[Sidenote: Definition.]
Periodical Publications are publications issued at regular intervals,
but less frequently than once per week.
[Sidenote: Rate to Canada and U. States.]
Periodical Publications can be transmitted by post to any part of
Canada and the United States at the following rates:--
For every periodical publication weighing not more
than 3 oz. in weight .................................. 1 cent.
Over 3oz. in weight .................................. 4 cents. 4 cents.
[Sidenote: Pre-pay'mt]
The above rates must invariably be pre-paid by postage stamps.
[Sidenote: Sent from publication office.]
If pre-paid by postage stamps and sent from the office of publication,
periodicals published in Canada weighing over 3 oz. pass for two cents
each.
[Sidenote: From United States.]
Periodical publications received from the United States are liable to
the rates above mentioned, viz.: If not exceeding 3 oz. 1 cent; if
exceeding 3 oz. 4 cents.
[Sidenote: If posted by booksellers or news agents.]
Canadian Booksellers and News Agents may post British, American or
Provincial periodicals for distribution to regular subscribers unpaid.
If sent unpaid they will, when exceeding the weight of 3 oz., be subject
to 4 cents.
[Sidenote: Small periodicals posted by booksellers and news agents.]
Canadian Booksellers and News Agents may also post for transmission by
mail in Canada small periodicals, whether Canadian, British or United
States, weighing less than 1 oz., such as the Children's Paper, Child's
Paper, The Play Hour, The Carrier Dove, The Sabbath School Visitor, The
Evangelizer, The Gospel Message, The Good News, and others of a like
description, in packages to one address, at the rate of 5 cents per
pound, or fraction of a pound bulk weight, provided that the said News
Agents and Booksellers pre-pay such packages by postage stamps. This
must not be understood as imposing a charge on Canadian periodicals
entitled to pass free.
[Sidenote: Periodicals exempt from postage.]
Periodicals printed in Canada other than newspapers when specially
devoted to education, meaning the instruction of youth, (both religious
and general), to agriculture, to temperance, or to any branch of
science, and addressed directly from the office of publication to be
transmitted to any post-office in Canada, are conveyed by mail free of
charge. Such periodicals must not contain general news or advertisements
or they forfeit their claim to exemption.
A periodical devoted to education to pass free must be either strictly
scholastic in its subject matter, or manifestly adapted and intended for
juvenile as distinguished from adult instruction. It is in this primary
sense that the word Education, whether religious or secular, is
understood to be used. Religious publications are not as a class
entitled to exemption from charge. The law exempts only those which come
within the foregoing definitions.
[Sidenote: U.S. periodicals not exempt.]
No United States periodical of any kind or description can, upon any
ground, claim exemption from Canadian postage.
[Sidenote: Returned periodicals.]
Parcels of unbound periodicals may be returned by a subscriber to the
office of publication at the rate of two cents per 8 oz. or fraction of
8 oz.
[Sidenote: Conditions]
Periodicals to pass at the above rates must be put up in covers open at
the ends or sides, and if these regulations are not strictly complied
with, or if such periodicals are found to contain any writing other than
the address, they are liable to full letter rates of postage.
[Sidenote: Not to exceed 48 oz.]
No packet of periodicals can be forwarded through the post if exceeding
the weight of 48 oz.
[Sidenote: Bound periodicals.]
Bound volumes of any periodical published in Canada may be forwarded at
the rates and under the conditions described under the article <i>Book
Post</i>.
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