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And I do further proclaim and declare
that, from and after the 1st day of January,
1852, the following regulations in lieu
thereof for the conveyance and postage of
letters shall be in operation throughout the
said Islands of New Zealand:—

LETTERS AND PACKETS.

A colonial rate of Postage shall be charged
and paid on all letters passing through any
Post Office in the colony of New Zealand,
or transmitted by post therein, by weight
according to the following rate (that is to
say):—

On every letter not exceeding half an
ounce in weight—two pence.

On every letter exceeding half an ounce
in weight—then the sum of two pence for
every half ounce, or fractional part of half
an ounce, according to the weight of such
letter.

The Postage on all letters, packets, and
papers, despatched from New Zealand to
places beyond the seas shall be paid in this
colony.

All letters and papers having a Postage
stamp or stamps affixed thereto, or enclosed
in covers having a Postage stamp or stamps
affixed thereto of such form as may be pre
scribed by the Local Government, which
shall not have been used before, and which
shall be of the value or amount of the
Postage to which such letters or papers
would be respectively liable, according to
the scale hereinbefore provided, shall pass
by the Post free of Postage.

On all letters sent by Post, on being re
directed and again forwarded by the Post,
there shall be charged and paid a new and
distinct rate of Postage for the redirection,
in addition to all other rates of Postage
payable thereon, according to the scale and
rate of Postage hereinbefore mentioned.

No letter or packet exceeding sixteen
ounces in weight shall be forwarded by the
Post, except Deeds, Law Proceedings, and
Law Papers, and also except letters to and
from places beyond the seas, and letters to
and from the Governor, letters on the pub
lic service, or to and from any of the Gov
ernment offices or departments, and except
also Printed Books, Magazines, Reviews,
and Pamphlets.

PRINTED BOOKS.

Printed Books, Magazines, Reviews, or
Pamphlets, (whether British, Colonial, or
Foreign), Deeds, Law Proceedings, and
Law Papers, shall be permitted to be sent
through the several Post Offices to the
United Kingdom, at the following rates of
Postage:—

For a single volume, or packet,
not exceeding ½lb. in weight ... 0 0 6

For a single volume, or packet,
exceeding ½lb., and not exceed
ing 1lb. ... 0 1 0

For a single volume, or packet,
exceeding 1lb., and not exceed
ing 2lbs. ... 0 2 0

For a single volume, or packet,
exceeding 2lbs., and not ex
ceeding 3lbs. ... 0 3 0

And so on, increasing 1s. for every addi
tional pound, or fraction of a pound.

The charge shall be the same whether
the Books, &c., be posted or delivered at
the Post, or whether they be posted or de
livered at any place in the interior of the
colony.

To prevent the inconvenience which might
ensue from a large arrival of Books, &c., by
the same mail, the Colonial Postmaster will
hereby authorized, in cases of necessity, to
delay the despatch of such Books, &c., from
the interior, until the despatch of the mail
next after that by which they would in the
usual course be sent, or at their option, for
a period not exceeding ten days.

No such Book or packet shall be sent by
any other than a public means of expense of
transit Postage on the department.

One third of the total charge will be
considered as paid on the British Island
Rate, one third for the Sea Rate, and
the remaining third for the Colonial Inland
Rate.

Printed Books, &c., (except Deeds, Law
Proceedings, and Law Papers,) sent through
the Post under the Regulations here im
posed, shall be subject in all respects to the
same Regulations as are hereinafter made
with respect to Newspapers.

NEWSPAPERS.

Printed Newspapers shall be conveyed by
the Post free of Postage, provided they be
sent without a cover, or in a cover open at
the sides, and there be no writing thereon,
or upon the cover of the same, except the
name and address of the person to whom
sent, and that the print of which be enclosed
in or with any such paper. And every
paper or packet, which shall be contrary to
any respect to the conditions hereby requi
red to be observed, shall be charged with
treble the duty of Postage to which it would
have been liable as a letter.

Printed Prices Current and Commercial
Lists, not exceeding two ounces in weight,
shall be forwarded through the Post under
the same regulations and privileges as
Newspapers.

ARMY AND NAVY LETTERS.

Non-Commissioned Officers, Captains,
Stewards, Seamen, and Soldiers, may send
And what is referred to after I amended the law
Lives with respect to certain homestead thereof