Buffalo City Directory

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Courier Company of Buffalo, 1851
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Seite 53 - ... rates ; and every letter or parcel not exceeding half an ounce in weight shall be deemed a single letter, and every additional weight of half an ounce, or additional weight of less than half an ounce, shall be charged with an additional single postage.
Seite 55 - ... wrappers and envelopes from all printed matter and pamphlets not charged with letter postage, for the purpose of ascertaining whether there is upon or connected with any such printed matter, or in such package, any matter or thing which would authorize or require the charge of a higher rate of postage thereon.
Seite 56 - June, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and whose labors may be increased, the postmaster-general shall be authorized, in his discretion, to allow such additional commissions as he may deem just and proper : Provided, That...
Seite 56 - ... punishable by a fine not exceeding $5,000 or by imprisonment not exceeding five years, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Seite 56 - That lists of letters remaining uncalled for in any post office, in any city, town or village where a newspaper shall be printed, shall hereafter be published once only in the newspaper which, being issued weekly or oftener, shall have the largest circulation within the range of delivery of said office* to be decided by the postmaster at such office, at such...
Seite 54 - ... thousand five hundred miles, four times those rates ; for any distance exceeding three thousand five hundred miles, five times those rates. Subscribers to all periodicals shall be required to pay one quarter's postage in advance ; in all such cases the postage shall be one half the foregoing rates.
Seite 55 - Department, deliver any postage stamps to any person or persons other than such as shall be authorized to receive the same by an instrument of writing duly executed under the hand of the Postmaster General, and the seal of the Post Office Department...
Seite 56 - June, 1S51, and whose labors may be increased, the Postmaster General shall be authorized in his discretion to allow such additional commissions as he may deem just and proper, provided that the whole amount of commissions allowed such postmaster during any fiscal year shall not exceed by more than 20 per centum the amount of commissions at such office for the year ending the 30th day of June, 1851.
Seite 54 - ... matter under the provisions of this section. And the postage on all printed matter other than newspapers and periodicals published at intervals not exceeding three months, and sent from the office of publication to...
Seite 58 - ... from the legal standard; and that, in adjusting the weight of the said coin, the following deviations from the standard weight shall not be exceeded, namely — • one half of a grain in the single piece, and one pennyweight in a thousand pieces.

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