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or fraternal organizations or associations not organized for profit and none of the net income of which inures to the benefit of any private stockholder or individual, or between such organizations and their members or readers or borrowers, shall be charged with postage at the rate of 4 cents for the first pound and 1 cent for each additional pound or fraction thereof, except that the rates now or hereafter prescribed for third- or fourth-class matter shall apply in every case where such rate is lower than the rate prescribed in this subsection, and this rate shall continue until otherwise provided by the Congress: (i) books consisting wholly of reading matter or scholarly bibliography or reading matter with incidental blank spaces for students' notations and containing no advertising matter other than incidental announcements of books; (ii) printed/music, whether in bound form or in sheet form; (iii) bound volumes of academic theses in typewritten or other duplicated form and bound volumes of periodicals; (iv) phonograph recordings; and (v) other library materials in printed, duplicated, or photographic form or in the form of unpublished manuscripts. "(2) The rate provided in paragraph (1) for books may apply to sixteen-millimeter films, filmstrips, transparencies for projection and slides, microfilms, sound recordings, and catalogs of such materials when sent in parcels not exceeding seventy pounds in weight to or from (A) schools, colleges, or universities and (B) public libraries, religious, educational, scientific, philanthropic, agricultural, labor, veterans', or fraternal organizations or associations, not organized for profit and none of the net income of which inures to the benefit of any private stockholder or individual. "(3) Public libraries, organizations, or associations, before being entitled to the rates specified in paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection, shall furnish to the Postmaster General, under such regulations as he may prescribe, satisfactory evidence that none of their net income inures to the benefit of any private stockholder or individual." (c)(1) The first section of the Act entitled "An Act to readjust the size and weight limitations on fourth-class (parcel post) mail", approved October 24, 1951 (65 Stat. 610; 39 U.S.C. 240a), is amended by striking out the words "over eight ounces" each place they appear therein and inserting in lieu thereof the words "sixteen ounces or over". (2) Section 207(a) of the Act of February 28, 1925 (39 U.S.C. 240), as amended, is amended by striking out the words "in excess of eight ounces" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "sixteen ounces or over". BOOKS rOK THE BLIND

SEC. 207. The Act entitled "An Act to further amend the Acts for promoting the circulation of reading matter among the blind", approved October 14, 1941 (55 Stat. 737), is amended by inserting immediately after "for which no subscription fee is charged" a semicolon and the following: "books, or pages thereof, in raised characters, whether prepared by hand or printed, which contain no advertisements, when furnished by any person to a blind person without cost to such blind person". SUBSCRIPTION ORDER, BILL, A N D RECEIPT FORMS

SEC. 208. The final clause in the first sentence of the Act of January 20, 1888 (25 Stat. 1; 39 U.S.C. 249), is amended by striking out the

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