ufficient it will, on your requisition addressed to this
branch, be supplemented; but as the Jubilee issue is limited, it
would be necessary for you to apply early in order to secure
further supplies of the same.

I am also to instruct you not to sell any of the accompanying
stamps or postcards before the opening of your office at the
regular office hours on the 19th June instant--the eve of the
anniversary they are intended to commemorate.

These stamps and cards are, of course, like the ordinary issues, to
be sold at face value.

I am, Sir, Your Obedient Servant
E. P. STANTON, _Superintendent._

P. S.--As there appears to be a somewhat general desire on the part
of many persons to purchase, for souvenir purposes, complete sets
of the Jubilee stamps, it is hoped that you will so manage the sale
of such stamps that persons applying to purchase full sets may be
able to get them.--E. P. S.

The stamps were placed on sale throughout the Dominion on the morning of
Saturday, the 19th of June the eve of Jubilee day proper. Naturally
there was a big rush on the part of the public to obtain specimens of
the much heralded stamps and in the larger centres the post offices were
literally besieged. Speculators tried to corner the 1/2c and 6c
denominations, which advance particulars had shown to be the most
desirable of the lower values, but the stamps were doled out carefully
and large orders were promptly and firmly refused. But though care was
exercised the department was convinced, from the result of the first
day's sale, that steps would have to be taken to further restrict the
sale of the desirable denominations. The demand for the stamps at the
chief office was so great that a circular letter was prepared to be
despatched to applicants, this reading as follows:--

POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, CANADA,
POSTAGE STAMP BRANCH, OTTAWA,
_26th June, 1897._

Sir,--With reference to the numerous demands upon this office for
the 1/2c and 6c Jubilee stamps, I am directed to explain that the
respective quantities of Jubilee stamps ordered bear, relatively,
the same proportions to the actual requirements of the Postal
Service, but the tendency to exhaust the HALVES and SIXES has
increased to such a degree, that it has become necessary to
restrict their sale to the purchasers of full sets. Hence I am to