Washington telegraph., 1850-10-23
TPvBLIC-No. 80 !

[PuBLlC-No. 80
/ AN ACT making appropriations for the service
of the Post Office Department during the fiscal
year ending June the thirtieth, eighteen hundred
aud (ty-one.
Representatives. Of the United States Of America
IN Congress assembled, That the following sums
! be, and they hereby, appropriated for the
vice of the Post Office Department. for the yer
ending The hr;ieth Of June, one thousand eight
hundred aud fly 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 hundred and sixty five dollars:
/ Proridcd, That this appropriation all 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 Department,
viz: For blank books, binding, stationery, fuel, and
oil printing, labor, day watching, and for arrears
of contlng ngences in the fiscal year ending thrtieth
June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, nine
tho lsand two hundred and ninety-two dollars.
| For miscellaneous items eight hundred dollars.
! For repairs of the General Post Office building,
office furniture, painting, glazing, papering, aud
b.ick work, including sums now due for like OBJ
iec,s Of expenditure, five thousand and eighty
three dollars
For f'tng with three ply carpets sixty rooms in
the General Post Office building, three thousand
five lundied dollars.
For painting the interior of the General Post
Office building, including The passages aud stall
ways, Ave thousand dollars.
For comp" nsation of the Auditor of the Post
Office Departm Mt, and the clerks, messenger,
and assistant messenger in his Office, eighty hive
thousand eight hundred dollars.
For compe nsulon of fifteen additional clerks
lour at thousand four hundred dollars each, four
at one thousand two hundred dollars each, and
seven at one thousand dollars each, per annuni-
seventeen thousand four hundred dollars
Fer contn cent expenses OF said Office, VIZ: for
blank books, binding, stationery, labor, printing
blanks and circulars, five thousand seven hundred
dollars.
For misceia leous items, one thousand dollars;
and The Postmaster Geueral is hereby authorized,
in his discretion, 10 dispose of to the best advan-
tage any quarterly returns Of mails sent received
which were made up previous to eighteen hundred
and forty five, preserving the accouris current,
and all vouchers accompanying such accounts,
and 10 use such portion oil the proceeds thereof as
IN ~ be necessary to defray the cost ol separating
and disposing of the same.
For additional con,pep. alton 20 two ni.bi watch.
men in the General rusi Office building from Isl
July, eighteen hundred ana forty nine, Jnne
thirtielh eighteen hundred and fifty one so as to
place them on the same footing the waichmen
in the other executive buildings, and to correct IA
error in thr act making appropriations Tor the cv
and diplomatic expenses Of government for the
Year commencing FIRST 'uiy, eighteen HUNDRED and
forty nine, whereby one hundred and thirty dollars
were appropriated for The ''messenger' instead OF
the two watrhIen in the Eos Office Department,
(acts second session. ihirteth Con Iress page 62,)
two hundred and SIXTY dolais; aud the said clause
making appropriation Of additional compen-
saton of one hundred and thity dollars fer mes
senger of Post Off e Department is hereby re-
peaed.
For transportation Of the mails, including the
service III CdIilor'a and Oregon Two million nine
hundred aud fifty thousand dollars.
For transportation Of the mails iii two steam
ships from New York, by Southam ton to Bremen,
at one hundred thousand dollars for each S .ip,
under the contract with the Ocean Steam Navl-
gaiiou Company of New York; and for tran>por-
iat!oi by two ships uuIer the same contract from
New York to tavre, at seveaty-ive thousand
dollars each, in add,t on to unexpended balance
of former appropriations, [sixtysix thonsandl SIX
hundred and sixty seven thousand dolars: Pro-
rided, That the steamships TO Havre shall be
constructed according 10 the require ments OF the
act o. third Of March, thousand eight hundred
and fort five, providing for the transportation OF
the mail between the United States aud foreign
countries, and shall perform with The speed re-
quired in the contract Of second February, one
thousand eight hundred and forty II; and that
the two steamships to Bremen shall from aud after
the first June, one thousand eight hundred and
fifty two, comply. in all respects, with the re-
qulreMenis OF said act of one thousand eight
hundred and for.y five, and shall perform mail
service with the speed required by the contract
aforesaid.
For iransp Jrtaton of the mails between Charles
ton and Havana, by way of Key West, calling at
| Savannah, under the contract with NJ. L. Morde-
cal, fifty thousand dollars.
For transportation oi the mails across the 18TH
mus of Psnaina, thirty FIVE thousand dollars
| For compensation TO posmasters, -Oue million
four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For ship, steamboat and way letters forty tive
| tn ,usand dollars.
For wrapping paper, twenty -four thousand dol
| lars.
For office furniture I'm the post offices) eight
| thousand dollars.
For advertising, sixty five thcusanl dollars
For mail ba.ss, twenty five thousand dollars.
For blanks. tweniy-e,ght thousand dollars.
For mail locks, keys and stamps, ten thousand
| dollars.
/ For mail depre ja;pns and special agents, thirty
| thousand dollars
: For clerks for Offices, I'm the post ofces,) three
AhsJsed and forty thousand dollars