| Not exceeding 2 oz. | 4 | cents. |
| 2 to 4 oz. | 8 | ” |
| 4 to 8 oz. | 16 | ” |
| 8 to 12 oz. | 24 | ” |
| 12 oz. to 1 lb. | 32 | ” |
| and so on. | ||
A Book Packet may contain any number of separate books, publications, works of literature and art, maps or prints, photographs, daguereotypes, when not on glass, or in frames containing glass; any quantity of paper, vellum, or parchment (to the exclusion of letters); and the books, maps, papers, &c., may be either written, printed, or plain, or any mixture of the three; and may be either British, colonial or foreign.
Book Packages must be open at both ends or both sides.
(d)—PARCEL POST.
| Not exceeding ½ lb. | 12½ | cents. |
| ½ lb. to 1 lb. | 25 | ” |
| 1 lb. to 1½ lb. | 37½ | ” |
| 1½ lbs. to 2 lbs. | 50 | ” |
| 2 lbs. to 2½ lbs. | 62½ | ” |
| 2½ lbs. to 3 lbs. | 75 | ” |
| 3 lbs. to 3½ lbs. | 87½ | ” |
| 3½ lbs. to 4 lbs. | $1.00. | |
Registration Fee 5 cents.
Parcels can only be sent by Post to places in Canada, and may contain books, daguereotypes, photographs, printers’ proof and copy, military returns, states and rolls containing written figures and signatures, returns, deeds, legal papers, and all transmissions of a like character, not being strictly letters.
REGISTRATION.
No letter, book, newspaper, parcel or packet of any kind whatever, can in future be received for registration unless both postage and registration fee are fully prepaid; prepayment should, if possible, be by postage stamps.