ce Edward
Island or Newfoundland.

PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS.

16.--When posted in Canada, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland or
the United States, the rate will be one cent per four ounces.

17.--A like rate will be payable on delivery in Canada, when
received for the United States, Prince Edward Island or
Newfoundland.

18.--Periodicals weighing less than one ounce per number, when
posted in Canada for any place within the Dominion, Prince Edward
Island, Newfoundland or the United States may, when put up singly,
pass for one-half cent per number, to be prepaid by Postage Stamp.

19.--As the Postage Rates on Periodicals, other than Newspapers,
will be payable in advance, and as certain classes of such
periodicals, printed and published in Canada, and sent from the
office of publication to regular subscribers, have for some time
past been exempted from postage when exclusively devoted to the
education of youth, to temperance, agriculture and science, or for
other reasons, it is ordered, that with respect to periodicals
which do now enjoy this privilege or exemption, the exemption shall
continue until the expiration of the current year--that is, until
the 31st December, 1868, and that from the 1st January, 1869, all
such special exemptions and privileges shall cease.

PARCEL POST.

20.--The rate on Parcels, by Parcel Post, will be 12-1/2 cents per
8 ounces, that is to say:--

On a parcel not exceeding 8 oz., 12-1/2 cents.

Over 8 oz., and not exceeding 1 lb., 25 cents.

Over 1 lb. and not exceeding 24 oz., 37-1/2 cents.

And so on, to the limit of three lbs.

BOOK AND NEWSPAPER MANUSCRIPT, AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS MATTER.

21. On Book and Newspaper Manuscript (meaning written articles
intended for insertion in a newspaper or periodical, and addressed
to the Editor or Publisher thereof, for insertion), Printers' Proof
Sheets, whether corrected or not, Maps, Prints, Drawings,
Engravings, Music, whether printed or written, packages of Seeds,
Cuttings, Roots, Scions or Grafts, and Botanical Specimens, the
rate will be 1 cent per ounce, when posted for any place in Canada
or the United States, and prepaid by Postage Stamp.

POSTAGE STAMPS.

22.--To enable the Public to prepay conveniently by Postage Stamps