Chapter XIII: Section 4: Asia, Africa and Australasia

Each section is divided into groups, the groups of Part 1, Section 1 are now ready and are as follows:

Group 1. United States (including Confederate issues).
Group 2. Mexico and Central America.
Group 3. U. S. of Columbia and states.
Group 4. Other South American countries.

The price of each group is 10c; a new one will be published every month.

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Subscriptions received $1.00 per 10 parts, until the number 500 is reached subscribers will receive the first numbers.

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This is a blank album manufactured expressly for the purpose.

Good paper is used; size of pages 81/2 by 11 inches; a neat border surrounds each page and an ornamental band at top for the reception of the name of the country. Neatly printed names are provided on adhesive paper.

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One thousand lithographed stamp mounts are furnished with each album. The stamp mounts are on a new plan, a neat black border surrounds the stamp, and the mounts are provided in different sizes for the various stamps.

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=Philatelic Journal of America.=

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Reports of the proceedings of the leading American philatelic societies.

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Transcriber's Notes:

5. Obvious punctuation errors have been corrected without comment.

6. Inconsistent quote marks in cited materials have been retained.
Mismatched quotes have been repaired.

7. Inconsistent abbreviations, punctuation, character spacing, etc.,
have been made uniform.

8. Inconsistent variations of millimeter fractions, _i. e._ 1/2 (with
forward slash) and 1-2 (stacked 1 over 2), etc. have been made
consistent.

9. Right justified page numbers in the "INDEX" have been replaced by
a left justified semi-colon ";" immediately followed by the
referenced page numbers.

10. SPELLING CORRECTIONS: (#) shows number of times word was correctly
spelled in the text.

p. 47, "apperance" to "appearance" (14) (has a blurred appearance)
p. 47, "diffent" to "different" (30) (a different design)
p. 48, "Brattleborro" to "Brattleboro" (8) (of Brattleboro, Vermont)
p. 50, "seperately" to "separately" (7) (stamp separately engraved)
p. 52, "accomodation" to "accommodation" (7) (as an accommodation;)
p. 53, "impresions" to "impressions" (102) (re-impressions in red)
p. 55, "orignally" to "originally" (11) (originally ruled into spaces)
p. 64, "permiting" to "permitting" (4) (permitting to be used)
p. 78, "Terell" to "Terrell" (2) (Mr. Terrell, Third Assistant
Postmaster General)
p. 80, "Goverment" to "Government" (34) (dies by the Government)
p. 88, "Pastmaster" to "Postmaster" (200) (the Postmaster General)
p. 91, "postmater" to "postmaster" (200) (unlawful for any postmaster)
p. 92, "Priviledge" to "Privilege" (13) (the Franking Privilege)
p. 93, "lettters" to "letters" (200) (amount on letters)
p. 94, "Casellar" to "Cassilar" (2) (Toppan, Carpenter, Cassilar & Co.)
p. 104, "prolongued" to "prolonged" (3) (right side prolonged)
(this correction is noted on the publishers "Errata" page)
p. 107, "vermillion" to "vermilion" (15) (with yellowish vermilion)
p. 110, "millemetres" to "millimetres" (2) (space of two millimetres)
p. 110, "impresion" to "impression" (102) (Plate impression,)
p. 119, "runing" to "running" (5) (and running off to the right)
p. 120, "Botom" to "Bottom" (110) (LEFT. Top, Bottom)
p. 123, "newpapers" to "newspapers" (88+) (through the newspapers)
p. 124, "Immediatly" to "Immediately" (3) (Immediately after the
expiration)
p. 127, "ocre" to "ochre" (5) (5 cents, ochre, shades of brown.)
p. 129, "impresion" to "impression" (102) (Plate impression,)
p. 132, "borderded" to "bordered" (105) (bordered by a broad)
p. 140, "compossed" to "composed" (19) (composed of depressed lines)
p. 159, "ninty" to "ninety" (27) (ninety cents, Commodore)
p. 160, "posesion" to "possession" (11) (present issue, in possession)
p. 170, "vermillion" to "vermilion" (15) (7 cents, vermilion.)
p. 179, "ZEVERLY" to "ZEVELY" (2) ((Signed.) A. N. ZEVELY)
p. 180, "hurridly" to "hurriedly" (0) (hurriedly gotten up)
p. 185, "conspicious" to "conspicuous" (6) (shade lines being
conspicuous)
p. 194, "improvments" to "improvements" (5) (improvements in
machinery)
p. 197, "soild" to "solid" (60) (broad solid colored line)
p. 200, "whereever" to "wherever" (1) (wherever required)
p. 201, "beween" to "between" (117) (colored band between)
p. 207, "cirular" to "circular" (55) (From the third circular)
p. 209, "newpaper" to "newspaper" (88+) (newspaper stamps in other
countries)
p. 209, "newpapers" to "newspapers" (88+) (distribution of newspapers
and periodicals)
p. 213, "principly" to "principally" (3) (principally at Chicago)
p. 219, "horizontically" to "horizontally" (49) (horizontally and
diagonally)
p. 220, "Ninty" to "Ninety" (27) (One Dollar and Ninety-Two)
p. 224, "classs" to "class" (11) (publications of the second class)
p. 227, "reveiw" to "review" (2) (by a brief review)
p. 228, "Treasuay" to "Treasury" (16) (the Treasury may be)
p. 229, "Ano" to "Anno" (0) (Anno Domini 1873)
p. 232, "addional" to "additional" (19) (four additional denominations)
p. 232, "excercise" to "exercise" (2) (exercise its own discretion)
p. 232, "chocineal" to "cochineal" (7) (War Department, cochineal red;)
p. 245, "judisdiction" to "jurisdiction" (0) (court of competent
jurisdiction)
p. 245, "theron" to "thereon" (9) (shall be stated thereon)
p. 246, "transmision" to "transmission" (9) (for the transmission of)
p. 246, "throught" to "through" (23) (through the mails free)
p. 247, "attatchment" to "attachment" (6) (attachment of official
postage)
p. 259, "genuiness" to "genuineness" (0) (no guarantee of genuineness)
p. 271, "Newpapers" to "Newspapers" (88+) (Three Dollars, Newspapers)
p. 275, "Britian" to "Britain" (0) (Great Britain and Colonies)

11. PRINTER AND TYPOGRAPHY CORRECTIONS: Words with missing and
misprinted letters, inconsistent hyphenation, punctuation and spacing
have been corrected without comment. Additional corrections;

p. 23, removed duplicate word "the" (the distances were so great)
p. 56, removed duplicate word "the" (the lower half of a circle)
p. 59, removed duplicate "of" (I, of R. I., and S of Cents)
p. 67-68, added Footnote anchor [A] (following advertising
editorial[A]:)
p. 75, removed duplicate word "be" (shall be subject to)
p. 76, removed duplicate word "been" (to have been distributed)
p. 82, removed duplicate word "be" (shall be deemed)
p. 98, removed duplicate word "the" ((A) show the paper)
P. 104, corrected duplicate instance of D^2 f^{1 2 3 4}, to
D^1 f^{1 2 3 4}, to match established pattern of data.
p. 139, 3rd through 6th line from bottom, changed fraction from 16-2/2
to 16-1/2.
p. 151, removed duplicate "the" (upper squares at the sides)
p. 177, changed "E. M. BARBER" to "E. W. BARBER" to match all other
instances.

12. WORD VARIATIONS:

"back ground" (6), "back-ground" (5), "background" (32)
"Caracci" (1), "Carraci" (1) "Cerrachi" (2) (misspellings appear in
official documents referring to Giuseppe Ceracchi, aka Giuseppe
Cirachi, the Italian sculptor.)
"despatch" (3) and "dispatch" (9)
"enclose(ed)" (7) and "inclose" (1) (in quoted Postmaster report)
"extention" (1) (as shown in quoted postal circular)
"grayish" (1) and "greyish" (2)
"lozenge" (1) and "losenge" (1) (middle english)
"millimeter" (1) and "millimetre(s)" (1)
"preceding" (2) and "preceeding" (2)
"prepaid" (15) and "prepayed" (1) (in quoted Postmaster letter)
"Rawdon" (1) and "Rawden" (1) (part of a company name)
"salie" (1) and "sallie" (1)
"semi-circle" (1) and "semicircle" (2)
"supersede(ed)" (1) and "supercede" (1) (in quoted Postmaster report)
"Wyman" (1) and "Wymer" (1)
"Zachary" (1) (in text) and "Zackary" (1) (General Taylor, in quoted
Postmaster letter)

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