Dominion or in the United States, will be 3 cents
per ounce instead of 3 cents per half ounce as heretofore. Upon
Drop Letters posted at an Office from which letters are delivered
by Letter Carrier, the postage rate will be 2 cents per ounce,
instead of 1 cent per half ounce. The rate of postage upon Drop
Letters, except in the Cities where free delivery by Letter Carrier
has been established, will be 1 cent per ounce.

The fee for the Registration of a letter or other article of mail
matter, will be five cents upon all classes of correspondence
passing within the Dominion. For the present and until further
instructed, the registration fee may be prepaid by using the 2 cent
Registration Stamps and Postage Stamps to make up the amount.

Letters insufficiently prepaid will be charged double the
deficiency as heretofore, provided at least a partial payment has
been made. Letters posted wholly unpaid will be sent to the Dead
Letter Office for return to the writer.

JOHN G. HAGGART,
_Postmaster-General._

Post Office Department,
OTTAWA, 8th May, 1889.

_Reference List._

1870-82. Engraved and Printed by the British American Bank
Note Co. of Montreal and Ottawa. Wove paper. Perf. 12.

26. 1/2c black, Scott's No. 40.
27. 1c orange, Scott's No. 32.
28. 2c green. Scott's No. 33 or 41.
29. 3c red. Scott's No. 34 or 42.
30. 5c grey, Scott's No. 38 or 43.
31. 6c brown, Scott's No. 35 or 44.
32. 10c magenta or brown red, Scott's No. 36 or 45.

CHAPTER XI.--_The 20c and 50c Stamps of 1893._

The Postmaster-General's Report for 1892 states that "Postage stamps of
the value of 20 cents and 50 cents are about to be issued. These will be
useful in prepayment of parcel post." These high values were, of course,
intended to be used in making up relatively large amounts of postage.
They were not issued to be used in prepayment of any specific rates
though a study of the postal rates of the period show that the postage
on a parcel weighing up to one pound sent to the United Kingdom would
require a 20c stamp, while a 2 lb. parcel sent to Japan would take the
50c denomination. The same rates show that the postage on 1 lb. parcels
sent to Newfoundland was 15c, though no stamp of this value had been
issued subsequent to the series of 1868 nor has one ever since