the foregoing rates, the following denominations of Postage Stamps
for use throughout the Dominion, have been prepared, and will be
supplied to Postmasters for sale:--

Half cent Stamps }
One cent do. }
Two cent do. } All bearing,
Three cent do. } as a device,
Six cent do. } the effigy
Twelve and a half cent do. } of Her Majesty.
Fifteen cent do. }

23.--The Postage Stamps now in use in the several Provinces may be
accepted, as at present, in prepayment of letters, etc., for a
reasonable time after the 1st. of April; but from and after that
date all issues and sales to the public will be of the new
denomination.

The section regarding "Franking and Free Matter" provides that only
letters sent to or by the Governor-General, the Speaker or Chief Clerk
of the Senate or of the House of Commons, Parliamentary papers, and
legislative documents, such as petitions, addresses, and votes, shall be
carried free of postage.

The most important change effected by the above quoted regulations was
the reduction of domestic postage from five cents to three cents. It
will be noted there are now no prepaid 5c or 17c rates and but one at
10c (on letters sent to British Columbia and Vancouver Island)
consequently these denominations were dropped from the new series. On
the other hand the 1/2c rate on transient newspapers, which had to be
prepaid, the regular 3c letter rate, the 6c rate to the United States,
and 15c for the new British Packet rate made necessary the issue of
these four values in addition to the 1c, 2c, and 12-1/2c denominations,
which were retained. All these stamps were printed by the line-engraved
process, as in the case of the earlier issues, the sheets consisting of
one hundred specimens arranged in ten horizontal rows of ten each. A new
firm--the British American Bank Note Company, of Montreal and
Ottawa--were entrusted with the manufacture of these stamps and, like
their predecessors, they applied their imprint to the plates, so that it
is shown four times on the margins of the sheets of the printed stamps.
Mr. Howes describes the imprint as follows:--

The imprint appears in colorless capitals on a narrow strip of
color with bossed ends, and reads BRITISH AMERICAN BANK NOTE CO.,
MONTREAL &