Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 30.djvu/717

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678 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 571. 1898. R¤i1w¤r x><>¤*-¤¤*¢¤ For railway postoflice car service for the iiscal years as follows: °'"‘ For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one hundred and fifty-nine thousand five hundred and two dollars. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, two thousand _ four hundred and ninety-four dollars and forty cents. w‘¥°“ °°"“”°· For regulation screen or other wagon service, twenty—ve thousand dollars. st. rang are sm To pay the Saint Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company for I‘{}}’;?;,§f,§,§$,{"°’°‘ amounts heretofore erroneously deducted from its lawful compensation for transportation of United States mails in the_Indian Territory, over railroad mail routes numbered one hundred and forty-five thousand and three and one hundred and tiitythree thousand and two, thirty- six thousand two hundred and twenty-two dollars and sixty cents, said sum having been so erroneously deducted on account of a supposed land grant attaching to said railroad in the Indian Territory, but which land grant the United States Supreme Court has since decided has no existence as to said line of railroad in said Territory. Rjflggfg P*;*;_‘}mQt**t§,° That the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized and directed to ’state an account with the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company, a corporation chartered by the State of Alabama, for transporting the mails of the United States over its lines during the period between July twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and January twenty-Iifth, eighteen hundred and eightynine, both inclusive; and in stating said account credit shall be given to said railroad company for all sums to which it was justly entitled. And the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized and directed, upon stating the said account, to certify the amount found to be due to said company to the Secretary of the Treasury for payment; and a sufficient sum of money is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for ‘ he payment of the sum so certified. Sfnmrn- MANUFAGTUBE OF STAMPS: For manufacture of adhesive postage and special·deliveI·y stamps, twenty thousand dollars. A·l*"**·*¤5· ADVERTISING: For advertising, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, eighty-eight dollars and twenty-eight cents. gggmegztsgn Commussrrou or Posrmxsrmnsz For amounts to reimburse the 'postal revenues, being the amount retained by postmasters in excess ot the appropriations, including the amounts set forth in House Docu- · ments Numbered Two hundred and three and Three hundred and nineteen and Senate Document Numbered Three hundred and two of this session, for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, six hundred and sixty-five thousand two hundred and thirtytwo dollars and seventy- nine cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two hundred and forty-one dollars and twenty-six cents. mg,·%W·T¤l>·¤r· v¤>‘· To pay Horace A. W. Tabor the sum of three thousand eight hundred ' and sixty-nine dollars and ninety-four cents, or so much thereof as shall appear to the proper accounting otilcer of the Government to have been paid by said Horace A. W. '|`abor for necessary expenses in the Leadville post-office over and above the allowances made for that purpose. ,,}g7r·~·¤¤·•=¤=··* ·*¤¤· DEPARTMENT or Jusrron. €¤¤*i¤¤¤¤*"P°¤¤**· For law books for library of the Department, iiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and live cen ts. _ For miscellaneous expenditures, nscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and prior years, four hundred and fifty-eight dollars and forty-four cents. For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights, foreign postage, labor, repairs of building and care of grounds, and othelr peciessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney-General, three thousam c dollars.