5. The scale for computing the charge upon Letters weighing more than ½ ounce, will be the same as that for Letters passing within the Province.
6. Pre-payment of Letters passing between Canada and any place within the United States, including California and Oregon, will, in all cases, be optional.
7. Newspapers, Pamphlets, &c., posted in Canada, addressed to the United States, including California and Oregon, are, ... to be forwarded through the Post at the same rates of charge as if addressed to a place within the Province; the said rates must, however, be pre-paid—as, if the ordinary Canada Rate is not paid at the time of posting a Newspaper or Pamphlet, &c., it cannot be forwarded to the United States.
8. United States Newspapers, Pamphlets, &c., addressed to places in Canada, will be received in the Province with the American Postage thereon pre-paid—leaving the ordinary Canada Rate of charge from the Frontier Line to the place of destination, to be ... collected by the Post Master who may deliver the same in Canada.
9.-10.-11. [Copies of newspapers or printed documents sent by or to publishers or editors are free of Canadian postage.]
12. The Canada Postage Stamps, when used, will be taken in the United States as evidence of pre-payment of Postage on Letters going from Canada to the United States, and in like manner the United States Postage Stamps on Letters coming into Canada, are to be taken by Post Masters in this Province as evidence of pre-payment having been made in the United States.
13. The following are appointed to be the Offices in Canada through which the Post communication with the United States will be maintained, and to which Post Masters are to forward their Mail matter for the United States, according to the relative position of their several Offices:
| PORT SARNIA, WINDSOR, FORT ERIE, | KINGSTON, BROCKVILLE, PRESCOTT, MONTREAL, ST. JOHN'S, DUNDEE, STANSTEAD, | ||
| QUEENSTON, | { | Intended in the mean time tobe the Channel of Communicationwith the United States for theCountry West of Toronto. | |
| NIAGARA,TORONTO, | |||
| COBOURG, | { | A Communication during Summeronly, by Steamer to Rochester. | |
By Command,
W. H. GRIFFIN.