Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-03-08

sny Of the United States shall further payments be made
on. Of said fund to clerk clerks in Of the executive
Offices.
For payment per diem Of special agent rate not to
exceed four dollars per day. and expenses Of transportation,
for the purpose Of paying of Indians In the old States and
particularly the North Carolina Indians their removal and
subsistence fund.- under the order and instructions Of the Sc
cretary OF the Treasury, one thousand dollars.
Approved, February 81, 1851
[PUBLIc-No. 1871 4sI
AN ACT making appropriations for the service of the Post
Office Department, during the fiscal year ending the hir
teth of June, thousand eight hundred and two,
and for other purposes.
Be enacted BIZ the Senate and House of Representatives
Of the United States of America IN Congress assembled
That the following be and the hereby appro
praed for the service Of the Post Office Department the
year ending the theh Of june one thousand eight hum
ded and fifty two, out Of moneys in the Treasury arising
from the Of the said Department. in conformity
the act Of the second Of july eighteen hundred and thirty
SIX, and for other purposes, VIZ
For transportation Of the mails including the service in
California and Oregon, three millions four hundred and
seventy-sx thousand dollars
For transportation Of tho mails in two steamships from New
York; by Southampton, Bremen at one hundred thousand
dollars for each ship, under the contract with the Ocean
Steam Navigation Company Of New York and for Transport
taon by two ships under the same contract from New York
Hsv seventy five thousand dollars EACH in addition to
unexpended balance Of former appropriations two hundred
and sixty seven ihusand dollars.
For transportation Of the mails the Isthmus Of Pa
mama, forty five thousand dollars.
For compensation postmasers, million eight hum
dred and seventy-6ve thousand dollars
For ship, steamboat and way letters fory6ve thousand
dollars.
For wrapping paper thirty6ve thousand dollars.
For Office furniture, nine thousand dollars.
For Advertising eighty thousand dollars
For mail bags, thirty six thousand dollars.
For blanks, thirty FIVE thousand dollars.
For mail locks keys, and stamps, ten thousand dollars
For mail depredatons and special agents. hirty-ve thou
sand dollars.
For clerks in the Offices Of postmasers four hundred and
twenty five thousand dollars.
For misceIIaneous items, eighty thousand dollars.
For mail-locks and keys, twenty-five thousand
dollars.
For maps Of pos. routes. six thousand dollars.
For incidental expenses Of post Offices in California, from
the dates respectively Of their establishment the theh of
june eighteen hundred and lone, sxysix thousand dol
lars much thereof may be necessary in addition TO
the commissions allowed by law to posmasters to be ex
pended such Offices in such proportions and under such
regulations as the Postmaster General may Direct and to be
accounted for commissions.
Sec q And be IL further enacted, That the Postmaster
General shall be and he hereby authorized to appoint letter
carriers for the delivery letters from post Office in Cali
forna Oregon and allow the letter carriers who msy be
appointed any such post Office demand and receive such
for all letters newspapers or other maaDIe matter DE-
vered by them may be recommended by the postmaster
for whose Office such letter carrier be appointed not ex-
ceedng five for every letter. two cents for every news
paper and for every Of other maabe mat
and the Postmaster General shall be and he is hereby
special
Department in California and Oregon to appoint such letter
carriers in their districts respectively, and to fix the rates OF
their compensation within the limits aforesaid subject to- and
until the final action Of the Postmaster General thereon. And
such appointments may be made and rates Of compensation
modified from time, may be deemed expeden; and
the rates Of compensation be fixed and graduated IN re-
spect the distance Of the place Of delivery from the post
office for which such carriers appointed but the rate OF
compensation Of any such letter carrier shall not be changed
after his appointment the order Of the Postmaster
General such letter carriers shall be subject to the provi
sions Of the forty first section Of the act entitled An act to
change the organization Of the Post Office Department. and to
provide more efecuay for the settlement Of the accounts
thereof" approved July second eighteen hundred and thirty
six except in cases otherwise provided for in this act
Sec 8. And be further enacted That in all of
fine, penalty Forfeiture OF disability, or alleged liability
for any sum sums of money, by way OF damages
otherwise under any provision Of law relating to the Post
Office Department the officers operations or business
thereof the Postmaster General shall be and he is hereby
to prescribe such general rules and mode
ing shall him appear expeden for the government of
the Auditor of tho Post Office Department. in ascsstanng
the facts in each case which shall be certified to him by
such Auditor that the interests Of the Department probably
require the exercise of the power conferred by this and,
upon the facts being ascetaned as aforesaid the said Auditor
shall have power with the written consent Of the
General to mitigate remit such line, penalty, or foreture
such disability and to compromise, release, and dis
charge such claims for such sum sums Of money and
damages on such the said Auditor shall deem just
and expedent and that in all where judgment shall
have been obtained for debt or damages due the Post Once
execution otherwise that such Judgment or 80 much
thereof remains unpaid be collected BY due
of law the said Auditor shall be and he is hereby authorized
with the written Of the Postmaster General compro
mise such judgments and accept, in satisfaction thereof less
than the amount Of such judgment Provided, That the
conferred by this section shall not extend to any
Of fne penalty, forfeiture disability, alleged liability or
claim which shall be incurred accrue arise subsequent to
the passage Of this sc any judgment obtained after the
passage thereof.
Sec. A. And be it further enacted That the Postmaster
General hereby authorized allow hereafter to the Special
Agents of the Post Office Department the annual salary OF
sixteen hundred dollars Propded That no more shall be-
expended this purpose during the present year than al
ready appropriated in this act
Approved, March 8, 1851.
observation-disclosures. No. g.
RESOLUTION directing the distribution of the works OF
Alexander Hamilton, and for other purposes.
Resolpd by the Senate and House Of Representatives. Of
the United States of america Congress assembled, That
the Secretary the Senate and the Clerk OF the House OF
be- end they hereby directed to distribute
by mail otherwise the works being published By an
thoy Of Congress- known the works OF Alexander Ham
lton in the following, to wit To the President of
the United Sae copy to the Libraries OF the different
Departments of the Postmaster General and the Attorney
General copy each to each member Of the present Se
nate and House Of Representatives copy TO the Office
Of the Secretary Of the Senate, five copies to the library of
the House Of Representatives, ten copies to the library Of
Congress- six copies the Libraries Of the States and Ter
rtores of the Unon each copy to the Smithsonian In
stituiou copy to the Military Academy and the Naval
School Annapolis each copy to the Joint Committee
on the Library for the purpose of international exchanges