ere insert direction of the letter</i>.)|
| |
| C. D., Colonel(<i>or other commanding |
| Officer</i>) |
| ____Regiment________ |
+---------------------------------------------+
| To A. B., Private (<i>Serg. or Corp'l</i>) |
| ____Regiment________ |
| |
| (<i>Here the direction to be finished</i>.) |
+---------------------------------------------+

[Sidenote: Subject to pre-payment of foreign transit rates.]

Letters for soldiers or seamen may be forwarded at the above rate to or
through any country requiring the payment of any foreign or transit
rate, but subject to the payment of such foreign or transit rate, as may
be chargeable thereon.

[Sidenote: Re-direction.]

Soldiers and seamens letters are not liable to any additional rate on
re-direction.

[Sidenote: Conveyance.]

All soldiers' and seamens' letters are conveyed between Canada and the
United Kingdom by the Canadian line of steamers.

[Sidenote: Letters for commissioned officers, &c.]

Letters sent to or by commissioned or warrant officers, midshipmen or
master's mates, engineers in the navy, captain's clerks or first-class
schoolmasters, or commissioned or warrant officers in the army, are not
included in the privilege attached to letters of soldiers and seamen,
but are chargeable with the same rates as ordinary letters.

[Sidenote: Letters posted without compliance with regulations.]

Soldiers and seamens letters posted in Canada without a compliance with
the above regulations are liable to full postage. If posted in accordance
with the above regulations but without pre-payment of 2 cents they are
liable to a charge of 2d. sterling on delivery in the United Kingdom.

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RATES OF POSTAGE ON NEWSPAPERS.

[Sidenote: Definition.]

The law declares that for post office purposes a newspaper shall be held
to mean a periodical published not less frequently than once in each
week, and containing notices of passing events, that is to say, general
news.

[Sidenote: Can be sent otherwise than by post.]

Although provision is made for forwarding newspapers through the post,
it is not compulsory on any one to employ this mode of transmission;
everything except letters may be sent in any other way.

[Sidenote: Restrictions.]

A newspape