The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-03-06
BY AUTHORITY.
avs Of the United States passed Second sessio,
OF the Twcnty-ninth Congress.

An
4 June, one thousand eight hundred and orty-eigh.
] b enacted by the Senate and House Of Representatives o.
H. Tea States of A1iccd Congress assembled That Tie
ulovh be- and the same hereby appupTjajed
u of any money in the treasury not otherwise apPropra
Hmg on the hirieh June, one thousand eight hundred
Var nav of officers instructors cadets, and musicians
lunty-nne thousand seven hundred and -four dollars
For comaton of subsistence, five thousand four hun
II red and TWO dollars
For forage for officers horses iouf thousand three hundred
and twenty dollars
For clothing OF officers servants tour hundred and TWEEN
For repairs and Improvements fuel and apparatus; for
nge ior public horses and oxen stationery printing and
her incidental and contingent expenses twenty thousand
For barracks for cadets, fifteen thousand dollars.
u JOHN w. DAVIS,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
G. M. DALLAS
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate
l APPROVED March 2, ls47:
JAMES X, POLK.
[PUBLIc-No. %.
IAN ACT making appropriations for the service of the
Post Office Department for the year ending the the thir-
ieth Of june eighteen hundred and forty-eight
Be enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives. Of
} nid States of Anaerca in Congress assembled That the
appropriated for the service of the Post Office Department,
r die wear ending thrtieh June eighteen hundred and
Inryeght, of any moneys in the treasury arising from
he OF the said depa tnent in conformity to the
m of the second OF july eighteen hundred and thirtysix,
For transportation of the mails within the United States
wo million four hundred and ortyone thousand three hun
drd and nney-one dollars
For transportation by steamships between New York
and Bremel according to the contract with Edward Mills
Ibe mail between the United States and foreign countries
approved March third, eighteen hundred and fortyve
hundred and ty-egh thousand six hundred and nine
dollars
For compensation posnasters, million and forty
wo thousand dollars. Procded, That it shall not be lawful
or the Postmaster General TO make any allowance
ensaion to any Deputy Postmaster in addition to his
commissions, except the special allowance made by law
he pos,nasers New Orleans and the city Washington
and excepting also, the allowance to which postnaster
entitled by law from the income from boxes: Ind
wordcd, further, That each Deputy Postmaster, whose
compensation for the last preceding year did not exceed
hundred dollars may send through the mail all letters
EN- communications addressed himself ON his private
business which shall not exceed in weight half ounce,
rec oil postage
For SHIP steamboat and way letters seventeen thousand
dollars.
For wrapping paper, sixteen thousand dollars.
For Office furniture or the offices of postnasers) three
thousand dollars.
For advertising thirty thou sand dollars
For mail bags, twenty thousand dollars.
For blanks, seventeen thousand dollars.
For maoc keys, and stamps four thousand dollars
sand dollars Provided, That the Postmaster General be,
and he is hereby authorized employ when the service
agents, and to make them compensation and allowance
therefor to exceed the amount expended by said agents
as necessary travelling expenses while SO employed.
For clerks for Offices lin the offices of postnasters two
hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For miscellaneous, fifty thousand dollars.
SIC. 2 A,d be ii further enaced, That in the
of the department referred to in the first section of this
act shall prove insufficient TO meet the foregoing appopria
TONS then deficiency that may thus arise shall be paid
of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropria
ted
Src g. And be 1t further enacted That the assistant mes
engers OF the Post Office Department shall be entitled
annual salary of four hundred and fifty dollars.
SEC A. And be further enacted, That the Secretary of
the Treasury be- and he is hereby authorized and directed
pay Rowland and Aspinwal of the city of New York.
the Of five thousand dollars, with interest from the first
nj her e N uIr I.tpIfn of
money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated be-
ng the amount of draft drawn by James Reesde, the
Post Office Department, dated the eighteenth day of April
eighteen hundred and thrty payable the first day
November, eighteen hundred and hirtyfve the order of
The said Reside and accepted by the Treasurer of the Post
Office Department and by the said Reside endorsed the
order of II. H. Williams, of Baltimore, and by the said
Williams endorsed in blank and which draft the property
Of the said Rowland and Aspnwal.
APPROVED March 2 1917.