The annexed notice is found in _The Royal Gazette_ for August 3rd, 1859:
“POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, FREDERICTON, _6th July, 1859_.
“Part 9, Section 2, of Post Office Regulations is repealed, and the following adopted; viz.:
“Printed Books, Periodical Publications or Pamphlets, under sixteen ounces in weight, can be forwarded by Post in New Brunswick at the rate of one half penny per ounce.
“Printed Music will be allowed to pass through Post in New Brunswick under the same Regulations as Pamphlets.
“Printed Circulars, Catalogues, Hand Bills, and Prices Current posted in New Brunswick will be liable to a rate of one half penny each, subject to the following Regulations; viz.:
“Each must be in a Cover unsealed, or if sealed, open at the end or side; the word ‘Circular,’ ‘Catalogue,’ ‘Hand Bill,’ or ‘Price Current,’ as the case may be, must be written or printed on the face of the Cover; and each Package must weigh under half an ounce.
“Any of the above mentioned, however, coming into New Brunswick by Post from the United States, Canada, Nova Scotia, or Prince Edward Island, will be subject to one half penny Postage, to be collected on delivery, and must be taxed accordingly.
The postage on the above must, I think, have been prepaid in money until the issue of the One Cent stamp in May, 1860; for it is difficult to see how a halfpenny value could have been improvised out of the three stamps then current.
From the following notice, taken from _The Royal Gazette_ for January 19th, 1859, it will be seen New Brunswick was one of the first, perhaps the earliest colony, to start a Parcels Post.
“From the 1st February next a PARCEL, not weighing over Two Pounds, will be conveyed by mail between any of the Post-offices in New Brunswick. They must be prepaid at the following rates by Postage Stamps only:
For any weight not exceeding 1 lb. 1s. 3d. For any weight over 1 lb., and not exceeding 2 lbs. 2s. 6d.
“(Signed) CHARLES CONNELL, _Postmaster-General_.
“GENERAL POST OFFICE, FREDERICTON, _January 12th, 1859_.”
I have now exhausted all the new information I have collected concerning the Postage Stamps of New Brunswick, and I have no further particulars to give you about the stamps issued in 1860, beyond what we find mentioned further on in the Society’s list; neither can I add anything to the history of the Five Cents “Connell” stamp so carefully related in the paper reproduced from _The Halifax Philatelist_. The stamps of this Colony became obsolete on the 27th of May, 1867, upon the formation of the Dominion of Canada.