Volume 29
Public Law 54–370
To regulate mail matter of the fourth class.
Approved June 8, 1896
Statutory text
An Act
To regulate mail matter of the fourth class.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
Postal service.
Fourth-class matter defined.
Vol. 20, p. 360.
States of America in Congress assembled,
That mailable matter of the fourth class shall embrace all matter not embraced in the first, second, or third class which is not in its form or nature liable to destroy, deface, or otherwise damage the contents of the mail bag or harm the person of anyone engaged in the postal service, and is not above the weight
Limit of weight.
provided by law, which is hereby declared to be not exceeding four
Exceptions.
Congressional documents.
Printed or written official matter.
pounds for each package thereof, except in case of single books weighing in excess of that amount, and except for books and documents published or circulated by order of Congress, or printed or written official matter emanating from any of the Departments of the Government or from the Smithsonian Institution, or which is not declared
Obscene, etc.
R. S., sec. 3893. p. 758.
nonmailable under the provisions of section thirty-eight hundred and ninety-three of the Revised Statutes as amended by the Act of July twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, or matter appertaining to
Lotteries, etc.
lotteries, gift concerts, or fraudulent schemes or devices.
Approved, .