Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery

by Clifton A. Howes

of former Acts were embodied almost as they stood in the new statute. We reproduce its most important features in our line of inquiry.

31^o Vict. Cap. X.

An Act for the regulation of the Postal Service.

[Assented to 21st. December, 1867.]

Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

Preliminary—Interpretation.

1. This Act shall be known and may be cited as The Post Office Act 1867; and the following terms and expressions therein shall be held to have the meaning hereinafter assigned to them....

The term "Letter" includes Packets of Letters;

The term "Postage" means the duty or sum chargeable for the conveyance of Post Letters, Packets and other things by Post;

The term "Foreign Country" means any country not included in the dominions of Her Majesty;