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INLAND MAILS: PRINTED PAPERS. 9
Notices of assessments Quotations for goods
Notices relating to the registration of Receipts for goods or money
voters Share transfer notices
Orders for goods or work Statements of account
Price lists Tenders for goods or advertisements
Prices current Way bills
2. Legal Papers:
Affidavits Powers of attorney
Agreements Proposals and policies of insurance and
Briefs from solicitor to counsel formal papers necessarily incidental
Certificates to insurance
Deeds Proxy papers
Licences Testimonials
Orders of court Voting papers.
Copies of the foregoing documents are also admissible. Nothing may appear in the
documents in writing which does not form a necessary part of them.
3. Circulars:
(a) Ordinary type characters, that is notices and letters printed, handstamped,
hektographed or cyclostyled in characters not resembling those of the typewriter.
Nothing may appear in writing in the document except:
The names, addresses, and descriptions of parties;
Dates, hours, and particulars of times;
The particulars of goods, and of sums of money;
The mode of consignment or delivery of goods or money;
The terms on which business is transacted;
Index or reference numbers and letters;
Corrections of errors in print;
The place, character, and objects of meeting or appointments;
Formulae of courtesy or of a conventional character not exceeding five words or
initials.
(b) Im itation type characters, that is, circulars wholly or partly printed in imita­
tion of typewriting, or reproduced from a typewritten original by a mechanical process or
ordinarily used to produce a number of identical copies. Carbon copies are included in
this category.
These documents are admissible at the Inland printed paper rate only:
If they are handed in at a Post Office,
If special attention is drawn to the fact that they are printed or reproduced in imitation
of typewriting,
If at least twenty packets each containing one copy or more are posted at the same
time.
The circulars must be securely tied in bundles of convenient size with the addresses
all faced one way. They will be liable to detention or to surcharge if subsequently found
to infringe any of the regulations of the printed paper rate.
4. Printed Christm as, New Year, Easter, birthday, picture, greeting and
visiting cards:
Nothing may appear in writing except:
Date of sending and names and addresses of sender and addressee;
Formulae of courtesy or of a conventional character not exceeding five words or initials.
For example Kind Regards, Best Wishes, and other greetings, and so on, not conveying
any specific information or making an enquiry or request, are admissible. Phrases such
as Arrived Safely, See you on Monday, and so on, are not admissible.
5. M anuscripts for press and printed proofs including information for inser­
tion in directories and similar publications with corrections and instructions.
Any writing not forming part of the document itself must refer solely to the arrange­
ment or correction of the type or to the execution of the work.
6. Educational exercises and exam ination papers with comments, cor­
rections, and instructions.
Any writing not forming part of the document itself must refer solely to the subject
matter of the exercise or to the questions put or to the answers thereto.