Public Notice

Tax of letters

The public is advised that from 1st January 1849, the fee letters based upon the distance traveled is deleted and replaced by a fixed and uniform fee of 20 cents for every letter circulating on the inside, where the weight n 'not exceed 7 grams and a half regardless of the distance traveled in all areas of France, Corsica and Algeria. Above the weight of 7 and a half grams to 15 grams, letters will be taxed at 40 cents, above 15 grams and 100 grams, the tax is invariably set at a franc. Letters or packages that exceed 100 grams weight bear an additional tax of one franc for each 100 grams or fractions exceeding 100 grams. The decimation of sea, which is now applied to letters from France to Corsica and Algeria, is deleted. The fee for these letters is the same as letters circulating in the interior of France. Tax letters to non-commissioned officers, soldiers and sailors present under arms and flags is naturally reduced by 25 cents to 20 cents. These letters fall within the law. Nothing changed with the current tax letters of a city for the same city or a municipality for the same municipality. The letters will be loaded or double-port, ie 40 cents per single letter for the whole of France. They will be stamped in advance. The public is free to empower or not to empower ordinary letters, but to facilitate the use of postage and citizens to avoid travel to which the current postage forces, the Administration will sell at a price of 20 cents, 40 cents and a frank, stamps or stamps affixed with a letter just to make the postage in all areas of the Republic. Each citizen can then, through these stamps stamps, franking letters without having to pay the port money in post offices. These stamps are a small engraving representing a head of Liberty, printed in red ink, blue or black on a paper which the setback is coated with a thin layer of gum. The price of each stamp is distinguished by the color of ink. To liberate a letter, just moisten the side of the stamp is coated with gum, and apply it to the address of the letter that you can then discard the box with confidence and without further formality. If the sender out of his letter, the stamp representing a tax less than that associated with the weight of the letter, the Authority will apply the wrong letter stamped an extra fee to be paid in cash by the recipient. Letters weighing more than 100 grams s'affranchissant also using stamps, applying all stamps (fee of one franc) that the letter contains a weight of 100 grams or portions of 100 grams. The letters charged or recommended will be submitted to post offices to be subject to various formalities that their shipping method involves. The postage on these letters will be made to the office by the staff positions that will receive and who will apply himself stamps intended to operate the postage. The sale of stamps will take place in all post offices of France, Corsica and Algeria, through staff positions at all levels, and only by officials of posts. The factors responsible for the distribution of letters should be provided with a number of postage stamps of the three colors, so that all citizens, both in cities than in rural communes, to anywhere at any time to obtained easily and without additional costs of any kind. The postage stamps will be sold to the public, either in post offices, or by the factors on tour, at nominal fees they represent, ie 20 cents, 40 cents and a Frenchman. The state shall bear all costs of manufacturing, transportation and distribution.