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Public Law 86–644

To clarify and make uniform certain provisions of law relating to special postage rates for educational, cultural, and library materials, and for other purposes.

Approved July 14, 1960

Statutory text

AN ACT

To clarify and make uniform certain provisions of law relating to special postage rates for educational, cultural, and library materials, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That

(a)

section

Postal Service.

Special postage rates.

204(d) of the Postal Rate Revision and Federal Employees Salary Act of 1948, as amended (72 Stat. 140; 39 U.S.C. 292a(d)), is amended—

(1)

by inserting “except that the rates now or hereafter prescribed for third- or fourth-class matter shall apply in every case where such rate is lower than the rate prescribed in this subsection,” immediately following “for each additional pound or fraction thereof,”;

(2)

by striking out in clause (1) thereof “for students’ notations” and inserting in lieu thereof “for notations”;

(3)

by striking out in clause (5) thereof “phonograph recordings” and inserting in lieu thereof “sound recordings”; and

(4)

by striking out the word “and” immediately before “(6)” and by striking out the period at the end thereof and inserting in lieu thereof a semicolon and the following: “and (7) printed educational reference charts, permanently processed for preservation.”

(b)

Section 204(e) (1) of such Act, as amended (72 Stat. 140, 141; 39 U.S.C. 292a (e)(1)), is amended—

(1)

by inserting “(including cooperative processing by libraries)” immediately following “loaned or exchanged”; and

(2)

by striking out “(i) books consisting wholly of reading matter or scholarly bibliography or reading matter with incidental blank spaces for students’ notations and containing no advertising matter other than incidental announcements of books; (ii) printed music, whether in bound form or in sheet form; (iii) bound volumes of academic theses in typewritten or other duplicated form and bound volumes of periodicals, (iv) phonograph recordings; and (v) other library materials in printed, duplicated, or photographic form or in the form of unpublished manuscripts.” and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “(i) books consisting wholly of reading matter or scholarly bibliography or reading matter with incidental blank spaces for notations and containing no advertising matter other than incidental announcements of books; (ii) printed music, whether in bound form or in sheet form; (iii) bound volumes of academic theses in typewritten or other duplicated form; (iv) periodicals, whether bound or unbound; (v) sound recordings; and (vi) other library materials in printed, duplicated, or photographic form or in the form of unpublished manuscripts.”.

(c)

Section 204(e)(2) of such Act, as amended (72 Stat. 141; 39 U.S.C. 292a(e) (2)), is amended—

(1)

by inserting “scientific or mathematical kits, instruments, or other devices” immediately following “sound recordings,”; and

(2)

by striking out “and catalogs of such materials” and inserting in lieu thereof “catalogs of such materials, and guides or scripts prepared solely for use with such materials”.

Approved July 14, 1960.

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