The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-11-26
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By tie oc making appropriations for the service Of the Post
Office Department during the fiscal year ending June
| thutieth, eighteen hundred and fffy-one.
| For compensation of three assistant posmasters
| general, clerks, messenger assistsn; messen-
gers and watchmen Of said Department 1886 90
For compensation OF the superintendent of the
| post office building $50 90
| For contingent expenses of said ID parment,
viz. For blank books, binding, stationery, fuel
and oil, printing, labor, day watch ,g, and for
arrears of contingencies in the fiscal year end
ing birtiett Of June, one thousand eight hun
| dfed and fifty 9,292 90
| For miscellaneous items 500 90
For repairs OF the General Post Office building,
Office furniture, painting, glazing, paperng
and brick work. including due for
like objects of expenditure 5,0s3 90
For fitting with three-ply carpets sixty rooms in
the General Pos, Office building $500 90
For painting the interior Of the Genera! Post
Office building, including the passages AMI
s,arwsys 5000 90
For compensation of the Auditor Of the Post
Office Department, and the clerks messenger,
and assistant messenger in bis Office $500 90
For compensation of fifteen additional clerks
four Of Thousand four hundred dolsrs EACH
four at one thousand two hundred dollars each,
and at thousand dollars cach per
annum l7,1OO 90
For contingent expenses OF said Office, viz for
blank books, binding, stationery, labor, print
| ing blanks and circulars $500 90
For miscellaneous items 1000 90
| For additional compensation IN two night watch
| in the General Post Office building from
first July, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, TO
June thirieib, eighteen hundred and fifty
one, so as to place them on the same footing
as The vatchmen in the other executive build
ings and to in the act making
| appropriations for the civil and diplomatic ex-
penscs of Government for the year commenc
ing first july eighteen hundred and forty. nine,
! whereby hundred aud thirty dollars
appropriated for the =" messenger" instead Of
the two wstchmen in the Poet Office Depart
msnt, (acis second session, 30th Congress,
page 62) eco 90
For transportation OF the mails, including the SER
vice in California and Oregon 2,o5O,oO 90
For transportation Of the mails in two steamsh ships
from New York, by Southampton, TO Bremen,
at one hundred thousand dollars for each sh p,
under the contract with the Ocean Steam Ma
vIgs'i1n Company Of New York aud for
transportation by ships under the same
contract, from New York To Hsvrr, at seventy
five thousand dollars each in addition TO I'M
expended balance of form-r appropriations &C. se7 90
For transportation Of The mail between Charles
ton and Havana, by way Of Key West, calling
at Savannah, under the contract with NJ. e..
Mordccoi $4,000 90
For uansp,rts,ion of the mail, across the 18th.
mus OF Panama 35 900 90
For compensation 10 posmssiers $50 600 on
For ship, steamboat and way letters As 900 90
For wrapping paper "a 600 90
For office furn ure in the post offices 5000 90
For advertising G5 900 90
For mai, bogs 25 600 90
For blanks %, 900 90
For ms Iocks keys, and stamps 10 600 90
For mail depredstons and spec al agents 80, 600 90
FIR clerks for Offices, Gin the post ofoes 34O 600 90
For miscellaneous 20 600 90
For publishing editions Of the post office
laws and regulations, and Of the table Of post
offices $500 90
For the payment of all such bslsnces ss have or
may her, alter become due To the General Post
Office Of London upon the adjustment Of the
quarterly accounts arising Of the Postal
Convention, concluded December fifteenth