THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 146. 1853. 255 From Potosi, via Rockville, Ellenb0ro’, Clifton, Mimin, and Linden, to Mineral Point, in Iowa county. From Warsaxv to Shawno, on Wolfe River. From Prairie du Chien, via Lacosse, Lewis’s Mills, Douglas Mills, Eau Gallet’s Mills, Rush River Settlement, Prescott, and Point Douglas, to Saint Paul’s, Minnesota Territory. From Cassville, via Beetown, Lancaster, New California, and Mifflin, to Mineral Point, in Iowa county. From La Crosse, in the county of La Crosse, to Onalaska. From Prairie du Chien, via Boydstown, Richland Creek, and Richmond, to Muscoda. From Portage City, in Columbia county, via Beaver Creek, Crooked Lake, Buena Vista, and Plover, to Stevens’s Point, in Portage county. Lo. Oregon Territory.-From Salem, via Doke’s Ferry, to Lafayette. Oregon Terri- The mail route from Panama to Astoria is hereby extended to Fort my- Stilacoom and Olympias, on Puget’s Sound. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Postmaster-General be Mail between authorized and required to establish a mail between Bainbridge andK¤g11bFgliZ°%ha¤d Apalachicola. P all Sec. 3. And be dt farther enacted, That all railroads and parts of An ,·,n,·0,,d_, railroads which are now or hereafter may be in operation, be, and the m¤<i¢1><>S¤ r¤¤dS· same are hereby, declared to be post-roads; and the Postmaster-General may contract for carrying the mails thereon according to existing laws. Sec. 4. And be it farther enacted, That the Auditor of the Treasury Compensation for the Post-Oliice Department be, and he is hereby, authorized to allow ot: postmaster at the postmaster at Richmond, Virginia, and the postmaster at Cleveland, glgzgggg *“‘d Ohio, the same commission on all mailable matter distributed at their ` respective offices, as is allowed by law to the postmasters of the other distributing offices; such allowance to date from the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That hereafter, as the office of president bq Assistant Postmaster-General, or either of them, shall be vacated, the %PP¤i¤* the AS- appointment of his successor shall be made by the President of the Uni- 2;.lj€;n§§?°’l` ted States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That from and after the first of compensation April next, in place of the compensation now allowed deputy postmas- °f *;:1*****5* P°¤*· ters, the Postmaster—General be, and is hereby, authorized to allow them majngp M2 commissions at the following rates, on the postage collected at their re- 1854: cli. 61,. spective offices, in each quarter of the year, and in due proportion for any period less than a quarter, viz.: on any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, fifty per cent., but any postmaster at whose office the mail is to arrive regularly between the hours of nine o’clock at night and five o’clock in the morning, may be allowed sixty per cent. on the first hundred dollars ; on every sum over and above one hundred dollars, but not exceeding four hundred dollars, forty per cent.; on every sum over and above four hundred dollars, but not exceeding twenty-four hundred dollars, thirty-five per cent.; on every sum exceeding twenty-four hundred dollars, fifteeu per cent. And on the amount of postages on letters and packages received at a distributing office for distribution, the postmaster at such distributing office may be allowed ten per cent. Every postmaster whose compensation shall not exceed five hundred dollars in one quarter, shall be allowed one cent for every free letter delivered out of his office, excepting such as are for the postmaster himseli But the special allowance now made by law to the postmaster at New- Orleans and Washington city shall not otherwise be either increased or diminished. Each postmaster who shall be required to keep a register of the arrival and departure of the mails, shall be allowed ten cents for each monthly return which be makes to the
