Smyrna times., 1863-05-14
rPUBIIC-No 90 !


AN AcT making appropriations for The Iervi,e ofthe
Post Ollie hepartIHcNI during the fiscal year ending
the lhIrueth"i Jdne Ghetn hundred and sixty four.
De eDdcie. By NE 'eSte ant House ef Representa-
tuS q The tHIte3 >f1fS cC AWerjcq. IN Congress as
Sem6ieI, fhlt Ihr iuioNI he and the same are
hereby Appropriated .ui the service uf the Pus Office
Department Tor The yeRr ending the thIreth OF June.
eighteen hh"dred aud siNr four. out of any nancy
Tue IrTHsIty arising from the revenues of The taid
Department. IN c'n"rmity 10 the of the second "
July eighteen hunired aud thirty SIX:
For transportation OF the mails (Isnd) seven million
two hundred and two thousand dollars.
For foreign mail transportation, four hundred and
twenty thousand dollars
For ship, steamboat and way letters ght thousand
dollars. For compensation 10 pOSimaS ers, mil.
lion four hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
For clerks for post Offices. nine huRdred and fifty
thOusand dollars
For payment l0 lette r-Carriers, one hund red aAd
eighty thousand dollars
For compensation of blank agents and assis,snis,
ihOusaIEi collars
For wrapping paper, forty thousand dollars.
For IwIne, fifteen thousand dollars.
For nit e stamps, slX thousand dollars
Fur Utfiie furniture, three thousand dollars
For al vertisIng RIy-iiv thousand dollars.
Tor p stag" stamps and stamped envelopes, one
huudrej thousand dollars
For mai epredatIons and special agents seventy
five ipuEand do a..
For mail BOYS (bIgsl sixty.fivs thousand dolar.
For unal 'Orks keys. aud miscellaneous Iums. ten
! thousand dollars
For payment OF halance due to foreign countries.
!
For anpous pa me ATS, hund ed and fifty
| five IA usaud dJlIars; o. whICh not exceeding Hour
tho sand dDhrs may be OiraIed Tor htIing up
pOr ui The cu-tUn-' 0Isrs al Newport. RhOde is
land and New Bedford Massachusetts, Tor The use of
the pot Offices M SAID cities
Sc.2 And be IL farther enacted. That the sum Of
ono miiIon dr."rs hcTeDy appropriated. out OF any
Innney nr The Treasury NOT otherwise appropriated
for he service ui the tah"rnia central route.
Sec. 5 And be II further enacted, That III case the
rev snues 0i the Post Office department are insult
EN- to meet the appropriations nude ~ ihe act the
uniraWn balances OF appropriations heretofore MADE
% sap ly Deficiencies OF that department are hereby
made appcuble 10 the payment thereof.
Sec. 4 And be II further enacted. That the sum OF
thousand dollars be transferred from the apprsprl
aIUn Tor paper ior The public printing pfoyued for by
! act approved March fourteenth. eighteen hundred
and sIxtyIwO. enUte IAN act making appropriations
for the Legislative Judicial and exccuiv" expenses OF
The Government for the year ending lhIrteth o Juno
eighteen hundred aud sixty Two. To enable The fost
master Genera, to pey tnercirOm the compensation
OF the btank nc ns and heIr assistants. her toore
paid ont nt he appropriation iOt post office blanks
See $ Ana bC " (Lrtter enacted. That the IoSmasler
General he Had he Is hereby auihn ized TO contract
and provide for the IranSporniIun ul he United SlaCs
mats %! the steamship rdnnlng between san ran
cisco, Caitto:nia and Victoria, Van Couvers Island.
10 be aelIv ed Crescent city and TRINIDAD Calf
f1rna, Astoria and Portland in OregOT as oitsn 90
aaid steamships Ipnch az said points named Bnd ai
Port Angelo Washington Territory. as often as SAID
steamships approach pass that point going 10 or re-
turning from Victoria and that the mail service pre-
vide Tor The ilth seCOn of the act entitled IAN asS
making OpraIIOnk for the service O the resi- IN
| flee Deparme nj during the fiscal year ending me
THIRTEEN oil June sIghteen hundred ana sixty'ureet
| shall cease the termination OF the year Tor whlcn
1t was contracted: PROVIDED, nevertheless. That the
service herein provided iur shall not exceed ihe sum
! OF twenty four hOusnnd doliars per nnnIIn.
| Approved, February 9, 1868.