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Page xvi - Congress, except the right to receive letters and packets free during the period intervening between the adjournment of one Congress and the meeting of the next. The Governors of States may send, free of postage, all laws and reports, whether bound or unbound, and all records and documents of their respective States, which may be directed by the Legislatures of the several States to be transmitted to the Executive of other States, the Governor writing his name thereon, with the designation of his...
Page xvi - ... from a territory of the United States, the secretary of the senate, and the clerk of the house of representatives may, during each session of congress, and for a period of thirty days before the commencement and thirty days after the end of each and every session of Congress, receive through the mail, free of postage, any letter, newspaper, or packet, not exceeding two ounces in weight ; and all postage charged upon any letters, packages, petitions, memorials, or other matters or things received...
Page 192 - Oregon, Wisconsin ; 4th, Connecticut, Colorado, Illinois, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin ; 5th, Alabama...
Page 127 - Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Wisconsin, while in the others the requirement is either simply that it may be executed by a party or his "agent " or " attorney," or it adds " lawfully authorized,
Page xvi - December following the expiration of their respective terms of office. 'stat- "°i 35&That it shall be lawful to transmit through the mail, free of postage, any letters, packages, or other matters relating exclusively to the business of the Government of the United States: Provided, That every such letter or package to entitle it to pass free shall bear over the words "Official business...
Page 110 - The principal manufacturing areas of the luggage and leather goods industry are in the States of California, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.
Page xv - ... operation on the first of last October, the postage is now two cents to any part of the United States, on all letters not exceeding half an ounce in weight. This rate certainly seems cheap enough, but in time the public will demand the same service for a cent Less than forty years ago the charge was five cents for any distance not exceeding three hundred miles, and ten cents for any greater distance. This was the rate established by the law which took effect on July i, 1845 ; and it was not changed...
Page v - Maine (Augusta) New Hampshire (Concord) Vermont (Montpelier) Massachusetts (Boston) Rhode Island (Providence) Connecticut (Hartford...
Page 134 - Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Page v - NEW YORK Albany NEW JERSEY, Trenton. PENNSYLVANIA Harrisburgh. DELAWARE Dover. MARYLAND Annapolis. VIRGINIA Richmond. NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh. SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia. GEORGIA Milledgeville. FLORIDA Tallahassee.