five millions one hundred and twenty-six thousand dollars, viz:
Transportation.For transportation of the mail, three millions five hundred and twenty thousand dollars;
Compensation of postmasters.For compensation of Postmasters, one million and ninety-seven thousand dollars;
Ship letters, &c.For ship, steamboat, and way letters, forty-three thousand dollars;
Wrapping paper.For wrapping-paper, twenty-five thousand dollars;
Office furniture.For office furniture, five thousand dollars;
Advertising.For advertising, thirty-six thousand dollars;
Mail bags.For mail-bags, forty-six thousand dollars;
Blanks.For blanks, thirty-three thousand dollars;
Mail locks, &c.For mail locks, keys, and stamps, twelve thousand dollars;
Mail depredations, &c.For mail depredations, and special agents, twenty-two thousand dollars;
Clerks.For clerks for offices, two hundred and twenty thousand dollars;
Miscellaneous.
Power of President and P. M. Gen. to transfer funds from one appropriation to another.For miscellaneous, sixty-seven thousand dollars: Provided, That the President and the Postmaster General shall have the same power to transfer funds from one to another head of appropriation, between the foregoing appropriations, made for the service of the General Post Office, as the President and any other head of an Executive Department now have to transfer funds appropriated under one head to the service of another, in any other branch of the public service.
Approved, May 8, 1840.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XXIII.—An Act for altering the time of holding the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania, at Williamsport.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Term of U. S. Dist. Court for western dist. of Pennsylvania, altered.
Act of July 27, 1842, ch. 68. That the term of the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania, which is now directed by law to be holden at Williamsport, in the county of Lycoming on the first Mondays of June and October in each year, shall be hereafter holden on the third Mondays of June and October in each year.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the first session of the District Court to be held at Williamsport after the passage of this act shall be on the third Monday of June one thousand eight hundred and forty.
Process.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all process which may have issued, or which may hereafter issue at Williamsport returnable to June term, as heretofore established, shall be held returnable, and be returned, to the terms as changed by this act.
Approved, May 8, 1840.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XXV.—An Act to revive an act authorizing certain soldiers in the late war to surrender the bounty lands drawn by them and to locate others in lieu thereof, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Act of 22d May, 1826, ch. 147, revived and continued for five years.
Act of Jan. 27, 1835, ch. 6. That the act of the twenty-second of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, entitled “An act authorizing certain soldiers in the late war to surrender the bounty lands drawn by them, and to locate others in lieu thereof,” be, and the same is hereby, revived and continued in force for the term of five years; and the provisions of the above recited act shall be, and are hereby, extended to those having like claims in the States of Illinois and Missouri.
