Chapter 234. authorizing the registration of census mail-matter
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CHAP. 234.— An Act authorizing the registration of census mail-matter.May 21, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Eleventh Census.Mail-matter. That all mail-matter. of whatever class, relative to the census and addressed to the Census Office, to the Superintendent of Census, his chief clerk, supervisors, or enumerators, and indorsed “Official business, Department Free transportation by registered mail.of the Interior.
Census Office, Registered,” shall be transported free by registered mail; and if any person shall make use of any such mark of registration to avoid the payment of any registry fee on Private use of registration mark, a misdemeanor.Penalty.his private letter, package, or other matter in the mail, the person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine of three hundred dollars, to be prosecuted in any court of competent jurisdiction Approved, May 21, 1890.