The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-01-02
PAUL MINNESOTA TERRITORY, THURSDAY, JANUARY
For compensation of the Superintendent Of the
Post Office building, two hundred and fifty dol


For compensation of the Superintendent Of the
Post Office building, two hundred and City dol
lars
For contingent expenses Of said Department,
viz For blank books, binding, stationery fuel and
oil, printing, labor, day watching, and for arrears
Of contingencies the fiscal year ending thirtieth
Of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty,
nine thousand two hundred and nincty-two dol
lars.
For miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars.
For repairs Of the General Post Office building,
Office furniture, painting, glazing. papering, and
bricl; work, including sums due for like OBJ
fects Of expenditure, 6ve thousand and eighty
three dollars.
For fitting with three ply carpets sixty rooms in
the General Post Office building, three thousand
FIVE hundred dollars.
For painting the interior Of the General Post
Office building, including the passages and stair
ways, five thousand dollars.
For compensation of the Auditor of the Post
Office Department, and the clerks, messenger,
and assistant messenger in his office, eighty five
thousand eight hundred dollars.
For compensation of fifteen additional clerks,
four at one thousand four hundred dollars each,
four at one thousand two hundred dollars each,
and seven at one thousand dollars each, per an
mum, 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. one thousand dollars:
and the Postmaster General is hereby authorized,
in his discretion, TO dispose of to the best advan-
iage, any quarterly returns of mails sent or re-
ceived which were made up previous to eighteen
hundred and forty-five, preserving the accounts
current, and all vouchers accompanying such ac-
counts, and to use such portion of the proceeds
thereof as may be Necessary to defiay the cost of
separating and dsposing of the same.
For additional compensation to two night watch
men in the General Post Office building, from
first July, eighteen hundred and forty to
June thirietb, eighteen hundred and ffty-one, so
as TO place them on the same footing as the
watchmen in the other executive buildings, and
to correct an error in the act making approrria-
Mons for the civil and diplomatic expenses of gov
eernment for the year commencing first July,
eighteen hundred and iorty-nine, whereby one
hundred and thirty dollars was appropriate Gr
the ''messenger'' instead Of the two watchmen in
the Post Office Department, (acts second session,
thirtieth Congress, page 62,) two hundred and
preparation OF additional compensation Of one
hun ired and thirty dollars for messenger Of Post
Office Department is 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 two steam-
ships from New York, by Southampton, to Bre-
men, at one hundred thousand dollars for each
ship, under the contract with the Ocean Steam
Navigation Company of New York; and for trans
portation by two ships, under the same contract
from New York to Hayre, al seventy five thou
sand dollars each IN addition 10 unexpeuded bal
ance Of former appropriations, sixty-six thousand
SIX hund4t2>and siXty-seven dollars; ProUided,
That the steaA6hips TO Havre, shall be construct
ed according TO the requirements OF the act Of
third of March, one thousand eight hundred and
forty-fve providing for the transportation Of the
mail between the United States and foreign coun-
tries, and shall perform with the speed required
in the contract OF second Of February, one thou
sand eight hundred and fo1ty-seven; and that the
two steamships to Bremen, shall from and after
the first June, one thousand eight hundred and
hfty-two, comply, IN all respects, with the re-
quirements of said act Of one thousand eight hun
dred and forty-fve, and shall perform mad ser
vice with the speed required by the contract aiore-
said.
Fortransportation Of the mails between Charles
ton and Havana, by way OF Key West, calling at
Savannah, under the contract with NJ. G.. Mcrdecai,
fifty thousand dollars.
For transportation Of the mails across the 18TH
mus of Panama, thirty-fve thousand dollars
For compensation to postn'asters, one million
four hundred and fifty thousand dollars
For ship, steamboat and way letters, forty-five
thousand dollars
For wrapping paper, twenty-four thousand dol
lars.
For office furniture, (in the post oi6ces,) eight
thousand dollars.
For advertising, sixty-fvc thousand dollars.
For mail bags, twenty five thousand dollars
For blanks, twenty-cight thousand dollars
For mail locks, keys, anl stamps, ten thousand
dollars.
For mail depredations, and special agents,
thirty thousand dollars.
For clerks for Offices Gin the post Offices, } three
hundred and forty thousand dollars
For miscellaneous, seventy thousand dolia--
For publishing new editions 81 the post office
laws onc regulations, and of the table of post
offices, eight thousand five hundred dollars.
SEC. 2. -4nd be 1t further enacted, That the
Postmaster General be- and he is hereby, author
lzed to pay out of any moEeg in the Treasury at
the credit Of the Post Office Department, all such
balances as have, OK may hereafter become due
to the Genera. Post Oihce of London, upon the
adjustment of the quarterly accounts arising out
of the Postal Conventions. concluded December
fifteenth, eighteen hundred and forty -eight, be-
tween the United States and the United Kingdom
Of Great Britain and Ireland.
Approved September l6, 1850.
CHAP. XL--An Act to amend and supplementary 10,
the act entitled "An respecting fIgtives from JUS
ce and persons escaping from the service Of their
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