25,000 $1 "
25,000 $2 "
25,000 $3 "
25,000 $4 "
25,000 $5 "
7,000,000 1c postcards.

Total value of one stamp of each kind $16.21-1/2.

As soon as the total number of stamps mentioned in said schedule is
issued the plates from which they will have been engraved will be
destroyed in the presence of the head and two officers of the
department. On the 10th of June the Post Office Department will
proceed to supply Jubilee postage stamps to the principal
post-offices in Canada, and through them minor post offices will
obtain their supply until the issue is exhausted. If this Jubilee
issue were to wholly displace the ordinary postage stamps it would
supply the ordinary wants of the country for between two and three
months, but as the use of the ordinary postage stamps will proceed
concurrently with that of the Jubilee stamps, it is expected that
the Jubilee stamps will last beyond the three months. Inasmuch as
the department is already receiving applications for the purchase
of Jubilee stamps, it may be stated that the department will adhere
to the established practice of supplying them only to postmasters,
and through them to the public, who may purchase them on and after
the 19th June, 1897.

It will be noted that the Post-Office Department made no pretense about
the matter but stated quite candidly that the issue would be limited and
before very long, by means of different official notices and
communications it was made quite plain that the issue was intended to
_sell_ and that restrictions would be placed on the scale of the more
desirable values, which were issued in but small quantities. With the
first supply of these stamps sent to postmasters the following circular
was sent:--

N. B.--Requisitions for _full sets_ of the Jubilee stamps will be
filled until the issue is exhausted.--E. P. S.

POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, CANADA,
POSTAGE STAMP BRANCH,
OTTAWA, _June, 1897._

Sir:--I am directed by the Postmaster-General to send you herewith
a supply of the Jubilee stamps and 1c post card, equal to one
month's ordinary requirements of your office. Should this quantity
prove ins