Note 52 — XIII. Special Agents.

We were told by an officer of the department that the meaning of this section of the postal law is not made sufficiently clear, but it is generally understood by those who have control of an office. This is not the case; for we know one large newspaper (weekly) proprietor who, taking the section literally, sends a very large edition of his paper through the Philadelphia post-office to all his subscribers, and defends himself under this order from the general post-office:— “Weekly newspapers (one copy only) sent by the publisher to actual subscribers within the county where printed and published, free.”