Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-06-24
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed at the First Session Of the Wrty-third
Congress of the United States of america.
TPUBLIc-No. 25. !

| AN ACT regulating the pay of deputy postmasters.
Be enacted By the Senate and House Of Representatives.
of United States of America Congress assembled That,
in place of the compensation now allowed deputy post
masters the Postmaster General be and he is hereby
thorzed to allow them commissions at the following rates
the postage collected at their respective Offices in each
quarter of the year. and in due proportion for any period
less than quarter viz:
On any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars sixty
per cent? but any postmaster at whose Office the mail s
arrive regularly between the hours Of nine O'clock
night and five o'clock in the morning. may be allowed
seventy per cent. on the first hundred dollars
On any sum and above one hundred dollars, and
not exceeding four hundred dollars fifty per cent.
On any and above four hundred dollars, but
exceeding twenty four hundred dollars, forty per
| cent.
And on oil sums over twenty-four hundred dollars if
teen per cent ,rs
On the of postage on letters and packages
ceved at distributing Office for distribution twelve and
one-haf per cent. commission may be allowed.
Every postmaster whose compensation shall not exceed
five hundred dollars in quarter shall be allowed one
cent every free letter delivered out of his Office
except such for the postmaster himself But the
special allowance made by law the postmasters at
New Orleans and Washington city shall not otherwise be
either increased or diminished
Each postmaster who shall be required to keep regis
ter of the arrival and departure of the mails shall be al
lowed ten cents for each monthly return which he makes
to the Postmaster General.
Each postmaster may be allowed two mills for the de-
livery from his Office to subscriber of each newspaper
not chargeabe with POSTAGE Popdd That to any post
master OF distributing ONCE at which the commissions
allowances and emouments since the thirty first day Of
March, thousand eight hundred and fythree, have
been insufficient to deray the actual and necessary
penses and afford the postmaster the annual compensa-
ton derived from commissions at the office before said
thirty first of March, the Postmaster General may in his
discretion allow quarterly, from the date aforesaid out
of the hostages collected at any such Office amount
sufficient to supply such deficiency: Provided, further
That to any postmaster of separating Office whose COM
missions, allowances, and emoluments may be found in
sufficient to provide the extra labor necessary to prompt
and efficient performance Of the duties Of separating and
dspatching the mails passing through his office, the Post
master General may make such quarterly allowance, out
of the hostages collected at such Office he may deem
sufficient to compensate such extra labor: Provided fur
he That the commissions and allowances authorized by
this act shall be subject to the provisions of the forty
section of the act entitled An act to reduce into the
acts establishing and regulating the Post Office
Departments" And provided further That the Postmaster
General may in his discretion dispose Of any quarterly
returns Of mails sent received, which made up
previous to the first day Of July eighteen hundred and
fifty preserving the accounts current and all vouchers
accompanying such and such portion Of the
proceeds thereof may be necessary to deay the cost
of separating and disposng of the This act shall
take effect and be in force from and after the
ment of the next fiscal quarter after its passage.
Approved, June % 1854.