The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-12-23
Washington, Monday, December %, 1850.

For compensation of the superintendent of the
post office building,
For contingent expenses of said Department, viz
$500 90 For blank books binding stationery fuel, and
OIL printing, labor day watching, and for
rears OF contingencies in the fiscal year ending
hirteth OF June, one thousand eight hundred
1000 90 rd and ,i h.y, ,a.o,,. ,,.. o.
For repairs OF the General Post Once building
ONCE furniture, painting, glazing, papering and
900 90 brick work, including sums now due for like
objects OF expenditure 5,
the General Post Office building, 3,
1000 90 For painting the interior OF General Post
Once building, including the passages and
For compensation of the Audipr of the Post
5000 90 once Department and the clerks, messenger,
and assistant messenger in his Office, IS,
For compensation of fifteen additional clerks,
four al one thousand four hundred dollars each
1000 90 four nj one thousand two hundred dollars each
and seven at one thousand dollars each, per
annum, II,
For contingent expenses of said Office, viz; for
blank books, binding, stationery, labor, printing
|, $50 90 blanks and circulars, s,
For miscellaneous items i,
For additional compensation two night watch
III the General Post Office building from
s,52l 90 first July eighteen hundred and forty nine TO
June hiriieth eighteen hundred and ffty-one,
80 rs to place them on the same footing as the
1000 90 watcnen in the other executive buildings, and
g. 200 90 Ia correct error in the act making approp
atoms for the civil and diplomatic expenses OF
Government for the year commencing first July,
1000 90 eighteen hundred and forty nine, whereby
hundred and thirty dollars appropriated for
the " messenger instead of the two watch
men in the Post Office Department (acts
! ,533 20 ond session, Both Congress, page 62,)
For Str ~ of fun the mails including the ser on
100 90 For transportation of the mails in steamships
from New ork, by Southampton, TO Bremen,
at one hundred thousand dollars for each ship,
under the contract with the Ocean Steam Nav
igaton Company of New York, and for trans
portahOn by two Ships under the
1000 90 tract from New York to Ilave, seventy
thousand dollars each, in addition 10
pended balance of former appropriations, Co.,
For transportation of the mails between Charles
ton and Havana, by way of Key West, calling
Savannah, under the contract with NJ. &.
0 900 90 Mordeca so,
For transportation of the mails across the 18TH
mus of Panama, 81,
! 900 90 For compensation TO posnastcrs, $50,
For ship, steamboat, and way letters, 45,
For wrapping paper, %,
5000 90 For office furniture in the post Offices g.
For advertising g.,
For mail bags AL
. 800 90 For blanks, IS,
For mail locks, keys, and stamps, lOy
For mail depredations and special agents, 30,
For clerks for offices, lin the post Ofices,) $40,
For miscellaneous, 20,
For publishing new editions of the post Office
laws and regulations, and of the table OF post
offices, &,
For the payment Of all such balances as have
may hereafter become due to the General Post
Il 1871 So Office of London upon the adjustment of the
quarterly accounts arising out Of the Postal
nth and tohh.en.pi,, ronriuie "a DtSenoer m'rcnuh
and TO Inited States and the Inited Kingdom of;rrai
Iouse Of Britain and Ireland-[ Indefinite.
Mr APP - .o-