Note 110 — ONE CENT POSTAGE, WITH ABOLITION OF FRANKING.

For example, on letters of one half-ounce weight or under, the rate for distances not exceeding five hundred miles was made five cents, and for greater distances ten cents.—Act to prescribe the Rates of Postage, February 23, 1861; Statute I. Ch. 13: Statutes at Large of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America, (Richmond, 1864,) p. 34.