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90 cents American Bank Note ball band Bank Note Company blue bordered brown carmine Carrier's stamp cent stamps circular collectors color on white colorless capitals colorless line Congress denominations diagonal dollars double drop letters engraved exterior colored line exterior line extra line fine colored line five cents foliated ornaments frame line green grille hand stamp hatched ground imprint inscribed label large numerals Louis lower ment NINETY CENTS official stamps original outline capitals oval disk perforated 12 Philately Plate impression portrait Post Office Department postage due postage stamps prepaid prepayment printed reprints rosette scroll shaded sheet shield side line solid colored special delivery specimens squares stamped envelopes stamps issued ten cents Third Assistant Postmaster THIRTY CENTS three cents tion top and bottom triangle TWELVE CENTS U. S. Postage United unperforated upper corners varieties vermilion white paper York
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Page 243 - And if any person shall make use of any such official envelope to avoid the payment of postage on his private letter; package or other matter in the mail, the person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine of three hundred dollars, to be prosecuted in any court of competent
Page 81 - Department, deliver any postage stamps to any person or persons other than such as shall be authorized to receive the same by an instrument of writing duly executed under the hand of the Postmaster General, and the seal of the Post Office Department, shall on conviction thereof be deemed guilty of felony, and
Page 80 - but for delivery only, shall be charged with postage at the rate of one cent each, and all letters which shall hereafter be advertised as remaining over or uncalled for in any post office shall be charged with one cent in addition to the regular postage to be accounted for as
Page 192 - at the rate of two cents for each ounce or fraction thereof; and drop letters shall be mailed at the rate of two cents per ounce or fraction thereof, including delivery at letter carrier offices, and one cent for each ounce or fraction thereof where free delivery by
Page 243 - Sec. 6. That for the purpose of carrying this act into effect it shall be the duty of each of the Executive Departments of the United States to provide for itself and its subordinate officers the necessary envelopes, and in addition to the endorsement designating the Department in which they are to be used, the penalty for the unlawful use
Page 202 - office, or at any city, town or village containing a population of 4,000 or over, according to the Federal census, shall be regarded as entitling such letter to immediate delivery within the carrier limit of any free delivery office which may be designated by the Postmaster General as a
Page 225 - ounces in weight, to or from any member of the Senate or House of Representatives, the Secretary of the Senate, or Clerk of the House of Representatives, during their actual attendance in any session of Congress, and twenty days after such session, all letters to and from the Secretary of the Treasury and his assistant; Comptroller, Register and Auditor of the Treasury,
Page 81 - Act, whether the same are impressed or printed on or attached to envelopes or not, or any die, plate or engraving therefor, or shall make or print, or knowingly use or sell, or have in his possession, with intent to use or sell, any such false, forged or counterfeit
Page 244 - of official mail matter, be and they are hereby extended to all officers of the United States Government and made applicable to all official mail matter transmitted between any of the officers of the United States, or between any such officer and either of the Executive Departments or officers of the Government, the envelopes of such matter in all cases to bear appropriate
Page 196 - That all mail matter of the first class upon which one full rate of postage has been prepaid shall be forwarded to its destination charged with the unpaid rate, to be collected on delivery, but postmasters before delivering the same, or any article of mail matter upon which prepayment in full has not been made, shall affix, or cause -to be affixed,