The following are the latest corrections of the rates of Canada Postage:

Letter Postage.

Rates within Dominion of Canada and United States.

and so on. 3 cents being charged for every additional ½ oz. or fraction of ½ oz.

All letters must be prepaid by stamp.

All letters for the United states must be fully paid by stamp and vice versa. Letters mailed in the United States for Canada, insufficiently paid, are sent to the Dead letter office.

Letters posted unpaid sent to Dead Letter office, unless for the United Kingdom and one or two other exceptions, for which enquire at the Post Office. Letters mailed for the United Kingdom unpaid will be charged double postage

On affixing postage stamps always ascertain the exact weight. It the half ounce be exceeded even by the turning of the balance double postage will be charged.

Letters misdirected will be forwarded from one Post Office to another, without additional postage.

Letters or parcels containing contraband or dutiable goods will be detained.

Letters posted insufficiently paid, but with one 3 cent stamp attached, will be forwarded, and the deficient postage charged double.

Neither British, United States nor any Foreign Stamps can be affixed to Letters mailed in Canada.

Drop Letters.

1 cent per ½ oz., in all cases prepaid by stamp.

Postage Cards.

1 cent to Canada and United States.

United States post cards cannot be mailed in Canada; and Canadian post cards cannot be mailed in the United States.

Post Cards to the United Kingdom, 2 cents.

Stamped Envelopes.

In other words, all lesser numbers than [unclear: 100] must be sold at the nearest proportional rate to the price per hundred. Additional stamps may be added to the stamped envelopes; but under no circumstances can the stamp of an envelope be cut out and used as a postage stamp.

Registration Fees.

• 2 cents prepaid by stamp, for places in Canada.
• 5 cents prepaid by stamp, for places in United states.
• 8 cents prepaid by stamp, for places in United Kingdom

Registered Stamps cannot be used for prepayment of letter postage. They can only be used for payment of registration fees.

Canada and Newfoundland.

Letters 6 cents per ½ oz. Registration same as in Dominion.

St. Pierre and Miquelon.

Letters same as within Dominion, but subject to charge on delivery. Registration same as in Dominion.

Great Britain and Ireland.

Letters by Canadian Mail 5 cents per ½ oz.

Letters New York Mail 5 cents per ½ oz.

Postal Cards 2 cents.

All Letters and postal matter desired to be sent by steamers from New York, must be viâ New York.

All Letters sent to the United Kingdom should be prepaid, or they will be charged double postage, or double any portion of the amount unpaid.

Franking and Free Mail Matter.

All mail matter sent by or to the Governor-General or his Secretary or Office at Ottawa, is free.

All mall matter sent to or by Ministers or officers of Government Departments at Ottawa, is free

All mail matter sent to or by the Senate or House of Commons is free.

Books from the Library of Parliament are free of postage sent to or from Members of either House.

Prepayment Is not required on letters sent to any of the Imperial Departments of State

Members of the Senate or House of Commons may mail Parliamentary documents free during the recess; and Mem- page 159 bers of the Local Legislatures have the same privilege as respects documents printed by order of such Legislatures.

Petitions and addresses to the Local Legislatures may be sent free.

Miscellaneous Matter.

Between places within Canada and the United States.

Pamphlets, occasional publications, printed circulars, rices current, handbills, book and newspaper manuscript, printer's proofs, maps, prints, drawings, engravings, lithographs, photographs not on glass, or in cases containing glass, music written or printed, documents wholly or partly printed or written, such as deeds, insurance policies, militia and school returns, or other documents of like nature, may be sent through the post office at the rate of 1 cent per 4oz. prepaid by stamps. All such documents must be left open at the sides, so as to admit of easy examination by the Postal officers. If enclosed in sealed envelopes, notched at the ends or sides or with the corners cut, full postal rates will be charged.

If such packages contain any letter or communication to serve the purpose of a letter, full postal rates will be charged.

No book or packet of printed matter must exceed 5 lbs. in weight 24 inches in length, 12 inches in breadth or depth.

Seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots, scions or grafts 1 cent per 4 oz. prepaid by postage stamp Limit of weight 24 oz.

Printed or lithographed circulars, prices current, hand bills, and other matter of a like character, 1 cent per 4 oz. prepaid by stamps.

Miscellaneous matter as above described cannot, under the present postal regulations, be sent to the United Kingdom as such, but the greater part of such matter may be forwarded to the United Kingdom by Book Post.

Book Post.

Pattern and Sample Post.

Between places in the Dominion of Canada and the United States.

Patterns or samples of merchandise not exceeding 24 oz. in weight, may be sent prepaid by postage stamp at the rate of 1 cent per 4 oz. Goods sent for sale or in execution of an order however small or articles sent from one private individual to another, are not admissible, this post being restricted to bona fide atterns and samples. If the package is insufficiently paid, it will be rated with the deficient postage, and a fine of 5 cents in addition.

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Packages can be registered for 5 cents extra.

Parcel Post.

Parcels closed at the ends and sides not exceeding 5 lbs. in weight, may be mailed to places within the Dominion of Canada, except those in B. Columbia and Manitoba viâ the United States, in which case the parcels cannot exceed in weight the postal union limit, namely 2 lbs 3 oz.

They must be prepaid by stamps. No letters must be enclosed, and no liquid or explosive substance likely to injure the mails, size not to exceed two feel in length and one in breadth and thickness

The words "By Parcel Post" must be plainly written over the address. The name and address of the sender should be written on the parcel, and in case of failure to deliver from any cause, the parcel will be sent back to him from the Dead Letter Office on payment of a second parcel rate. If the parcel is Insufficiently prepaid, the amount deficient will be rated unpaid with a fine of 12½ cents. Parcel may be registered for a fee of 5 cents prepaid by stamp.

Parcels may contain books, daguerreotypes, photographs, written or printed matter, deeds, returns, legal documents, &c., not being strictly letters.

Enclosing a letter or letters, or any writing intended to serve as a letter in a parcel, is a misdemeanor.

If it is ascertained that a parcel posted contains a letter or letters, the stamps affixed will be cancelled and parcel charged full letter rates.

Report of Operations of the Post Office of Dominion.

In the number of letters passing through the post in 1877, there was a slight decrease as compared with 1876. In all other postal operations there was an increase. Three-fourths of the distance from the Atlantic to the Pacific is now served by the Canadian Mails. The two gaps are between Thunder Bay and Fort Francis and between Fort Edmonton and the post routes of British Columbia. The following table shows the extent of the Postal service of Canada for 1877, at January 1st.

By an arrangement concluded with the Post Office of Germany, Closed mails have for the past year been exchanged between Canada and Germany, the rates and regulations being those of the Postal Union. The postage on Newfoundland letters has been reduced from 6 cents to 5 and the charge on registered letters to and from the United Kingdom from 8 cents to 5. The landing the mails at Rimouski in summer and Halifax in winter proved a very satisfactory arrangement. The No. of Letters conveyed between Canada and the United Kingdom in the year ending 30th Nov., 1877, was [unclear: 2,28,748;] of Newspapers [unclear: 2,744,04;] of Books, 32,370; and of samples, 36,344. These figures do not include Letters, &c., sent from United States through Canada.

The Free Delivery System shows a large increase. The weekly average of letters delivered in December, 1876, was 120,796, and in 1877, 49,468, an increase of 23½ per cent The free delivery of newspapers increased from [unclear: 163,32,] to 202,268. The No. of carriers was increased by 14. making a total of 144 employed in the service at the close of the year 1877. The revenue derived from the "City Letters" delivered by the carriers is estimated at $26,000.

There was no material variation in the Railway Mail Service. There was an increase of 90½ in the No. of miles of Railway on which mails were carried, but only 6 miles increase of daily service, 16,512½ miles of railway being passed over dally.

Registered Letters.

Out of the 1,842,000 registered letters which passed through the mails in 1877,64 miscarried from various causes, and 72 were stated not to have the amounts when received said to have been enclosed.

Dead Letters.

563,484 letters, circulars and post cards were received at the Dead letter Office, 58,811 were returned from Great Britain, U.S., and other places as having failed in delivery. 5,888 of these dead letters were registered, and in the unregistered. 3,929 contained valuable inclosures. 131,485 letters were returned to the writers, but only 99,970 were taken out by the persons to whom they were so returned.

Postage Stamps. Post Bands and Post Cards.

The following Tables show the number of these issued during the fiscal year page 161 1876-77, together with the value of the issue by Provinces:—

Money Orders.

The following Table shows the Money Order business for the fiscal year:—

Money Order Business for Year Ended:30th June, 1877.

Post Office Savings Banks.

9 additional Post Offices were made savings bank Offices during the year, and 5 were closed. On 1st January, 1878, 282 were in operation. During the 3 years ending 30th June, 1877, the withdrawals from these Banks exceeded the deposits, but during the last 6 mos of 1877, the reverse was the case, there having been an increase in the number of depositors of 793, and in the amt. of deposits of 113,917.

The following table shows the business for the Fiscal Year:

P.O. Savings Bank, year ending June 30,'77.

Revenue and Expenditure.

There was an increase in the Revenue of the Department ever that of the preceding Fiscal Year, mainly derived from the sale of Postage stamps, of $10,248. There were increased charges for Postal Service for the year

The Revenue and Expenditure by Provinces is shown by the following Table:

Postal Revenue and Expenditure.

Rates of Postage Chargeable in Canada on Letters, News Papers. &c., to the United Kingdom, British Colonies and Foreign Countries.

Rates of Postage Chargeable in Canada on Letters, Newspapers, &c.-