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316 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 386, 387. 1896. Third A¤¤i¤*¤¤¢ OFFICE or run rmnn Assrsrxncr POSTMASTEB-GENERAL. Postmnster·General. S¢··¤1>¤· For manufacture of adhesive postage and special-delivery stamps, one hundred and. sixty thousand dollars. Di¤¤ri¤¤¤¤¤·· For rent of office for use of the agent of the Post·Office Department to supervise the distribution of stamps of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, six hundred dollars. For pay of agents and assistants to distribute stamps, and expenses of agency, twelve thousand dollars. “S¢=¤¤¤1>¤<¤ ¤¤v•=¤<>1>¤¤. For manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers, °' eight hundred and thirty thousand dollars. D"““‘““‘”'· For pay of agent and assistants to distribute stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers, and expenses of agency, seventeen thousand eight hundred dollars. PMN ¤¤¤i¤· For manufacture of postal cards, one hundred and eighty-six thou- _ sand dollars. m°°'“’““°”- For pay of agent and assistants to distribute postal cards, and expenses of agency, seven thousand eight hundred dollars. 0¤i¤i¤¤· ew-· ¤¤v¤1— For registered package, tag, official, and dead-letter envelopes, one °p°°" hundred and five thousand dollars. s"*P·°‘°··’°“°"- For ship, steamboat, and way letters, one thousand dollars.

  • ’**¤**¤g*¤’¤“¤·°*¤· For engraving, printing, and binding drafts and warrants, one thousand dollars.

Mi»v<>¤¤¤¤<>¤¤- For miscellaneous items, five hundred dollars. 1,0*; 0F2t0F. OF THE FOURTH ASSISTANT P0sT1tAsTEB·GENERAL. mm d¤pr¤d¤ti•>¤¤· For mail depredations and post-office inspectors, three hundred thousand dollars. R¤*¤·*·-·¤=· For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and conviction of postonice bnrglars, robbers, and highway mail robbers, twenty-five thousand dollars. mum annum, The Postmaster~General shall for the iiscal year eighteen hundred ”‘°”“"’°°"""*°"" and ninety-eight, and annually thereafter, submit in the annual estimates to Congress estimates in detail for all expenses of the money- order branch of the postal service. mt{’£gg,gfgf;” *° That if the revenues of the Post—()fIice Department shall be insufficient to meet the appropriations by this Act, a sum equal to such denciency of the revenues of said Department is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply said deficiencies in the revenues for the Post-Ollice Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. Approved, June 9, 1896. J““° °· l8?Yj CHAP. 387.-An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska." _ _ _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representices of the United A§;,LQ‘f°" """°"""· States 0_/'America in Congress assembled, That the Act approved March '\‘··i._l25. p. ww. second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and entitled “An Act to ° “°"' " ‘ provide for the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska/’ is hereby _ _ amended and reenacted as follows: N ,‘:;’,j‘f,,",Q‘;§§,j,1§,§',$,,};’, *‘Th at the erection of dams, barricades, fish wheels, fences, or any such

?{·)·;tr;`~i‘ salmon pm- fixed or stationary obstructions in any part of the rivers or streams of

’ Alaska, or to fish for or catch salmon or salmon trout in any manner or by any means with the purpose or result of preventing or impeding the ascent of salmon to their spawning ground, is declared to be unlawful, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to remove such obstructions and to establish and enforce such regulations and surveillance as may be necessary to insure that this prohibition and all other provisions of law relating to the salmon fisheries of Alaska are strictly complied with.