other printed papers, and to subject the same to rates of postage according to the weight thereof, and a scale of weight to be contained in such Warrant, and from time to time, by Warrant, as aforesaid, to alter or repeal any such altered rates, and make and establish any new or other rates in lieu thereof, and from time to time, by Warrant, as aforesaid, to appoint at what time the rates which may be payable are to be paid. And whereas by another Act of Parliament, passed in the 11th year of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act for giving further facilities for the transmission of letters by post, and for the regulating the duties of postage thereon, and for other purposes relating to the Post-Office,"* further powers are given to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and power is also given to the Postmaster-General (amongst other things) to collect and receive the Foreign and Colonial postage charged or chargeable on any letters sent by the post, and also with the consent of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to require the postage, British, Colonial, or Foreign, of any letters sent by the post to be prepaid, either in money or in stamps, as he might think fit, on the same being put into the Post-Office, and also with such consent to abolish or restrict the pre-payment in money of postage on letters sent by the post either altogether or on certain letters, and to require the pre-payment thereof to be in stamps, and also to refuse to receive or send by the post any letters tendered contrary to any regulations thereby made, and power is also given to the Postmaster-General and any officer of the Post-Office to detain any letters which should be posted or sent by the post contrary to the regulations therein mentioned, and to open such letters, and either to return them to the senders thereof, or to forward them to the places of their destination, charged in either case with such rates of postage as the Postmaster-General, with the consent of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury should from time to time direct. And whereas the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have, by divers Warrants under their hands fixed, made, and established certain rates of British postage payable on the transmission by the post of certain Colonial letters therein respectively mentioned. And whereas the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, by a certain other warrant under their hands bearing date the 15th day of January, 1858,† did make regulations for the prepayment of the several rates of postage payable on letters posted in the United Kingdom addressed to any of the Colonies therein mentioned, and on letters posted in any of such Colonies addressed to the United Kingdom, and did (amongst other things) order and direct that on every letter posted in any of Her Majesty's Colonies in the West Indies (the islands of Barbadoes, Trinidad, and Turk's + See Vol. 10, Page 970 (SARDINIA). * See Vol. 8, Page 247. Island excepted), or in Malta, Gibraltar, or Hong Kong, addressed to the United Kingdom, the postage thereof should be paid at the time of the same being posted; and also that if any letter should be posted in any of the Colonies before-mentioned, addressed to the United Kingdom, without any postage having been paid thereon, or with a postage paid thereon less in amount than the single rate of postage chargeable thereon, every such letter should be detained and opened, and should be either returned or given up to the sender thereof; and also that if any letter should be posted in any of the before mentioned Colonies addressed to the United Kingdom, and the postage paid thereon should be less in amount than the rate of postage to which such packet would be liable under and by virtue of the regulations in force relating thereto, but equal in amount to the single rate of postage chargeable on any such letter, if not exceeding an ounce in weight, every such last mentioned letter should be forwarded charged with the amount of the difference between the postage paid thereon, and the postage to which it would have been liable if the postage had been paid when posted, together with the further and additional rate of postage of 6 pence; and also that the Commissioners for the time being of Her Majesty's Treasury might by Warrant, under their hands duly made at any time thereafter, alter, repeal, or revoke any of the orders, directions, or regulations thereby made, and might make and establish any new or other orders, directions, or regulations in lieu thereof. And whereas it is expedient to alter the said regulations so made by the said Treasury Warrant of the 15th day of January, 1858, as to the prepayment of the rates of postage upon certain of the said letters therein mentioned, and also as to the detaining and opening, and either returning or giving up to the senders thereof of certain other of the said letters therein mentioned in the manner hereinafter contained. Now we the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, in exercise of the powers reserved to us in and by the said hereinbefore recited Acts, or either of them, and of all other powers enabling us in this behalf, do by this present Warrant, under the hands of 2 of us the said Commissioners, by the authority of the statute in that case made and provided, order and direct as follows, that is to say: 1. That on every letter posted in any of Her Majesty's Colonies in the West Indies (the Islands of Barbadoes, Trinidad, and Turk's Island excepted), or in Malta, Gibraltar, or Hong Kang respectively addressed to any department or office in or connected with the public service of Her Majesty, which shall have a postage account with the General Post-Office in London, it shall not be necessary that the postage thereof shall be paid at the time of the same being posted; and that every such letter so posted in any of the said Colonies respectively, addressed as last aforesaid, shall and may be forwarded to the place of its destination, although the postage shall not have been paid thereon at the time of the same being posted; and the postage thereof shall be charged in such postage account anything in the said before recited Treasury Warrant, bearing date the 15th day of January, 1858, contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding. 2. And with respect to letters posted in Gibraltar or Malta, if any letter, not being a letter addressed to any department or office in or connected with the public service of Her Majesty which shall have a postage account with the General Post-Office in London, shall be posted in Gibraltar or Malta, addressed to the United Kingdom without any postage having been paid thereon, or with a postage paid thereon less in amount than the rate of postage chargeable thereon under and by virtue of the regulations in force relating thereto, and such letter, on being opened, shall be found to have originated in, and been sent from, any country or place out of Gibraltar and Malta, every such letter shall be forwarded to the place of its destination, charged with the rate of postage to which it would have been liable if the postage thereof had been paid when posted, together with the further and additional rate of postage of 6 pence, anything in the said before-recited Treasury Warrant bearing date the 15th day of January, 1858, contained to the contary thereof notwithstanding. 3. The terms and expressions used in this Warrant shall be construed to have the like meaning in all respects as they would have had if inserted in the said Act passed in the 4th year of the reign of Her present Majesty. 4. The Commissioners for the time being of her Majesty's Treasury may by Warrant under their hands duly made at any time hereafter alter, repeal, or revoke any of the orders, directions, and regulations hereby made, and may make and establish any new or other orders, directions, or regulations in lieu thereof. 5. This Warrant shall come into operation on the first day of March, 1858. Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, the 26th day of February, 1858. DUNCAN. H. BRAND. BRITISH TREASURY WARRANT, relative to the transmission through France of Books, Packets, &c., between certain British Colonies and certain Foreign Countries. April 13,1858. WHEREAS the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, in exercise of the powers reserved to them in and by a certain Act of Parliament passed in the 4th year of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act for the regulation of the duties of postage," and a certain other Act of Parliament, passed in the 11th year of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled "An Act for giving further facilities for the transmission of letters by post, and for the regulating the duties of postage thereon, and for other purposes relating to the Post-Office,"† did, by a certain Warrant in writing, under the hands of 2 of them the said Commissioners (by the authority of the statute in that case made and provided), bearing date the 21st day of July, 1857, order, direct, and declare (amongst other things), that all packets consisting of books, publications, or works of literature or art, whether British, Colonial, or Foreign, and all packets consisting of printed votes and proceedings of the Imperial Parliament or the Colonial Legislatures, might be transmitted by the post between any part of the United Kingdom, and any part of the several places mentioned and set forth to the Schedule A to the said now reciting Warrant annexed; and that all packets consisting of books, publications, or works of literature or art, whether British, Colonial, or Foreign, and all packets consisting of printed votes and proceedings of the Imperial Parliament or the Colonial Legislatures might be transmitted by the post between the several Colonies and places mentioned and set forth in the Schedule B to the said now reciting Warrant annexed; and that all such respective packets should be so transmitted respectively in conformity, and under and subject to, the several regulations, orders, directions, and conditions thereinafter respectively mentioned and contained. And that as respects certain of the said places in the said schedules respectively mentioned such transmission might also be by the routes mentioned against such places in such schedules respectively; and that the single rate of postage for the transmission thereof respectively should be that which was mentioned and set forth against the said places respectively in the said Schedules A and B. And that all such respective packets so transmitted should be subject to the several progressive and additional rates of postage thereinafter mentioned; and that the terms "books, publications, or works of literature or art," in the said now reciting Warrant used should, for the purposes of the said now reciting Warrant, mean and comprise all such articles as in their general character were either literary, or consisted of printed, written, engraved, or lithographed matter (although not strictly literary), including books (whether printed, written, or plain), publications or compilations (whether in print or in manuscript), almanacks, printed or lithographed letters, and such artistic productions as prints, maps (whether on paper or canvas or cloth, and whether printed or written), and photographs when not on glass, or in frames containing glass and any description of paper, parchment, or vellum (whether printed, lithographed, written upon or plain, or any mixture of the 4), together with any binding, † See this Vol., Page 688. mounting, or covering of or upon or belonging to any such article or production, or any portion thereof, or of or belonging to any paper, parchment, or vellum, and including also any cases or rollers of prints or maps, book-markers (whether of paper or otherwise), pencils, pens, or other thing usually appertaining to any such article or production, paper, parchment, or vellum, or necessary for its safe transmission, which should be sent in the same packet with any such article or production to which they or it should belong. * See Vol. 5, Page 248. † See Vol. 8, Page 247. Provided, nevertheless, that nothing in the said now reciting Warrant contained should extend to authorize the sending by the post, under the provisions of that Warrant, of any patterns, or books of patterns, or papers of patterns, of any article or thing whatsoever. And that nothing in the said now reciting Warrant contained should be construed to extend to any packets sent through France or any other Foreign country to which a transit rate of postage would be liable thereon. And that the Commissioners for the time being of Her Majesty's Treasury might, by Warrant under their hands, or the hands of any 2 of them, at any time thereafter, alter, repeal, or revoke any of the rates of postage thereby fixed or altered, or any of the orders, directions, regulations, and conditions thereby made, and might make and establish any new or other rates, orders, directions, regulations, and conditions in lieu thereof. And whereas the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, in exercise of the powers reserved to them in and by the said 2 before-mentioned Acts of Parliament, and also a certain other Act of Parliament passed in the 18th year of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to amend the laws relating to the stamp duties on newspapers, and to provide for the transmission by post of printed periodical publications,"* did by a certain other Warrant in writing, under the hands of 2 of them the said Commissioners (by the authority of the statute in that case made and provided), bearing date the 15th day of January, 1858,† order, direct, and declare (amongst other things), that all packets consisting of printed newspapers, whether British, Colonial, or Foreign, and all packets consisting of books, publications, or works of literature or art, whether British, Colonial, or Foreign, and all packets consisting of printed votes and proceedings of the Imperial Parliament, or the Colonial or Sardinian Legislatures, posted in any of the respective countries and places mentioned and set forth in the 1st column of the Schedule A to the said now reciting Warrant annexed, addressed to any of the respective countries and places mentioned and set forth in the 2nd column of the said Schedule A to the said now reciting Warrant annexed, might be transmitted by the post from any of the respective countries and places mentioned and set forth in the said 1st column of the said • See Vol, 10, Page 320. † See Vol. 10, Page 970 (SARDINIA).. |