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Public Law 75–141
Relative to the classification of bills or statements of account produced by photo-static or mechanical process.
Approved April 27, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
Relative to the classification of bills or statements of account produced by photo-static or mechanical process.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 206 (a)
Postal Service, mail matter.
Postage rate, bills or statements produced by mechanical process.
of the Act entitled “An Act reclassifying the salaries of postmasters and employees of the Postal Service, readjusting their salaries and compensation on an equitable basis, increasing postal rates to provide for such readjustment, and for other purposes”, approved February 28, 1925, as amended (43 Stat. 1053; U. S. C., 1934 edition, title 39, sec. 235), is hereby amended by inserting before the period at the end of such section a comma and the following: “but bills or statements of account produced by any photographic or mechanical process shall not be accepted as mail matter of the third class unless presented in quantities of twenty or more identical copies. When such bills or statements are not identical or are presented in quantities of less than twenty identical copies, they shall be subject to postage at the first-class rate”.
Approved, April 27, 1937.