FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 92. 1883. 455 For the purchase, by special contract, of raw-hide packing-trunks for the transportation of registered mail, nine thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars. Orman on run Tmnn Assrsrimr Posrmsrnn-GENERAL.-For Postage-stamps. manufacture of adhesive postage-stamps and of newspaper and periodical stamps, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; and upon all matter of the hrst class, as defined by chapter one hundred and eighty of 20 Stat., 357. the laws of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled an act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Oilice Department for the tiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes, and by that act declared subject to postage at the rate of three cents for each half ounce Letter postage or traction thereof, postage shall be charged, on and after the first "°d“°°d *° lfwlq. day of October A. D. eighteen hundred and eighty-th1‘ee at the rate of gggfcs Og °i§.3ct?0u two cents for each half ounce or fraction thereof; and all acts, so far th.,,.,.,; vs they tix a different rate of postage than herein provided upon such first-class matter, are, to that extent, hereby repealed. _ For pay of agent and assistants to distribute stamps, and expenses of Distribution of the agency, eight thousand one hundred dollars ¤*=¤¤P¤· . For manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper-wrappers and Stamped enve1- - letter-sheets, six hundred and thirty-two thousand dollars. °P°°· For pay of agent and assistants, to distribute stamped envelopes, newspaper-wrappers, and letter-sheets, and expenses of agency, sixteen thousand dollars. For manufacture of postal cards, two hundred and fifty-three thou- P•>¤*¤·1<=¤¤i¤· sand dollars. For pay of agent and assistants to distribute postal cards, and expenses of agency, seven thousand three hundred dollars. For registered-package envelopes, locks and seals, and for office en- E¤v¤i<>D¤¤J<>¢k¤» velopes, and for dead-letter envelopes, one hundred and forty thousand “°“1“· °*°· dollars. For ship, steamboat, and way letters, one thousand five hundred dol- Ship letters, etc. lars For engraving, printing, and binding drahs and warrants, two thou- Drafts and warsand dollars. '““°" For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars. - Miscellaneous. OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF FOREIGN MAH.S.—Fof transpor- Transportation tation of foreign mails, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. _ °*f°¥°*S¤ ******1**- For balances due foreign countries, sixty thousand dollars, including Balances duo · the United States? portion of the expenses of the International Bureau fm18D °°'“m'*°°· of the Universal Postal Union Convention. Sec. 2. That if the revenue of the Post-Office Department shall be Deficienoyin insufficient to meet the appropriations made by this act, a sum equal ¤¤V°¤¤°¤· _ _ to such deficiency of the revenues of said department 18 hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply the said deficiencies in the revenue of the 1’0st— Omoo Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four. _. - _ _ Sec. 3. That the Postmaster-General is hereby directed to make a iipvwhuitgfllvsgrgf thorough investigation into the railway mail service of the United States, ,;*3 Sq mmol__ and report to Congress, in December next, with the data upon which it ized_ is based, a more complete system of gauging the rates oi pay for carry- ing the mails on railroad routes if pract1cable in order to secure the better protection of the interests of the government, and the adjustment of rates of compensation for the service required; and he is authorised _ _ to expend, not to exceed ten thousand dollars, out of the appropriation A1>pr¤v¤¤~¤¤¤· for the transportation of mails, for actual and necessary expenses involved, including such extra compensation as he may deem gust and reasonable to officers of the department for specific services rendered which sum shall be immediately available. Approved, March 3, 1883.
