Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-10-02
CHAP 3l-AN Act


Making appropriations for the service of the Post
Office Department for the year ending thirGe,h
June eighteen hundred and forty -seven.
[SEc. IL Be tt enacted by the Senate and
House Of Representatives Of the United States Of
America in Congress. assembled That the follow
ing sums of money be, and the same are hereby.
appropriated for the service of the Post Office De-
partment, for the year ending the thirteth of June,
eighteen hundred and forty. seven, out of any mo-
neys in the treasury arising from the revenues of
the said Department, in conformity 10 the act of
the second of July, eighteen hundred and thirty
six namely:
For transportation of the mails, two millions
seven hundred thousand dollars and the Post
master General is hereby authorized to apply TWEEN
ty five thousand dollars of the money appropriated
for mail transportatiOns for line of mail steamers
from the United States to Biemen; but no further
sum shall I've diverted to any other object than the
transportation of the mail within the United States.
For compensation Of postmasters, one million
dollars;
For ship. steamboat and way letters, twelve
thousand dollars;
For wrapping paper. sixteen thousand dollars !;
For office furniture, or post Offices four thou-
sand doIlars;
For advertising, thirty thousand dollars;
For blanks, seventeen Thousand dollars;
For mail locks, keys, and stamps four thousand
dollars;
For mail depredations and special agents, thir.
teen thousand dollars;
For clerks for offices, (for offices of postmaJers,
two hundred thousand dollars;
For miscellaneous fifty thousand dollars;
For defraying the expenses of the magnetic tel
egraph from the city OF Washington to Baltimore,
four thousand dollars; this appropriation to be
available If need be, before the commencement of
the next fiscal year Pr0U Ged, That the Post
master General be and he is hereby authorized to
let, for limited time, the aforesaid telegraph to
any person who will keep it in oper; ton for its
earnings; or he may. under the direction of the
President of the United States, sell the same.
For paying an ascertained balance due tc Mes
srs Hale and Coleman, under their contract OF
May thirty first, eighteen hu"dred and thirty-se'
ven, forty dollars and seven:y-five cents;
For publishing a new edition of eighteen thou
sand copies of the tab of post offices in the Unit
ed States. ard the same number Of the Laws and
regulations for the government of the Post Office
Department" eight thousand five hundred dollars
Prouided the work be let tn contract the low
est bidder, upon the terms indicated by the seven
teenth section of the act approved twentv-sixtl
August eighteen hundred and forty-two, ''legaliz
ing and making appropriations for such necessary
objects as have been usually included in the gene
raj appropriation bills without authority of law
&C."
| SEC. 2. And be 1t further enacted. That II
the of the Department. referred to il
the first section of this act. shall prove insufficient
to meet the foregoing appropriations, then any de
ficiency that may thus arise shall be paid out o
any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appro
priated.
Anprnvad Iune 1919