PRIVILEGE OF FRANKING. Letters and packets to and from the following officers of the government, are by law received and conveyed by post, free of postage. The president and vice-president of the United States; secretaries of state, treasury, war, and navy; attorney-general; post-mastergeneral, and assistant post-master-general; comptrollers, auditors, registrar, and solicitor of the treasury; treasurer; commissioner of the general land office; commissioners of the navy board; commissary-general; inspectors-general; quarter-master-general; paymastergeneral; superintendent of the Patent Office; speaker and clerk of the House of Representatives; president and secretary of the Senate; and any individual who shall have been, or may hereafter be, president of the United States; and each may receive newspapers by post, free of postage. Each member of the senate, and each member and delegate of the House of Representatives, may send and receive, free of postage, newspapers, letters, and packets, weighing not more than two ounces (in case of excess of weight, excess alone to be paid for), and all documents printed by order of either House, during and sixty days before and after each session of congress. Post-masters may send and receive, free of postage, letters and packets not exceeding half an ounce in weight; and they may receive one daily newspaper each, or what is equivalent thereto. Printers of newspapers may send one paper to each and every other printer of newspapers within the United States, free of postage, under such regulations as the post-master-general may provide. NEWSPAPERS IN NEW YORK. Number of newspapers published in this state, according to "Williams's New York Annual Register," in 1831, was 237; 54 in city of New York, and 185 in other parts of the state; 16 daily, and 48 avowedly anti-masonic.* NUMBER OF SHEETS ISSUED FROM THE FIFTY-FOUR PRESSES IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. Copyright is secured in the United States for fourteen years, by depositing and recording the title of any work, map, chart, &c. at the office of the clerk of the district; and can be renewed by the author, his executors or assigns, at the end of that term, for a further period of fourteen years.-Vide "Act for the Encouragement of Learning." Judge Story's Statutes of the United States. *This has now become a party watch-word, but originated in a just feeling of detestation at a murderous outrage committed by some free-masons a few years ago. 2 D Number of Bishops in the United States, and their Residences, or One Archbishop, nine Bishops, and two Coadjutors. Do. THE END. |