376 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. OH. 96. 1881, 1878, ch. 259, further amended by the act of June seventeenth,_eighteen hundred and Sm-l2°»14°- seventy-eight, entitled “An act making appropriations for the service of the Post—Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes." Items. For necessary and special facilities on trunk lines, four hundred and twenty-Eve thousand dollars. _ For inland transportation by steamboat routes, nine hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. _ _ _ For inland transportation by star routes, seven million nine hundred thousand dollars. , For compensation to railway post-office clerks, one million five hun- ` dred and fifty thousand dollars. For route-agents, one million two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For mail—route messengers, two hundred and thirty-five thousand do lars. For local agents, one hundred and nfty thousand dollars. For mailmessengers, seven hundred and seventy-five thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For mail locks and keys, twentynve thousand dollars. For mail-bags and mail-bag catchers, two hundred thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars. Third Assistant OFFIGE OF THE THIRD Assrsrnrrr 1)OSTMASTER-GENERAL.—FOI P. M. General. manufacture of adhesive postage-stamps, of official stamps, and of news- P09m20·¤mYY\P$· pgpgp and periodical stamps, OI)0 hlll'ldI`€d 21116. HV8 J[hOl1S?TUd d0H9#Y`S? ['rovigd Provided, That the condition attached to the item of appropriation for the “manufacture of adhesive postage-stamps," and so forth, in the 1879, en. 180, first section of the “Act making appropriations for the service of the Stat., 20, 357. Post-Ofiice Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eight- [m“‘“· een hundred and eighty, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, which condition is in the following words, namely, “If said stamps can be furnished by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing of the Treasury Department at less than the same now cost, the work of printing the same shall be given to said human Qvhen no; (in violation of existing contraots," be, and the same is ere y, repeae . For pay of agent and assistants to distribute stamps, and expenses of the agency, eight thousand one hundred dollars. stamped envel- FOP manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper-wrappers, HVG open. hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. — For pay of agent and assistants to distribute stamped envelopes and newspaper-wrappers, and expenses of agency, sixteen thousand dollars. rewu mas, Fgrdnaanufaoture of postal cards, two hundred and ninety-six thousan dollars. For pay of agent and assistants to distribute postal cards, and expenses of agency, seven thousand three hundred dollars. E”V°l°P°°» °*°· For registered·package envelopes, locks and seals, and for office 0I1·
- ’§;<g>g%];1;<Si for deadletter envelopes, one hundred and twenty 5h0H-
Ship letters. d05g5S8h1p, steamboat, and way letters, four thousand ive hHHdI°€·d Drafts and war- For engraving, printing, and binding drafts and warrants 0116 i3h0U· ¤‘¤¤*$· sand nve hundred dollars. ’ Miscellaneous. For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars. _’1‘ranspertataen OFFICE on SUPERINTENDENT OF Fomrren MAILS.—FOP transpor- °* f°*`¤1S¤ m9»1l¤· lation of fbreign mails, two hundred and twenty-tive thousand d0H6—1‘S¤ Proviao. Branded, That the Postmaster-General is authorized to pay to the colonies of New Zealand and New South Wales so much of the cost of the overland transportation of the British closed mails to and from Australia as he may deem just, not to exceed one-half of said cost, and the sum of forty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for that purpose.
