Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-03-11
BY AUTH oRITY.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STAIRS

fSssed during the Second Session of the Thirty
Congress
| PUBLIC ACT-No. 391
AN ACT making appropriations for the service 81 tbe
Post Office Department during the fiscal wear ending
the threth OF June, thousand eight hundred and
Be it enacted By The Senate and House of PeD,eseuta
tires oftte United States of america in Congress-
bed That the 70 lowing sums be- and tbe same 70
by appropriated for the service of the Post Office De
partment for the year ending the thteeh of June one
thousand eight hundred and tyou out of any moneys
in the Treasury arising from the revenues of the said
Department in conformity to the of the second of In
ly thousand eight hundred and thirty six and for
other purposes, viz:
For transportation of the mails five million and tive
ty nine thousand dollars;
For compensation to postmasters two million and
twenty-sx thousand dollars;
For ship, steamboat and way letters thirty thousand
dollars;
For wrapping paper, ffty-two thousand dollars;
Thousand dollars
For advertising. seventy six shousand five hundred
dollars
For mail bags. ffty-one thousand dollars;
For blanks, fifty thousand dollars;
For mail locks, keys, and stamps, twenty thousand
For mail depredatons and special agents. fifty thou
sand dollars;
For clerks in the Offices of postmastsrs five hundred
and ifty-sx thousand dollars;
For miscellaneous items one hundred and TWENTY
thousand dollars
For postage stamps and stamped envelopes fifty five
SEc.2. And be it further enacted That there be- and
is hereby appropriated of any money in the Treas
ury not otherwise appropriated. exceeding one
lion eight hundred thousand dollars, to supply any de-
ciency that may ARISEN the of the Post Office
Department to meet the aoregong appropriations for
the year ending the thrteth of June one thousand eight
hundred and ffty-four
SEC 3. Andbe 1t further enacted, That in all cises
where the Postmaster General shall be satisfied that
either money property stolen from the United States
mail sha have exchanged for other money proper
ty and has been upon the conviction of the thief received
at his Department he shall have authority upon satsac
tory evidence that the justly belonged any ndiv
DUAL trm or corporation to pay and deliver such money
or property to the owner thereof
Sec. 4. And be further enacted That section three of
the act entitled An act making appropriations for the
service of the Post Office Department during the fiscal
year ending the hreth of June, one thousand eight
hundred and fifty three and for other purposes and APP
proved the thirty first of August thousa nd eight
hundred and two be- and the is hereby. repealed
Sec. 5. And be further enacted That the Postmaster
General hereby authorized to make such arrangement
as he may deem advisable by causing letters sent to
California and Oregon to be advertised free expense
to the United States and by the issuing of circulars
postmasters and causing the to be published to in
sure as far possible. the delivery of letters by
mail from the Atlantic States to California the indiv
duals to whtm they directed.
| Approved March3, 1853.