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364 THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. 1. Ch. 164. 1858. June 14, 1858. CHAP. CLXIV.-An Ac! making Appropriations for the ;l’ram{ortaiiml of the United _'"”`—"" States Mail by Ocean Steamers and otherwise, during the Fzsml ear mdzng the thirtieth of Junehmm hundred and ji]? mine. n GW .7 Be it enacted tg the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Appropriations. States of America in Oongress assembled, That the following sums be, aémd the same are herehy, appropriated; no bg; paid out none? t 0 treasury not otherwnso appropmate , or e year en mg e u· 18 of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine: Mails from New For transportation of the mails from New York to Liverpool, and

3:5 °° L“'°"' back, three hundred and forty-six thousand Eve hundred dollars; and it is

Proviqg when hereby provided that there be paid to the Post-Oflice Department out of gx COMM hm sa1d approprxauon such sums as may be required to procure the transpor- ' tation of the mails from New York to Liverpool, and back, on such days as the Collins line may fail to take them Hom New York.

 New York to For transportation of the mails from New York to New Orleans,

g§X’ggQ“·‘” md Charleston, Savannah, Havana, and Chagres, and back, two hundred and ' sixty-one thousand dollars.

 Pmgamato Cal- For transportation of the mails from Panama to California and Oregon,

g3:?" aud 0N' and back, three hundred and twenty-eight thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. Sam Fnmoisoo For transportation of the mails between San Francisco, California, and ’{{}£ShO¥g,“P‘”· Olympia, Washingmn Territory, one hundred and twenty-two thousand Ifive hundred dollars.

 0% Pugot’s For transportation of the mails on Puget’s Sound, twenty-two thousand

mmfour hundred dollars. Pagment to P. Sue. 2. And be it further enacted, That there be paid to the Post- 3} aiQ"‘{.;‘;§f;s Office Department, out of the appropriation of three hundred and forty- of the gowns six thousand flue hundred dollars granted by the first section of the act of 1¤¤¤ _ lv l>¤¤g"¤¤'§¤ third March, mghteen hundred and fifty-seven, “ for transportation of the gQ'°:Li§"lin€m mails from New York to Liverpool, and back," the sum of sixteen thoufails subsequenu sand seven hundred and fifty-seven dollars and seventy cents, for Evo out- ]?';; ;" ‘l°· ward trips from New York to Liverpool, to wit: on fourteenth February §1 5 · °h‘ u3· and eleventh April, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and thirteenth ebruary, thxrtcenth March, and tenth Apml, eighteen hundred and fifty-exght, Am°’ p' 24S' when the Collins line failed to perform service ; and that the further sum of thirty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be paid to the Post-Office Department, out of the appropriation aforesaid, to enable the Postmaster-General to procure the transportation of the mails from New York to Liverpool, and back, on the twenty-fourth April, the eighth and twenty~seo0nd May and the fnfth and nineteenth June, eighteen hundred and ffty-eight, if the Collins line should fail to perform service on those days. P. O. Depa.rb· SEO. 3. And be it furthen enacted, That the following sums be, and “‘°“”· the same are hereby, appropmated, tion the servme of the Post-Oince Department for the year ending the thirtxeth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, out of any money in the treasury arising from tho revenues of said department, in conformity to the act. of the second of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six: S°I:3‘;n?°£; vm For transportation of the mails from New York, by Southampton or &c., to rllw:J. Cowes, to Havre, two hundred and thirty thousand dollars.

Chm·leston and For transportation of the mails between Charleston and Havana, fifty
    • 2***- thousand dollars.

P£m“S °f For transportation of the mails ao;-oss the Isthmus of Panama, one hun- `dred thousand dollars. P. M. G s not to cohhrxlg S2:0. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be be lawful for the 2;H';“;'>’*“§ f Postmaster-General to make any steamship or other new contract for car- ,,,01.9 Jia; nhs); ryiug the mails on the sea for a longer period than two years, nor for any 5'5‘M$· Noi; for other compensation than the sea. and mland postages OI] the maxls so transo mr a an thefezl) alnd in- ported' an postagos.