COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PATTERN AND SAMPLE POST.
A Packet of Patterns or Samples sent to France, must not exceed 18 inches in length, width or depth; a packet to any other place abroad must not exceed 24 inches in length or 12 inches in breadth or depth.
A Packet of Patterns or Samples sent to Germany or Belgium must not exceed 8 ounces in weight.
None of the articles named in Rule 3, may be sent as Patterns or Samples to any place abroad, except Germany, Belgium, and the British Colonies, and not to those places when addressed “viâ France.”
Bags entirely closed even though they may be transparent, must not be used for the transmission of seeds to foreign parts.
W. P. HOWLAND,
Postmaster General.
Post Office Department,
Ottawa, February, 1866.
Transcriber’s Note: The following appeared on an errata slip pasted into the volume. The errata have been corrected.