FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 126. 1869. 323 CHAP. CXXVI. -——An ·Act making Appropriations for the Service of the Pos£·O_§Fce March 3, 1869. Departmenz during the fiscal Year ending une thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy. """"t Be it enacted 63; the Senate and Abuse or Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and 1, A}’P*`°PYl¤tl<>¤ the same are hereby, appropriated for the service of the Post·Oflice ];);plI$;EQg?°° Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and 1836, ch. 270. seventy, out of any moneys in the treasury arising from the revenues of V"l· "· P· 8°· the said department, in conformity to the act of the second of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six: For inland mail transportation, including pay of route agents, postal Inland mails. clerks, and mail messengers, thirteen million thirty-seven thousand six hundred and Gfty-three dollars: Provided, That no part of said sum Pmviso. shall be paid for inland transportation between Fort Abercrombie and Helena. For foreign mail transportation, four hundred and fifty thousand Foreign mails. dollars. _ _ For ship, steamboat, and way letters, eight thousand dollars. mls.? M' For compensation to postmasters, four million five hundred and forty- Postmnsters, six thousand dollars. fgsgisv xlfirq For clerks for post-ofiices, two million dollars. `C " For payments to letter-carriers, one million dollars. For wrapping paper, fifty thousand dollars. papa,. and For twine, twenty thousand dollars. twine. For letter balances, four thousand dollars. For compensation to blank agents and assistants, eight thousand Blank ¤g¢¤fS· dollars. For office furniture, two thousand five hundred dollars. For advertising, forty thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of f§dV€'*lSl¤€€· this sum shall be paid to any papers published in the District of C0lum— r°ws°° bla for advertising mail routes, except in Virginia and Maryland. Pomga For postage stamps and stamped envelopes, five hundred thousand stamps und dollars. Tired ¤¤¤·¤- For detecting and preventing mail depredations and for special agents, l§1ggc;,‘;,,gmS_ one hundred thousand dollars; and no greater sum shall be paid special agents than is hereby provided. _ For ma.il—bags, and mail-bag catchers, one hundred and twenty thou- 10;*l{***l‘bé‘f» _ sand a011m. . S ““ °’“‘ For mail-locks, keys, and stamps, thirty-seven thousand dollars. _ For miscellaneous payments, including payment of balances to foreign !mE;’;°‘€“ l”‘l‘ countries, eight hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For preparing and publishing post-route maps, sixteen thousand P<>sf—r¤ul¤ dollars. maps' For retransfer to money-order account, being money transferred by M<>¤6y-¤r<l¤r‘ postmasters and deposited in the treasury as postage receipts, one million °`°°°um' dollars. Sec. 2. And be izfurther enacted, That the following sums, or so much r})°*g;*;f;n"P‘ thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated P P ` for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, viz: segvazwlgecn For stenmship service between San Francisco, Japan, and China, five Sm, F,.mK.m.0, hundred thousand dollars. J¤R=*¤» *****1 For steamship service between the United States and Brazil, one hun- Clfillnslrmed drcd and fifty thousand dollars. States and For steamship service between San Francisco and the Sandwich Bmzila __ _ Islands sevent r-five thousand dollars. Sim llnmfco f ) and the band For supplying deficiency in the revenues of the Post-Ofiicc Depart- wich Island;. ment for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fo£;2°j°“°;?70 _ _ year . seventy, live million seven hundred and forty thousand dollars. Approved, March 3, 1869.
