Regulating Postal Rates: Hearings Before the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, House of Representatives, Seventieth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 9296, a Bill to Amend Title II of an Act Approved February 28, 1925, Regulating Postal Rates and for Other Purposes

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1928 - 425 pagina's

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Pagina 264 - Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences...
Pagina 1 - That, under such regulations as the Postmaster General may establish for the collection of the lawful revenue and for facilitating the handling of such matter in the mails, it shall be lawful to accept for transmission in the mails, without postage stamps...
Pagina 3 - On all matter mailed at the post office from which a rural route starts, for delivery on such route, or mailed at any point on such route for delivery at any other point thereon, or at the office from which the route starts, or on any rural route starting therefrom, and...
Pagina 63 - An Act reclassifying the salaries of postmasters and employees of the Postal Service, readjusting their salaries and compensation on an equitable basis, increasing postal rates to provide for such readjustment, and for other purposes", approved February 28, 1925, as amended (USC, title 39, sec.
Pagina 48 - That a joint committee shall be appointed, composed of five Members of the Senate, to be designated by the chairman of the Senate Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, and five...
Pagina 16 - Chairman, Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, House of Representatives. MY DEAR MR.
Pagina 3 - ... within its delivery limits, for delivery by carriers from that office, or at any office for local delivery, 7 cents for the first pound or fraction of a pound, and 1 cent for each additional two pounds or fraction thereof.
Pagina 3 - ... if the Postmaster General shall find on experience that they or any of them are such as to prevent the shipment of articles desirable, or to permanently render the cost of the service greater than the receipts of the...
Pagina 2 - TRANSIENT SECOND CLASS SEC. 5. Section 203, Title II, of the Act of February 28, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes, page 1067, United States Code, title 39, section 287), is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 203. The rate of postage on publications entered as second-class matter, when sent by others than the publisher or news agent, shall be 1 cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof.
Pagina 2 - ... ounces in weight the rate shall be by the pound, as hereinafter provided, the postage in all cases to be prepaid by distinctive postage stamps affixed.

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