Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-09-21
PUBLIc-No. 80.


Office Department. during the fiscal year ending June the
thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ffty-one.
Be enacted By the Senate and House Of Representatives.
oe United States of ameica in Congress assembled That
the service Of the Post Oce Department for the year ending
the hirteh June thousand eight hundred and fyone
out Of any moneys In the Treasury not otherwise appro-
priated:
For compensation Of three Assistant Posmastes General
clerks messengers assistant messengers and wachmen Of
said Department ninetysx thousand three hundred and sixty
five dollars Provided 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 Ohce
building, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses Of said Department. viz: For
blank books, binding stationery, fuel and OIL printing labor
day Watching and for Of contingencies IN the fiscal
year ending theh June, thousand eight hundred and
fifty, nine thousand hundred and ninetywo dollars.
For miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars.
For repairs Of the General Post Office building Office fur
due for like objects of expenditure five thousand
and eighty three dollars.
For fitting with hreepy carpets sixty rooms in the General
Post Office building three thousand five hundred dollars
For painting the interior Of the General Pest Office build
ing, including the passages and staiays five thousand
dollars.
For compensation Of the Auditor of the Post Office Depart
ment aud the clerks messenger, and assistant messenger in
his Office, eighty five thousand eight hundred dollars
For compensation Of fifteen additional clerks, four at
thousand four hundred dollars EACH four at thousand two
hundred dollars EACH and at thousand dollars each
per annum seventeen thousand four hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses Of said Office viz For blank books
binding stationery labor, printing blanks and circulars, five
thousand seven hundred dollars
For miscellaneous items thousand dollars and the
Postmaster General hereby authorized in his discretion
dispose OF TO the best advantage any quarterly returns Of mails
sent or received which made up previous eighteen
hundred and forty five preserving the accounts current and
all vouchers accompanying such accounts and to use such
portion Of the proceeds thereof may be to eay
the cost Of separating and disposing Of the same
For additional compensation night wa.chmep in the
General Post Office building, from first July eighteen hundred
and forty nine June theh, eighteen hundred and v
one place them the footing the watchmen
in the other Executive building and to an error in the
act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic ex
penses Of the Government for the year commencing FIRST July
eighteen hundred and forty nine whereby hundred and
thirty dollars appropriated for the messenger instead
of the two watchmen 10 the Post Office Department. (acts
second session. theh Congress- page 62 two hundred and
sixty dollars, and the said clause making appropriation Of
additional compensation Of hundred and thirty dollars for
messenger the Post Office Department hereby repealed
For transportation Of the mails including the service IN
California and Oregon, two million nine hundred and fifty
thousand dollars.
For transportation Of the mails in steamships from New
York. by Southampton, Bremen hundred thousand
dollars for each ship, under the contract with the Ocean