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CONTENTS.

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A Few Facts about the Post Office in Canada 9

Chief Officers of the Department at Quebec 15

Post Office Inspectors 15

Postal Divisions 16

RULES AND REGULATIONS:
Officers 17
Post Office 17
Office Hours 18
Mails 18
Rates of Postage on Letters 19
Soldiers' and Seamen's Letters 20
Rates of Postage on Newspapers 21
Periodical Publications 24
Book Post 25
Printed Papers, Prices Current, Hand Bills, &c. 26
Printed Votes and Proceedings of the Imperial Parliament
and Colonial Legislatures 27
Parcel Post 27
Franking and Free Letters 28
Abating and Refunding Postage 28
Undelivered and Dead Letters 29
Registration 30
Postage Stamps 30
Money Orders 31

General Regulations 33

Suggestions to the Public 34

Rates of Postage from Canada to British Colonies and Foreign
Countries, by Canadian Ocean Steamers 36

Rates of Postage from Canada to British Colonies, &c., by
Cunard Steamers 39

Do. do. do. by the United States 40

A FEW FACTS ABOUT THE POST OFFICE IN CANADA.

COMPILED FROM AUTHENTIC SOURCES.

The earliest records of the administration of the post office in Canada
bear date 1750, at which period the celebrated Benjamin Franklin was
Deputy Postmaster General of North America. At the