Third Class Mail Matter
By Editor
The following to postmasters will be instructive also to the general public:— WASHINGTON, D. C., March 6, 1875. To THE POSTMASTER AT——, Sir: You are hereby instructed that under the provisions of the act approved March 3, 1875, entitled, "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876, and for other purposes," the postage to be hereafter charged on all mailable matter of the third class referred to in section 133 of the act entitled, "An act to revise, consolidate, and amend the statutes relating to the Post Office Department," approved June 8, 1872, shall be at the rate of one cent for each ounce or fraction thereof, instead of one cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof, as heretofore provided by law. The 133rd section reads as follows:— That mailable matter of the third class shall embrace all pamphlets, occasional publications, transient news papers, magazines, hand-bills, posters, unsealed circulars, proof-sheets, corrected proof-sheets, maps, prints, engravings, blanks, flexible patterns, samples of merchandise not exceeding twelve ounces in weight, sample-cards, photographic paper, letter envelopes and wrappers, cards, plain and ornamental paper, phothgraphic representatitives of different kinds of types, seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots, scions, and other matter which may be declared mailable by law, and all other articles not above the weight prescribed by law, which are not from their form and nature, liable to destroy, deface, or otherwise injure the contents of the mail bag or the person of any one engaged in the postal service. All liquid poisons, glass, explosive materials, and obscene books shall be excluded from the mails.