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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 42 STAT. · May 11, 1922 · Chapter 186

Chapter 186. Authorizing the Postmaster General to grant permission to use special canceling stamps or postmarking dies

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CHAP. 186.— An Act Authorizing the Postmaster General to grant permission to use special canceling stamps or postmarking dies. May 11, 1922.[[H. R. 10941](/us/bill/67/hr/10941).][[Public, No. 218](/us/pl/67/218).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Postmaster General Postal service.Special canceling stamps permitted.be, and he is hereby, authorized, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to grant permission for the use in first and second class post offices of special canceling stamps or postmarking dies for advertising purposes in the following cases only:
First, where the Conditions.event to be advertised is for some national purpose for which Congress has made an appropriation; second, where the event to be advertised is of general public interest and importance and is to endure for a definite period of time and is not to be conducted for private gain or profit: *Provided*, That such permit shall not be for a longer period *Provisos*.Duration of use limited.than six months and the duration of the event to be advertised: *Provided further*, That nothing in this Act shall be construed to authoize No expenditure for dies, etc.the expenditure of any postal funds or appropriation either for the purchase of special canceling stamps or postmarking dies or for adapting canceling machines for the use of such stamps or dies or for installing the same, but all expense shall be prepaid by the permittee. 540 Sec. 2.Revocation reserved.
That any permission granted under this Act is hereby revocable in the event the Government shall find it expedient or necessary to use special canceling stamps or postmarking dies for its own purposes. Approved, May 11, 1922.
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