Chapter 415. To authorize the dispatch from the mailing post office of metered permit matter of the first class, prepaid at least 2 cents but not fully prepaid, and to authorize the acceptance of third-class matter without stamps affixed in such quantities as may be prescribed
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CHAP. 415.— An Act To authorize the dispatch from the mailing post office of metered permit matter of the first class, prepaid at least 2 cents but not fully prepaid, and to authorize the acceptance of third-class matter without stamps affixed in such quantities as may be prescribed. June 9, 1930.[[S. 3272](/us/bill/71/s/3272).][[Public, No. 318](/us/pl/71/318).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Postal Service.Vol. 41. p. 633.[U.
S. C., p. 1263](/us/usc/p1263). That section 5 of the Act of April 24, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes, page 583; Thirty-ninth United States Code, section 273), entitled “An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for other purposes,” is hereby amended to read as follows: " First-class mail.Acceptance of prepaid matter without stamps.“That the Postmaster General, under such regulations as he may prescribe for the collection of such postage, is hereby authorized to accept for delivery and deliver, without postage stamps affixed *Provisos*.Delivery of metered matter with insufficient payment.Vol. 20, p. 361.thereto, mail matter of the first class on which the postage has been fully prepaid at the rate provided by law: *Provided*, That such first-class matter on which the postage is paid in connection with a metered device set by the postmaster for a given number of impressions paid for at the time of setting and which automatically locks upon the exhaustion of such impressions may, if through inadvertence it is not fully prepaid but is prepaid at least 2 cents, be accorded the same treatment as is provided for such short-paid first-class matterTypewriting classed as handwriting. mailed with postage stamps affixed: *Provided further*, That typewriting shall continue to be classed as handwriting as provided by Third-class, metered permit matter.the Postal Laws and Regulations: *Provided further*, That metered permit matter of the third class, except bulk mailings of such matter Vol. 45, p. 941.[U.
S. C., Supp. IV, p. 547](/us/usc/p547).under the provisions of section 6 of the Act of May 29, 1928 (Forty-fifth Statutes, page 941; Thirty-ninth United States Code, Supplement III, section 291), may be mailed in such quantities as the Postmaster General may prescribe.” " Approved, June 9, 1930.