Volume 13
Public Law 38–IV
to amend the Law prescribing the Articles to be admitted into the Mails of the United States.
Approved January 22, 1864
Statutory text
An Act
to amend the Law prescribing the Articles to be admitted into the Mails of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That articles of clothing, being manufactured of wool, cotton, or linen, and comprised in a package not exceeding two pounds in weight, addressed to any non-commissioned officer or private serving in the armies of the United States, may be transmitted
Rate of postage; to be prepaid.
in the mails of the United States at the rate of eight cents, to be in all cases prepaid, for every four ounces, or any fraction thereof, subject to such regulations as the Postmaster-General may prescribe.
Approved, .