Southern shield., 1850-10-12
PUBLIC-No. 30.

AN ACT making appropriations for the
 service of the Post Office Department
 during the fiscal year ending June the
 thirteth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one.
 Bea enacted Jy Me Senate and House ot Representatives of he Ulaaed States Qf .Anaeri- co ua Congress assembled That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated for the service of the Post Office Depart ment, for the year ending the thrtieth of June, one thousand eight numbered and tilty-one, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
 For compensation of three Assistant Postmasters General. clerks, messengers, assistant messengers, and watchmen of said Department, ninety six thousand three hun dTed and siXty-fve dollars: Pl0Uided, That this appropriation shall be in lieu of any other appropriation heretofore made for the objects contemplated by this provision.
 For compensation of the superintendent of the Post Office building, two hundred and fifty dollars.
 For contingent expenses of said Depart mept, viz: For blank books, binding, sta tionery, fuel, and oil, printing, labor, day ''t'|NilliiS7s OilNl lOA ICulS VI COull1CIlCIGS in the fiscal year ending thrtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, nine thousand two hundred and ninety-two dollars
 For miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars.
 For repairs of the General Post Office building, office furniture, painting, glazing, apering, and brick work, including sums z bw due for like objects of expenditure, ilo thousand and eighty-three dollars. ,l For fitting with three-ply carpets sixty rtoms in the Federal Post Office building, thIe thousand five hundred dollars.
 hr painting the interior of the General PosDfico building, including the passagesI and tair-ways, five thousand dollars.
 To compensation of the Auditor of the Post Mice Department, and the clerks, messeker, and assistant messenger in his office, ghty-Gve thousand eight hundred dollars.7
 For Compensation of fifteen additionaII cleIks-lur at one thousand four hundred dollars eth, four at one thousand two hundred lollars each, and seven at one thousand ellars each, per annum-seven- teen thousad four hundred dollars
 For conhgent expenses of said office, viz: for bail-books, binding, stationery, labor, printlg blanks and circulars, five thousand seen hundred dollars.
 For lnlt tliat eous items, one thousand 4oi'a1s; on he postnasster GsS.nsraI is here oy anthoIhA in his discretion, 10 di5rvs,0f oI 10 the beA advantage any quarterly rel turns of maIssent or received which vere made UP pred4s to eighteen hund.rC;9rrro,nr,tt forty Ive' preserving the account snch I O, ac,, and all voucEers accompanyinpg. .f suon tha nro % counts, and to lSe such portrn oi silI FrU ceeds thereof asmay be ~I'gesaly so uIt,b ,ho the cost of sepaa i'g and dlsposing 0l 'he same.
 For additional compensation 10 twob pight watchmen n the General Post Office building from lst July, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, toJune thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-ne, so as to place them on the same footin9as the watchmen in theLL other executive buildings, and to correct an error in the act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses ot government for the year commencing first Iuly, eighteen hunded and forty nine, whereby one hundrei and thirty dollars were appropriated for'the 'messenger' in stead of the two wat:hmen in the Post Office Department, (aets second session, thirtieth Congress, page 62,) two hundred and sixty dollars; and tie said clause mak- ing an appropriation oE additional com : pensation of one hundredpnd thirty dollars I for messenger of Post Oaice Department <