The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-07-21
back, three hundred aud twenty eight
Thousand three hundred and fifty dol-

back, three hundred and twenty eight
Thousand three hundred and fifty doll
lars.
For transportation of the mails be.
tween San Francisco, California, and
k0lympia, WashiDgton Territory, one
hundred and twenty ~ thousand five
hundred dollars.
For transportation of the mails on
Puget's Sound, twenty two thousand
four hundred dollars.
SECTION 2. And be u further enacted,
That there be paid to the Post Office
Department, out of the appropriation of
three hundred and forty six thousand
FIVE hundred dollars granted by the first
section of the act of third March,
eighteen hundred and ffty,seven, ''for
transportation of the mails from New
York to Liverpool, and back the sum
of sixteen thousand seven hundred and
fifty seven dollars and seventy cents, for
five outward trips from New York to
Liverpool, to wit: on fourteenth Feb
ruary and eleventh April, eighteen hum
dred and fifty seven, and thirteenth Feb1
ruary, thirteenth March, and tenth
April, eighteen hundred and fifty eight,
when the Collins line failed to perform
service; and hat the further sum of
thirty. five Thousand dollars, or so much
thereof as may be necessary, be paid to
the Post Office Department, out OF the
appropriation aforesaid, to enable the
Postmaster General to procure the trans
pcrtation of the nails from New York
to Liverpool, and back, on the twenty
fourth April, the eighth and twenty
second May, and the fifth and nineteenth
June, eighteen hundred and fifty eight,
if the Collins line should fail to perform
service on those days.
SECTION 8. And be IL further enacted,
That the following sums be, and the
same are hereby. appropriated, for the
service of the Post Office Department
for the year ending the thirtieth of
June, eighteen hundred and fifty nine,
out of any money in the treasury arising
from the revenues of said department,
in conformity to the act of the second
of July, eighteen hundred and thirty
six:
For transportation of the mails from
New York, by Southampton OF Cowes,
to Havre, two hundred and thirty thou
sand dollars.
For transportation of the mails be-
tween Charleston and Havana, fifty
thousand dollars.
For transportation of the mails across
the Isthmus of Panama, n hundred
thousand dollars.
SECTION 4. And be it further enacted,
That IT shall not be lawful for the Post
General to make any steamship or
other new contract for carrying the mails
the sea for a longer period than two
years, nor for any other compensation
than the sea and inland hostages on the
mails so. transported. u,9
SECTION 5. And be II further enacted,
That the Postmaster General be, aud
he is hereby authorized to the
mails to be transported between the
United States and any foreign port or
ports, by steamship, allowing and pay
ing therefor out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, If
BY an American vessel, the sea andssUni-
ted States inland postage, and if by any
foreign vessel the sea postage only, on
the mails so conveyed Provided, that
the preference shall always be given to
American over a foreign steamship
when departing from the same port for
the same destination, within three days
of zach other.
Approved IA June, 1858.