[Sidenote: Books, &c., cannot be registered.]

Books, periodicals, newspapers, circulars, and other printed matter,
cannot be registered unless pre-paid the full letter rates, in addition
to the ordinary registration fee.

[Sidenote: Receipt required on Delivery.]

Registered letters and packets can only be delivered to the parties to
whom they are addressed or to their order, and a receipt must be given
on the delivery of each registered letter in a book kept by every
Postmaster for that purpose.

[Sidenote: Post office not responsible for loss.]

It should be clearly understood that the post office is not responsible
for the safe delivery of a registered letter or parcel. The registration
simply makes its transmission more secure, by rendering it practicable
to trace it, when passing from one place to another in Canada, from its
receipt to its delivery; and when addressed from any place in Canada to
any place in the United States, the United Kingdom, or parts abroad, if
not to its delivery, at least to the frontier or port of despatch.

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POSTAGE STAMPS.

[Sidenote: Prices of stamps.]

Every postmaster is required to have on hand a sufficient stock of
postage stamps, and to sell them to the public at 1 cent, 5 cents, 10
cents, 12-1/2 cents, and 17 cents each.

[Sidenote: Envelopes.]

Letter envelopes are also provided with medallion, stamps equivalent to
5 cents and 10 cents postage, each. The 5 cent envelopes are sold
singly at 6 cents each; 66 cents per dozen; $5.50 per hundred. The 10
cent envelopes are sold singly at 11 cents each; $1.26 per dozen; $10.50
per hundred.

[Sidenote: Sale to dealers.]

With the approval of the Postmaster General, postage stamps are sold to
certain dealers to retail again to the public.

[Sidenote: Pre-payment in stamps.]

Pre-payment of letters should, in all cases where practicable, be made
by postage stamps.

[Sidenote: Mutilated stamps.]

A mutilated stamp, or a stamp cut in half, is not recognized in
pre-payment of postage.

[Sidenote: Medallion stamps.]

A medallion stamp cannot be accepted in pre-payment of postage if
separated from the envelope of which it may have formed a part.

[Sidenote: British and foreign.]

No British stamps, or stamps of a foreign country, can be received in
pre-payment of postage in Canada.

[Sidenote: Mode of affixing.]

In affixing the stamp to the letter wet slightly the corner of the
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