8. RATES OF FOREIGN POSTAGE, AND OF POSTAGE TO OREGON AND CALIFORNIA. 1. Great Britain and Ireland. Between the United States and Great Britain and Ireland, letters are rated, by weight, as in the United States. Between any office in the United States (Oregon and California excepted) and any office in Great Britain and Ireland, the entire postage is 24 cents the single letter, which may be prepaid or sent unpaid. Between the offices of California and Oregon and those of Great Britain and Ireland, the entire postage is 59 cents the single letter, which may be prepaid or sent unpaid. The entire postage, or nothing, must be prepaid. 2. Foreign Countries and Cities, via England. TABLE 1.— On all correspondence between the United States and the following-named countries, the United States postage, and that only, must be collected in the United States, by prepayment when sent, and on delivery when received, at the rate of 5 cents the single letter when conveyed by British packet, (unless from or to Oregon or California, then 40 cents,) and 21 cents the single letter when conveyed by United States packet, (unless, as aforesaid, from or to Oregon or California, then 56 cents,) to wit:* | Holland, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Sweden, Venetian States, Wallachia, West Indies, &c., Brit Alexandria, City of, Bavaria, Belgium, Bremen, Free City of, Moldavia, TABLE 2. — On all correspondence between the United States (Oregon and California excepted) and the following-named countries through the United Kingdom, and by the routes here specified, there must be prepaid when sent, and collected when received, the following rates, for the single letter of half an ounce in weight : *This does not supersede the American line to Bremen. See post, p. 159. † Via Marseilles. The places marked thus (a) are by French packet, via Marseilles; those marked (b) are via France; and the others are by closed mail, via Marseilles. On British, sea, and American inland postage, the single letter is oz.; on foreign postage, the single letter is less than oz. Letters weighing oz. and under oz. are charged two rates; oz. and under, three rates, &c.; an additional rate being charged for each quarter of an ounce. Thus, a letter directed to the East Indies by a British steamer, and weighing less * Via Southampton. † Via Southampton and India. § Via France. than oz., will be charged 65 cents postage; if oz. or more, and less than oz., 75 cents must be paid, the foreign postage only being doubled for each oz. Where the correspondence with the countries in the foregoing tables is from or to Oregon or California, the single-letter rate, to be collected by prepayment or on delivery, is to be in each instance 35 cents more than the amounts given. 3. Postage by the New York, Southampton, and Bremen Line of Steamers. The following are the rates of postage prescribed by the act of the 3d of March, 1845, for mailable matter sent by this line to Europe: For all letters and packages not exceeding half an ounce in weight, For all letters and packages over half an ounce and under one ounce, For every additional half-ounce, 24 cents. 3 For every letter, newspaper, pamphlet, and price-current, It should be prepaid on letters addressed to any of the following countries and places, viz. : —Denmark, Norway, St. Petersburgh or Cronstadt, Sweden, Alexandria, Austria (empire and provinces), Baden, Basle and other parts of Switzerland, Bavaria, Cairo, Constantinople, Greece, and the eastern towns of Italy. On letters addressed to the following countries and places, the foreign postage, to the place of destination, may be added to the United States postage, and the whole be prepaid, — or the American postage alone may be prepaid,- —or the whole postage may be left unpaid, at the option of the sender, viz.: 6 cents. Mecklenburg-Strelitz, . 12 cents. Nothing. Nassau, Bremen, 12 66 4. Other Foreign Letter Postage. The postage on single letters, not exceeding half an ounce in weight, from any part of the United States to Havana, or any part of Cuba, is 12 cents; to Chagres, 20 cents; to Panama, 30 cents; all to be prepaid. On letters for any South American port on the Pacific, or for the Sandwich Islands, the postage to Panama only is to be prepaid. A single letter to Halifax by the British steamer is rated at 5 or 10 cents, according to distance; to Upper Canada and New Brunswick, 10 cents; to Lower Canada, 5 cents, all to be prepaid. These rates to Lower and Upper Canada and New Brunswick pay only to the lines, whence the letters are immediately forwarded to their place of destination. 5. Newspaper and Pamphlet Postage. On each newspaper sent between Great Britain and the United States, except by the Bremen line, (see p. 159,) the postage is 4 cents, — 2 cents to be paid in each country. On each newspaper sent to or from a foreign country, through Great Britain, the postage is 4 cents, to be paid by the party sending or receiving it. There must be prepaid on each newspaper to Cuba by the Charleston and New York steam-packets, 4 cents; to Chagres, Panama, any South American port on the Pacific, or to the Sandwich Islands, by steamer from Charleston, 4 cents; and to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Upper or Lower Canada, 1 cents. On each periodical and pamphlet between Great Britain and the United States, the United States postage is 2 cents, if not over 2 ounces in weight, and 1 cent per ounce or fraction of an ounce over 2 ounces, always to be prepaid. An additional British postage of the same rate, when not exceeding 2 ounces, must be paid in England; but the third ounce raises the British charge to 6 pence, with 2 pence additional for each additional ounce. XII. MINT. Ir is lawful for any person or persons to bring to the Mint gold and silver bullion to be coined; and the bullion so brought is there assayed and coined, as speedily as may be after the receipt thereof, and, if of the standard of the United States, free of expense to the person or persons by whom it has been brought. But the Treasurer of the Mint is not obliged to receive, for the purpose of refining and coining, any deposit of less value than one hundred dollars, nor any bullion so base as to be unsuitable for minting. And there must be retained from every deposit of bullion below the standard such sum as shall be equivalent to the expense incurred in refining, toughening, and alloying the same; an accurate account of which expense, on every deposit, is kept, and of the sums retained on account of the same, which are accounted for by the Treasurer of the Mint with the Treasurer of the United States. Officers of the Mint at Philadelphia. R. M. Patterson, Director, Salary. $3,500 Richard J. McCulloh, Melter Salary. $2,000 2,000 Jas. B. Longacre, Engraver, 2,000 2,000 W. E. Dubois, Assist. Assayer, 1,300 Officers of the Branch at New Orleans, La. J.M. Kennedy, Superintend., $2,500 John Brooks, Coiner, M.F. Bonzano, Melter & Refiner, 2,000 Officers of the Branch at Dahlonega, Ga. $2,000 2,500 J. F. Cooper, Superintendent, $2,000|John D. Field, Jr., Coiner, $1,500 Isaac L. Todd, Assayer, 1,500 Officers of the Branch at Charlotte, N. C. 1,500 W. J.Alexander,Superintend., $2,000|John R. Bolton, Coiner, J. H. Gibbon, Assayer, 1. $1,500 Statement of the Deposits for Coinage, at the Mint of the United States and its Branches, in the Year 1848. 2. Statement of the Coinage of the Mint of the United States and Branches in the Year 1848. |