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FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. HI. Cris. 140, 144, 145. 1895. 693 For manufacture of postal cards, one hundred and eighty-six thou- PMN ¤-¤i¤· sand dollars. . For pay of agent and assistants to distribute postal cards, and I""’“"*°*°¤- expenses of agency, seven thousand eight hundred dollars. For registered package, tag, official, and dead-letter envelopes, one 0¤¤i·l· M-- ¤¤·¤1· hundred and seven thousand dollars. °p°" d Kor ship, steamboat, and way letters, one thousand five hundred $***1*- °'°·· l°****•- o ars. · For engraving, printing, and binding drafts and warrants, two thou- P=i¤¤¤s» Me-. sand dollars. °"°" For miscellaneous items, five hundred dollars. usernames. ormun or rmt nounsé! Assrsrazwr Posrxssrna-GENERAL. Pggggg; For mail depredations and postoffice inspectors, three hundred thou- ¥•¤•l·1>¤¤•**··¤•- sand dollars: Provided, That not exceeding five thousand dollars of P~vi•¤- this amount maybe expended for fees to United States attorneys, mar- ,,c§'_,°°g·m*],'f*• °¤ °*· shals, clerks of courts, and special counsel necessarily employed in ` prosecuting civil suits instituted by the Auditor for the Post-Oihce Department, through the Solicitor of the Treasury, against the sureties on the omcial bonds of late postmasters, as provided for by section two F-S-· M- M 1>·¢¤- hundred and ninety-two, Revised Statutes of the United States. For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and conviction of R°""'“ post-oflice burglars and robbers, twenty-five thousand dollars. Sec. 2. That if the revenues of the Post·0tlice Department shall be :_gg··,vg¤·*!···· ¢•• insunicient to meet the appropriations made by this Act, a sum equal m ° ° °°°1°°' to such deticiency of the revenues of said Department is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply said deficiencies in the revenues for the Post- Cilice Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. Approved, February 28, 1895. CHAP. 144.-An Act To authorize the appointment of women as public school March 1. 1m. trustees in the District of Columbia. —·**;· Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioners of the _District of cum- District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized to appoint "'$;,0mu mu, ba women as members of the board of trustees of the public schools of rriwusmuu. the District of Columbia, and for this purpose the number of trustees $‘$‘f'§'{}‘,Y{°,;f°" of said board shall be increased from nine to eleven. Approved, March 1, 1895. CHAP. 145.-*-An Act To provide for the appointment of additional judges of the March 1. 1805. United States court in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes. -·—···——;* Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the territory known as mum rn-riewy. the Indian Territory, now within the jurisdiction of the United States ¤_,’§g:_°2g$¤l•¥ dkconrt in said Territory, is hereby divided into three judicial districts, ra•,p.s•¤Z to be known as the northern, central, and southern districts, and at least two terms of the United States court in the Indian Territory shall be held each year at each place of holding court in each district at such regular times as the judge for such district shall fix and determine. The northern district shall consist of all the Creek country, all of the Nmmamt Seminole country, all of the Cherokee country, all of the country occupied by the Indian tribes in the Quapaw Indian Agency, and the town site ot the Miami Townsite Company, and the places of holding courts in said district shall be at Vinita, Miami. Tahlequah, and Muscogee.