The Arkansas banner., 1846-10-21
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AN ACT making appropriations for the service of
 the Posi Office Department for the year ending
 thir,icth June eighleea hundred and forty y-seve6.
 Sec. l. Be n cnaeted by fhes Seaaie aud House of Representatives. e the Unifsd States of .4meriea in 7Congress dsssmbled, That the following seias ef money be. aud the same are hereby. appropriated for l ssfyes of the Post Office Department, for die year s!,fing the thirticth of June, eighteen hundred aAd loriyeven ont of any moneys in the treasury arising from the revenues of the said DepaEtment, in conformity to the act of the second of July, eighteen hundred and thiriy-siK, namely:
 For transportation of the maiIs two millions sev- en hundred thousand dollars; and the Postmaster General is hereby authorized to apply twenty five thoasandl dollars of the money appropriated for mail tFansporatons far line of mail steamers from the United States to Bremen; but no further sum shall be deprived to any other object than the trans. poTtatioa Of the mail within the United States.
 For compensation of postmasters, one million doIIars
 For ship. steamboat, and way letters, twelve thousand dollars;
 For wrapping paper, sixteen thousand dollars;
 For oiiiee fumture.l for post offices. ionr thous- and dollars;
 For advertising, thirty thousand dollars;
 For mail bags, twenty thousand dollars;
 For blanks seventeen thousand dcllars;
 For mail locks, keys. and stamps, four thousand dollars;
 For InalI depfedations and special agents thirteen thousand dollars;
 For clerks for office, (Ior offices of posmasters, two hundred thousand dollars;
 For miscellaneous fifty thousand dollars;
 For defraying the expenses of the magnetic tel egfaph from the city of Washington 10 Baltimore, four thousand dollars; this appropriation to be available, f need bs, before the commencement q the next fiscal year: Provided. That the Postmaster General be and he is hereby authorized to let for limited time, the aforesaid telegraph to any person who will keep it in operation for it's earnings; he may, under the direction of the President of the United States. sell the same.
 For paying an ascertained balance due to Messrs. Hale and Coleman, under their contract of May thrty-ffst eighteen hundred and thirty seven, for ty dollars and seyeniy-five cents;
 For publishing new edition of eighteen thous- and copies of the table of post offices the United States and the same number of the s4Laws and reg nlations for the government of the Post Office De- partment," eighteen thousand i've hundred dollars: Provided the work be let to contract to the lowest bidder, upon the terms indicted by the seventeenth section of inc act approved twenty sixth August, eighteen hundred and iorty-two, "legalizing and making appropriations for such necessary objects as have been usually included in the general appro- priation bills without authority of law, &c."
 Sec. 2. find be II further enacted, That in the revenues fthe Department, referred to in the first section of this act sha prove insufficient to meet the foregoing appropriations, then any de- hciency that may thus arise shall be paid out Of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
 Approved, June l9, lS46.