Over four ounces in weight.

Prepayment.

more frequently from a known office of publication, and sent to regular subscribers, shall be as follows: Upon newspapers and Newspapers, &c. other periodical publications, each not exceeding the standard weight of four ounces, and passing through the mails or post offices of the United States between any points therein, the rate for each quarter of the year shall be: for publications issued once a week, five cents; issued twice a week, ten cents; issued three times a week, fifteen cents; issued six times a week, thirty cents; issued seven times a week, thirty-five cents; and in that proportion, adding one rate for each issue more frequent than once a week. For weight exceeding four ounces, and not exceeding eight ounces, an additional rate shall be charged; and on the same scale an additional rate for each additional weight of four ounces or fraction thereof; and such postage must be prepaid for a term not less than one quarter nor more than one year, at either the office of mailing or of delivery, at the option of the subscriber, of which payments a record shall be made and preserved in the post office where paid; and no such publication shall be delivered from the office until such payment is made; but the publishers of weekly newspapers may send to each actual subscriber within the county Newspapers where their papers are printed and published one copy thereof free of postage. SEC. 36. And be it further enacted, That the rate of postage odicals issued less upon mailable matter of the second class, issued less frequently than once a week. than once a week, from a known office of publication, and sent to regular subscribers, shall be as follows: Upon newspapers, magazines, and other periodical publications, each not exceeding the standard weight of four ounces, and passing through the mails or post offices of the United States between any points therein, the rate for each such paper or periodical shall be one cent, and an additional rate of one cent for each additional weight of four ounces or fraction thereof: Provided, That the Postmaster General may provide by regulation for the transportation of small newspapers in packages at the same rate by the standard weight of the package Packages. when sent to one address; and the rates herein provided must be prepaid at either the office of mailing or of delivery, at the option of the subscriber, for a term not less than one quarter nor more than one year, except that newsdealers may pay the postage upon their packages as received at the same rates pro rata as yearly or semi-annual subscribers who pay postage quarterly in advance.

within the county to be free.

Postage on peri

Subscription bills

SEC. 37. And be it further enacted, That publishers may enclose in their publications sent to regular subscribers the bills for may be enclosed. subscription thereto without any additional charge for postage, and may write or print upon their publication, or upon the wrappers thereof, the name and address of the subscribers thereto, and the date when the subscription will expire; but any other enclosure or addition in writing or in print shall subject the same to letter postage, which shall be collected before delivery thereof.

SEC. 38. And be it further enacted, That the Postmaster General may from time to time provide by order the rates and terms upon which route agents may receive and deliver, at the mail car or steamer, packages of newspapers and periodicals delivered to them for that purpose by the publishers, or any news agent in charge thereof, and not received from, nor designed for delivery at any post office.

Delivery

route agents.

by

Wrappersof mail

matter.

Postmasters may remove wrappers, &c.

Publishers may be required to

SEC. 39. And be it further enacted, That the Postmaster General has authority to prescribe by regulation the manner of wrapping and securing for the mails all matter not charged with letter postage nor lawfully franked, so that the same may be conveniently examined by postmasters; and if not so wrapped and secured, the same shall be subject to letter postage. He may also provide by regulation for ascertaining by furnished lists, by affidavit or otherwise, whether publishers send or have sent their publications unpaid through the mails to other than their regular subscribers.

SEC. 40. And be it further enacted, That postmasters at the office of delivery are authorized, and it shall be their duty, to remove the wrappers and envelopes from printed and other matter not charged with letter postage nor lawfully franked, for the purpose of ascertaining whether there is upon, or connected with, any such printed matter or in such package any matter or thing which would authorize or require the charge of a higher rate of postage thereon.

SEC. 41. And be it further enacted, That the Postmaster Genmake affidavit, &c. eral may require an affidavit in form, to be prescribed by general regulation, to be taken by any publisher, or any clerk, agent, or servant of such publisher of any paper or periodical, which, by the terms of this act, may be sent to regular subscribers without prepayment of postage at the mailing office, to the effect that neither he nor any other proprietor, clerk, agent, or employé, within his knowledge, has sent, or caused or permitted to be sent, through the mails, without prepayment by postage stamps, any copies of such paper or periodical, (naming it,) except the same were sent Penalty for send- to bona fide and regular subscribers thereto. And if it be ascering to ouers tuan tained that such papers or periodicals have been thus unlawfully sent, with the knowledge or consent of such proprietors, or of the agent or clerk in charge of that business, or if such affidavit, when required by the Postmaster General, or by a special agent of the Post Office Department, shall be refused, the person guilty of such offence, or refusing such oath, shall be liable to a fine of fifty dollars in each case, to be recovered by suit before any court of competent jurisdiction, one-half of which when recovered shall be paid to the informer.

subscribers, &c.

One-half to informer.

Franking privilege.

SEC. 42. And be it further enacted, That authority to frank mail matter is conferred upon and limited to the following persons: First. The President of the United States, by himself or his private secretary. Second. The Vice-President of the United States. Third. The chiefs of the several executive departments. Fourth. Such principal officers, being heads of bureaus or chief clerks, of each executive department, to be used only for official communications, as the Postmaster General shall by regulation prescribe. Fifth. Senators and representatives in the Congress of the United States, including delegates from Territories, the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives; to cover correspondence to and from them, and all printed matter issued by authority of Congress, and all speeches, proceedings, and debates in Congress, and all printed matter sent to them; their franking privilege to commence with the term for which they are elected, and to expire on the first Monday of December following such term of office. Sixth. All official communications addressed

Envelopes, how

marked.

Penalty for false

to either of the executive departments of government by an officer responsible to that department: Provided, That in all such cases the envelope shall be marked "official," with the signature thereto of the officer writing the communication. Seventh. Postmasters have also the franking privilege for their official communications to other postmasters: Provided, That in all such cases the envelope shall be marked "official" with the signature of the writer thereto, and for any and every such endorsement of "official" falsely made the person making the same shall forfeit and pay three hundred dollars. Eighth. Petitions to either branch of marking. Congress shall pass free in the mails. Ninth. All communications addressed to any of the franking officers above described, and not excepted in the foregoing clauses, must be prepaid by postage stamps. The franking privilege hereinbefore granted shall be limited to packages weighing not exceeding four ounces, except petitions to Congress and congressional or executive documents, and such publications or books as have or may be published, procured, or purchased by order of either house of Congress, or a joint resolution of the two houses, which shall be considered as public documents, and entitled to be franked as such; and except also seeds, cuttings, roots, and scions, the weight of the packages Weight of packof which may be fixed by regulation of the Postmaster General. SEC. 43. And be it further enacted, That all publishers of periodicals, magazines, and newspapers which shall not exceed six- except, &c. teen ounces in weight shall be allowed to interchange their publications reciprocally free of postage: Provided, That such interchange shall be confined to a single copy of each publication.

SEC. 44. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force and take effect from and after the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three.

Limit in weight.

Except, &c.

ages of seeds.

Publishers may interchange free,

When act to take effect.

SEC. 45. And be it further enacted, That all acts and parts of Repealing clause. acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Approved March 3, 1863.

CHAPTER LXXII.

March 3, 1863.

ing corporations.

AN ACT to disapprove of the twenty-sixth section of the act of the legislative assembly of the Territory of Nevada, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That sec- Law of Nevada tion twenty-six of an act of the legislative assembly of the Ter- Territory respectritory of Nevada, entitled "An act to provide for the formation of disapproved. corporations for certain purposes," approved December twenty, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, said section being as follows: "Section 26. All corporations heretofore formed under the provisions of acts of incorporation in other States or Territories, and holding or owning property within this Territory of such character as specified in section first of this act, and managed by a board or boards of trustees or directors, and having their principal place of business outside the limits of this Territory, are hereby required to remove their places of business, principal offices, books, and papers, heretofore kept, or necessary for the transaction of

&c.

Corporations in

such business, to some point designated by said corporation, within the limits of this Territory, within six months after the passage of this act, or otherwise such corporation or corporations shall be desregarded in law as a corporation, and the corporators or stockholders thereof be treated as tenants in common, or joint owners of such property so owned or held within this Territory. Any corporation, by filing and recording its certificate of incorporation, or a certified copy thereof, with the secretary of the Territory, and with the clerk of the county in which such corporation may locate as the principal place of business, and fully complying with all the provisions of this act, shall be deemed sufficient to entitle such corporation to all the rights and privileges under the provisions of this act," be and the same is hereby disapproved, and the same is hereby annulled and made void.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all incorporated comNevada may sue, panies, duly organized within any State or Territory of the United States, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in the several courts of the Territory of Nevada, anything in the laws of said Territory to the contrary notwithstanding. Approved March 3, 1863.

March 3, 1863.

the Treasury may

$300,000,000

this year, $600,000,000

the next.

Bonds.

and

CHAPTER LXXIII.

AN ACT to provide ways and means for the support of the government.

may

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of The Secretary of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the borrow not over Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to for borrow, from time to time, on the credit of the United States, a for sum not exceeding three hundred millions of dollars for the current fiscal year, and six hundred millions for the next fiscal year, and to issue therefor coupon or registered bonds, payable at the pleasure of the government after such periods as may be fixed by the Secretary, not less than ten nor more than forty years from Denominations. date, in coin, and of such denominations not less than fifty dollars Interest on, rate as he of, and payable in deem expedient, bearing interest at a rate not exceedcoin. ing six per centum per annum, payable on bonds not exceeding one hundred dollars, annually, and on all other bonds semi-annually, Bonds may be in coin; and he may, in his discretion, dispose of such bonds at any time, upon such terms as he may deem most advisable, for lawful money of the United States, or for any of the certificates of indebtedness or deposit that may at any time be unpaid, or for any of the treasury notes heretofore issued or which may be issued under the provisions of this act. And all the bonds and treasury notes or United States notes issued under the provisions of this To be exempt act shall be exempt from taxation by or under State or municipal authorities: Provided, That there shall be outstanding of bonds ing not to exceed treasury notes, and United States notes, at any time, issued under the provisions of this act, no greater amount altogether than the sum of nine hundred millions of dollars.

disposed of.

from taxation.

Am't outstand

$900,000,000.

Secretary may

issue $400,000,000

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the in treasury notes. Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue, on the credit of the United States, four hundred millions of dollars in treasury

and rate of in

Interest payable in lawful money.

notes, payable at the pleasure of the United States, or at such When payable, time or times not exceeding three years from date as may be found terest. most beneficial to the public interests, and bearing interest at a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, payable at periods expressed on the face of said treasury notes; and the interest on the said treasury notes and on certificates of indebtedness and deposit hereafter issued shall be paid in lawful money. The treasury notes thus issued shall be of such denomination as the Secretary may direct, not less than ten dollars, and may be disposed of on of. the best terms that can be obtained, or may be paid to any creditor of the United States willing to receive the same at par. And How a legal ten

Denominations, and how disposed

For what exchangeable.

Other notes may

said treasury notes may be made a legal tender to the same extent der, &c. as United States notes, for their face value excluding interest; or they may be made exchangable, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, by the holder thereof at the Treasury in the city of Washington, or at the office of any assistant treasurer or depositary designated for that purpose, for United States notes equal in amount to the treasury notes offered for exchange, together with the interest accrued and due thereon at the date of interest payment next preceding such exchange. And in lieu of any amount of said treasury notes thus exchanged, be issued for those or redeemed, or paid at maturity, the Secretary may issue an equal exchanged. amount of other treasury notes; and the treasury notes so exchanged, redeemed, or paid shall be cancelled and destroyed as the Secretary may direct. In order to secure certain and prompt exchanges of United of States notes for treasury notes when required, as above provided, the Secretary shall have power to issue United States notes to the amount of one hundred and fifty millions of dollars, which may be used, if necessary, for such exchanges; but no part of the United States notes authorized by this section shall be issued for, or applied to, any other purposes than said exchanges; and whenever any amount shall have been so issued and applied the same shall be replaced as soon as practi- placed.' cable from the sales of treasury notes for United States notes.

$150,000,000 of

notes may be issu

ed for exchanges.

When issued and applied, how re

The Secretary, if necessary to pay

the army, &c., may issue $150,000.000 interest.

in notes without

Denominations.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, if required by the exigencies of the public service, for the payment of the army and navy, and other creditors of the government, to issue on the credit of the United States the sum of one hundred and fifty millions of dollars of United States notes, including the amount of such notes heretofore authorized by the joint resolution approved January seventeen, eighteen hundred and sixtythree, in such form as he may deem expedient, not bearing interest, payable to bearer, and of such denominations, not less than one dollar, as he may prescribe, which notes so issued shall be lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public Legal tender, exand private, within the United States, except for duties on imports and interest on the public debt; and any of the said notes, when returned to the treasury, may be reissued from time to time as the exigencies of the public service may require. And in lieu of any notes cancelled. of said notes, or any other United States notes, returned to the treasury, and cancelled or destroyed, there may be issued equal amounts of United States notes, such as are authorized by this And so much of the act to authorize the issue of United States notes, and for other purposes, approved February twenty- ch. 142, (ante, pp.

act.

cept for duties and

interest.

Reissue.

Issues in lieu of

Repeal of part of 1862, ch. 33, 1862,