NEWSPAPERS

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  NEWSPAPERS. Papers for conveying news, printed and distributed periodically. 
       2. To encourage their circulation the act of congress of March 3, 1825, 
  3 Story's L. U. S. 1994, enacts, Sec. 29. That every printer of newspapers 
  may rend one paper to each and every other printer of newspapers within the 
  United States, free of postage, under such regulations as the postmaster 
  general shall provide. 


       3.-Sec. 30. That all newspapers conveyed in the mail shall be under 
  cover, open at one end, and charged with the postage of one cent each, for 
  any distance not more than one hundred miles, and one and a half cents for 
  any greater distance: Provided That the postage of a single newspaper, from 
  any one place to another, in the same state, shall not exceed one cent, and 
  the  postmaster general shall require those who receive newspapers by post, 
  to pay always the amount of one quarter's postage in advance; and should the 
  publisher of any newspaper, after being three mouths previously notified 
  that his paper is not taken out of the office, to which it is sent for 
  delivery, continue to forward such paper in the mail, the postmaster to 
  whose office such paper is sent, may dispose of the same for the postage, 
  unless the publisher shall pay it. If any person employed in any department 
  of the post office, shall improperly detain, delay, embezzle, or destroy any 
  newspaper, or shall permit any other person to do the like, or shall open or 
  permit any other to open, any mail, or packet of newspapers, not directed to 
  the office where he is employed, such offender shall, on conviction thereof, 
  forfeit a sum, not exceeding fifty dollars, for every such offence. And if 
  any other person shall open any mail or packet of newspapers, or shall 
  embezzle or destroy the same, not being directed to such person, or not 
  being authorized to receive or open the same, such offender shall, on the 
  conviction thereof, pay a sum not exceeding twenty dollars for every such 
  offence. And if any person shall take, or steal, any packet, bag, or mail of 
  newspapers, from, or out of any post office, or from any person having 
  custody thereof, such person shall, on conviction, be imprisoned, not 
  exceeding three mouths, for every, such offence, to be kept at hard labor 
  during the period of such imprisonment. If any person shall enclose or 
  conceal a letter, or other thing, or any memorandum in writing, in a 
  newspaper, pamphlet, or magazine, or in any package of newspapers, 
  pamphlets, or magazines, or make any writing or memorandum thereon, which he 
  shall have delivered into any post office, or to any person for that 
  purpose, in order that the same may be carried by post, free of letter 
  postage, he shall forfeit the sum of five dollars for every such offence; 
  and the letter, newspaper, package, memorandum, or other thing, shall not be 
  delivered to the person to whom it is directed, until the amount of single 
  letter postage is paid for each article of which the package is composed. No 
  newspapers shall be received by the postmasters, to be conveyed by post, 
  unless they are sufficiently dried and enclosed in proper wrappers, on 
  which, besides the direction, shall be noted the number of papers which are 
  enclosed for subscribers, and the number for printers: Provided, That the 
  number need hot be endorsed, if the publisher shall agree to furnish the 
  postmaster, at the close of each quarter, a certified statement of the 
  number of papers sent in the mail, chargeable with postage. The postmaster 
  general, in any contract he may enter into for the conveyance of the mail, 
  may authorize the person with whom such contract is to be made, to carry 
  newspapers, magazines, and pamphlets, other than those conveyed in the mail: 
  Provided, That no preference shall be given to the publisher of one 
  newspaper over that of another, in the same place. When the mode of 
  conveyance, and size of the mail, will admit of it, such magazines and 
  pamphlets as are published periodically, may be transported in the mail, to 
  subscribers, at one and a half cents a sheet, for any distance riot 
  exceeding one hundred miles, and two and a half cents for any greater 
  distance. And such magazines and pamphlets as are not published 
  periodically, if sent in the mail, shall be charged with a postage of four 
  cents on each sheet, for any distance not exceeding one hundred miles, and 
  six cents for any greater distance. By the act of March 3, 1851, c. 20, s. 
  2, it is enacted, That all newspapers not exceeding three ounces in weight 
  sent from the office of publication to actual and bona fide subscribers, 
  shall be charged with postage is follows, to wit weekly only, within the 
  county where published, free; for any distance not exceeding fifty miles out 
  of the county, five cents per quarter; exceeding fifty, and not exceeding 
  three hundred miles, ten cents per quarter; exceeding three hundred and not 
  exceeding one thousand miles, fifteen cents per quarter; exceeding one 
  thousand and not exceeding two thousand miles, twenty cents per quarter 
  exceeding two thousand and not exceeding four thousand, twenty-five cents 
  per quarter; exceeding four thousand miles, thirty cents per quarter; 
  newspapers published monthly, sent to actual and bona fide subscribers, one-
  fourth the foregoing rates; published semi-monthly, one-half the foregoing 
  rates; semi-weekly, double those rates; tri-weekly, treble those rates; and 
  oftener than tri-weekly, five times those rates; Provided, That newspapers 
  not containing over three hundred square inches may be transmitted at one-
  fourth the above rates. See, as to other newspapers, Postage.