FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. H. Ch. 37. 1868. 55 CHAP. XXXVII.—An Act making iiipproprakxtions for the Service of the Post- Qyice Murcl180, 1868· Qepartment during the fiscal Year en ing June thirlieth, eighteen hundred and sixty- fi"""" mne. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That; the following sums be, and API>\‘¤P*’l¤l<>¤ the same are hereby, appropriated for the service of the Post-Oliice De- §°;,§,?Q;`§gf’° paritment for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty· nine, out of any moneys in the treasury arising from the revenues of the 1886, ch. 270. said department, in conformity to the act of the second of July, eighteen V0}- V~ P· 8°· hundred and thirty-six: For inland mail transportation, including pay of route agents, postal {wand mnj]s_ clerks, and mail messengers, ten million five hundred and twenty-six thousand dollars. For foreign mail transportation, four hundred and twenty thousand dol- Foreign mails. Iars, under the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and Sixty- V%865,¤.Fh· 8264 five, entitled “An act relating to the postal laws." 0xm' p' ` For ship, steamboat, and way letters, eight thousand dollars. Sbip,&c.1etter¤. For compensation to postmasters, four million two hundred and fifty posmmers, thousand dollars. ¤1¤rP5¤,¤¤d1¤¤¢¤r For clerks for posboffices, two million dollars. °°m°"‘ For payments to letter-carriers, seven hundred and hfty thousand d0l· lars. For wrapping paper, seventy thousand dollars. §’aper and For twine, fifteen thousand dollars. *W*¤°· For letter balances, three thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to blank agents and assistants, eight thousand Eve Blank agents. hundred dollars. For office furniture, three thousand dollars. For advertising, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this Advertising. sum shall be paid to any papers published in the District of Columbia ex- P*°ViS°· cept for advertising mail routes in Virginia and Maryland. For postage stamps and stamped envelopes, four hundred and fifty Postage thousand dollars. Stamps md °”‘ For mail depredations and special agents, one hundred thousand dol- v°§g’Q°§{M ]a;•$_ agents. For mail bags and mail—bag catchers, one hundred and fifteen thousand Mail bags, dollars_ locks, and keys. For mail locks, `keys, and stamps, thirty thousand dollars. For payment of balances to foreign countries, three hundred and fifty Foreign bal, thousand dollars. ”·"°°*· For miscellaneous payments, including allowances to postmasters for rent, light, fuel, fixtures, stationery, envelopes, and so forth, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following sums, or so much Steamship thereof as may be necessary, bfé, 3i1d the Same are hereby, appropriated $°"l°°· for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: For steamship service between San Francisco, Japan, and China, five Japan md hundred thousand dollars. CMH8- For steamship service between the United States and Brazil, one hun- Brazil. clred and fifty thousand dollars. For steamship service between San Francisco and the Sandwich Sandwich Islands, seventy-five thousand dollars. ISl°·“d$· For preparing and publishing post-route maps, twenty thousand dol- Post-route lars. m“P“· Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if the revenues of the Post-_ Appropriation Oliiee Department shall be insufheient to meet the appropriations of this gcf;1;’£““° ‘“ *1* V net, then the sum of eight hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid
