Page 18 - Jamaica PO Guide 1934

14 INLAND l\1Ali.S: OFFICIAL COIIRESPONDENCE.

SpC<"WJ Regulaliom.
The following are permitted to puss through the Post Office free of postagc:-
1. Printed notices ("consignee's undelivered goods"), posted in open official envelope;;
by railway station agents, and bearing the stamp "Jamaica Government Railway" or
'• ./am:tica Railway Compnny."
2. Letters headed " lnfect,ious DiseaMes Notifieatioo," bearing the signature of the
mcdicnl practitioner and oddt·csscd to a :1\!ledical Officer of Hcnlth or the Contrnl Board
of Hcnlth or a. Local Board of Health.
3. Packets addressed to Mrs. Bourne, Medical Office, Kingston.
4. Parcels containing artificial limbs sent by ex-service men of the B.W.I.R., addressed
to the military authorities at Up-Park-Camp or to the Technical School, Hanover
Street, Kingston.
5. Rending matter for the blind printed in Braille or similur script, posted by the
Territorial Commander of the Salvation Army, on the following conditions:-
(n) The cover of each such packet to bear the signature and designation of the
Territorial Commander. ·
(b) To be endorsed "Literature for the Blind."
(c) E 'Ch packet of such litem tu re to be returned to I<ingston to bear a label addressed
"The Territorinl Commander, Salvation Army, Kingston," duly signed and
endorsed as above.
LeUcrs addressed to places abroad camwt be franked but .should be prepaid.
Rulu re(Jarding Frankin(J of Official Corre&TJOildellce.
I. The envelope or cover of the ofliciu I letter or other packet may be "franked" under
authority of His Excellency the Governor in either of the following ways-(a) By the
impression of an approved official frank stamp; (b) by the signature and official designa-
tion of the Head of the Department, or other duly authorised officer or functioWlry on
tho lower left hand corner of tho cn\'clope or cm-er. The envelope or co,·cr must be
superscribed with the words "On His ~lajesty's Service."
2. The envelope or cover must be addressed to t.he head of the department or to a
public officer or functionary who is entitled by the authority of His Excellency the
Governor to receive official correspondence free of charge for postage.
3. No public officer will be permitted to make use of any stamp for franking letters
or to frank letters without the authority of the Governor.
4. Heads of Departments and all postmasters must exercise vigilance to p1·evont any abuse
of the franking privilege, and any evasion or attempt to abuse tho privilege, and any de-
partu!c from the rules must be reporled, with lull particulars, to tho Colonial Secretary or to
the Postmaster for Jamaica.
5. The franking of envelopes, etc., either by means of the frnnking stamp or by signature,
is strictly forbidden, unless the envelopes contain at the time of· franking the official cor-
respondence or matt.er to be transmitted through the post, subject to the following
exception, namely-
That any written or printed matter properly issued in a franked C1welop<: or coverin~
for circulation among members of a board or any body of indi\'iduals, and for ultimate
return to the office of issue, may be passed from one member of such board or body to
another in an envelope or covering provided for the purpose and duly franked in advance
by a duly authorised officer.
N.B.- All registered letters, posted by the pltblic and not franked as above d~scribed
add1·~.~scd to the officials named above in both lists A. a.nd B, must be pl'epu:id with the
reoistmlion fee of two pence, with the exception of registered leU111·s addressed to the M wwger
of the Government Savings Bank, Collectors and As.~istant Collector8 of 1'axes, and Chair-
man, Banana Industry .4 id Board which are wholly postage free.