written communications.

(n) To paint fashion plates, maps, etc.

(0) To add, in manuscript or by a mechanical process, to cuttings from news- papers and periodical publications the title, date, number, and address of the publication from which the article is extracted.

39.-Printed papers must be either placed in wrappers, upon rollers, between boards, in cases open at both sides or at both ends, or in unclosed envelopes, or be simply folded in such a manner as not to conceal the nature of the packet, or, lastly, tied with a string easy to unfasten.

40.-Address cards and all printed matter of the form and substance of an unfolded card may be forwarded without wrapper, envelope, fastening, or fold.

41. The undermentioned articles are excluded from transmission at the rate applicable to printed papers :—

Postage stamps, whether obliterated or not, and in general all printed articles constituting the sign of a monetary value, Bank paper, note paper or envelopes (with or without printed address) and all other articles of stationery pure and simple.