Volume 11
Public Law 34–II
providing for the compulsory Prepayment of Postage on all transient printed Matter.
Approved January 2, 1857
Statutory text
An Act
providing for the compulsory Prepayment of Postage on all transient printed Matter.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the provision in the act approved August thirty, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, entitled “An act to amend the act entitled an act to reduce and modify the rates of postage in the United States, and for other purposes, passed March three, eighteen
Vol. x. p. 38.
hundred and fifty-one,” permitting transient printed matter to be sent through the mail of the United States without prepayment of postage, be and the same is hereby repealed. And the postage on all such transient matter shall be prepaid by stamps or otherwise, as the Postmaster General may direct.
Approved, .