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 'l`rru: xm'!. ~'l`HI*] POSTAL SERVICE.—Ch. 5. 76] C HAPTER FIVE. POSTAGE-STAMPS AND ENVELOPES. 3914. Postage-stamps. , 3921. Stamps to be defsced. 3915. Stamped envelopes.3922. Removing stamps from mail mat- 3916. Postal cards. ter; penalty. 3917. Improvements in stamps and en- 3923. Re-use of stamps; penalty. velopes. 3924. Removal and re-use of old stamps 3918. Sale of stamps at post-offices. by employe; penalty. 3919. Stamps and envelopes at udiscount. 3925. The same by persons not in post- 3920. Selling stamps at morc than face; office employ. penalty. §mc. 391-l·. The 1fostmaster—(}eneral shall prepare postagestamps of 1·¤smge·smmp¤. suitable denommations, which, when attached to nnul-matter, shall be ~ --——— evidence of the payment of the postage thereon. 3355 ·l¤¤j°· W7?. c. 304. l2 July, 1876, »·. 179, ~. 14, ··. 19, p. 82. 3 Mir., 1877, ··. 103, 3,2,  Sec. 39l5. The Postmaste1·-(ieneral shell provide suitable letter and Stamped envelnewspaper envelopes. with such watemuarks or other guards against °P¤¤- counterfeits as he may deem expedient, and with postage-stamps with his June rst2T such device and of such suitable denominations us he may direct, 3?6,s.16S$, v. 17; it impressed thereon; and such envelopes shall be known as "stan1ped 30*; envelopes," und shall be sold, ns nearly ns may be, at the cost of procur- ,732 _;nH‘ ligzg °‘ ing them. with the addition of the value of the ostage-stamps impressed 82;,’’p' thereon; but no stamped envelope furnished hy the Government shall 27 Hb., 1877, »·. contain any lithographingor engraving, nor any printing exceptuprinted 69· "· 19-1*- 250- request to return the letter to the writer. Letters and papers inclosed in such stamped envelopes shall, if the postagestanip is of a. denomination suiheient to cover the postage roperly changeable thereon, pass in the mail us prepaid mhtter. [The Fostmaster-General shall cause to be prepared n special stamp or stamped envelope, to be used only for officiulmai -matter, for each of the Executive Departments; and said stamps and stamped envelopes shall be supplied by the proper officer of said Dc artments to all persons under its direction requiringthe same for ofheialxlise; and all appropriations for postage made prior to March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, shall no longer be available for said purpose; and all stamps and stamped envelopes shall be sold or furnished to snid several Departments or clerks only at the price for which stamps and stamped envelopes of like value are sold at the several post-offices.] Sec. 3916. T0 facilitate letter correspondence, und to provide for the l’osm1ca¤Is. transmission in the mails, at at reduced rute of postage, of messages, 8 Lin; jg" v orders, notices, and other short communications, either printed or writ- 335, 176, v.17;pi ten rn pencil or ink, the Postmaster-Gener:1l is authorized and directed 304;) _ to furnish and issue to the public, with postage-stamps impresscd upon ,7i“q'{z’?Q }3'6i_,;· them, "postal eurds," lIl[lIlll`l:lI.(‘tl1l'(‘d. of good stiff paper, of such qunlity, Q; j[,,,1_,` {2;% {_: form, and size as he shall deem best adapted for general use: which lO3,x.4,•·.19,p.3l·!5. cards shall be used as u means of postal intercourse, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Postnmster-General, and when so used shull be transmitted through the mails nt n postage charge of one cent euvh, including the cost of their manufacture. Sec. 3917. The Postnnuster-General muy, from time to time, adopt such Improvcmenua in improvements in postage-staunps and stumped envclopes as he may deem g*“éQ|" and °""°’· udvisa.ble; und when uny such improvement is adopted it shall be sub- ject to all the provisions herein respecting postagwstnmps or stamped 335’s_ Hf_   I; cnvelopes. _ 304- Sec. 3918. Posta wstnmps and stamped envelopes shall be furnished Sale of stamps bv the Postiuuster-§em·ml to ull postmsmters, und shall be kept for sale Y ¥"’“i'°m°`°*’· at ull post-offices; und eueh postmaster shell he held accountable for all Ibid., s. 172. such stumps nnd envelopes furnished to him. _ ` Sec. 3919. Postagestamps und stumped envelopes muiy l)€·SOl(l at u hwmpvtandspdiscount to certain designated agents, who will ugreeto sel agsun without gui? “ “ '“‘ discount, under rules to be prescribed by the Postmaster-General; but the _, ___________
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