The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-06-14
TPUBLIC-No. 81. I

AN ACT ma king appropriations for the service of the
Post Office Department during the fiscal year end
ing the Both of June, 1867 and for other purposes
Be ii enacted By the senate and House Of Repre
sentutiUes or United States of America in Con
gresS assembled, That the following sums be, anG
the same are hereby appropriated for the service
the Post Office Department for the year ending JUNE
30h 1861 out of any moneys in the treasury arising
from the of said department. in conformity
to the act of the I'd of July 1886:
For transportation ofthe mails (inland), nine. mil
lion five hund red and fifty thousand dollars. es
For transportation of mails (foreign) six hundred
thousand dollars,
For ship, steamboat and way letters. eight thous
and dollars.
For compensation to postmasters four million
two hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
For clerks for postotices, one million nine hun
bred and twenty thousand dollars. t
For payment to etter-carriers, six hundred ant
forty thousand dollars. -t.ft
For wrapping paper one hundred thousand dol
lar, .HF5xrA
For Irvine. thirty thousand dollars II.
Furlttter ba ances, Fix thousand dollars.
FIR compensation TO blank agents and assistant:
c.ght thousand dollars.
For office furniture six thousand dollars.
For advertising. eighty thousand dollars.
For postage stamps and stamped envelopes, two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For mail depredations and special agents, one
hundred thousand dollars. ~. b.
For mail bags, one hundred and thirty thousand
For mail locks, keys and stamps, thirty Thousand
dollars
FOr payment Oh balances que 10 foreign cOuQ
tries, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For miscellaneous payments, three hundred and
twenty thousand dollars.
To enable the superintendent Of the Naval Oserva
tory to carry out the object of senate resolution
March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six
dollars for report oflsthmus routes to the Pacific
ocean fifteen hundred dollars.
Sec. 2. ana be IT. Jrtter enacted, That the follow
ing sums, much thereof as may be necessary be
and the same are hereby, appropriated for the yeal
ending June thirteth. eighteen hundred and sixty
GnNpn nlltn f1 N he moi thor
wise appropriated ~ s-l#
For the mail steamship service between the United
States and Brazil one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars : kro0ided, That this appropriation shall
take effect only when Brazil shall have performed the
condition on her part provided in the law author
For the mail steamship service between San Fran
cisco Japan. and China for six months ending June
thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For the overland mail transportation between
Atkinson and Folsom, and for marine mail transpor
tation between New York and California, nine hun
Sec. 8. And be itTnetherenacted That the Post
master General be, and is hereby, authorized to EN-
ploy sailing vessels for the transportation of the
and any foreign ports where the ser
vicemay be facilitated thereby allowing and paying
therefor compensation not exceeding the sea post
ages accruing on the mails so conveyed.
SEC. 3. And be IL FL. Tier enacted That the Post
master General be, and is hereby, required to report
to the Secretary of the Treasury annually, prior tC
first day of November ofeach year, his estimate OIL
the money required for the service of the Post
Office Department for the ensuing fiscal year: which
estimate shall be reported to Congress with the
printed estimates of appropriations required by the
joint resolution of the seventh of January eighteen
hundred and forty six.
Sec, 5. And be it further enacted, That the bal
ance of the appropriation Of one hundred thousand
dollars under the thirteenth section of an act ito
tablish postal money order system" approved
May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four
which may remain unexpended at theclose of the cur
rentfiscal year, may be used far necessary TO
supply deficiencies in the proceeds Of the money Or
der system during the fiscal year commencing July
first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.
Sec. g. And be it FURTHER end"ted That, all adj
verslng. notices. and proposals for contracts for the
Post Office Department and all advertising notices.
and proposals for contracts for all the Executive
Departments OF the Government, required by law TO
be published in the city of Washington shall hereaf
ter be advertised by publication in the two daily
newspapers in the city of Washington having the
largest circulation. and in no others Pr0rided
That the charges for such publications shall not be
higher than such paid by individuals for adyer
Using in said papers Ind proeided also That the
same publications shall be made in each of said ma
pers equally to frequency and that the circulation
of such papers shall be determined upon the tenth
day of June annually, and the publishers of all pa
pers competing for such advertising shall furnish
sworn statement of their bona fde paid Circulation
ofeach regular issue for the preceding three months:
and shall in ike manner certify under oath that such
circulation has not during the said three months
been increased by anyfgratuitous circulation nv a re-
duction in pfce below the ordinary and usual nrice
of such papers. or By any other means for the mr.
pose of obtaining the official advertisino. Pr1rdsd
greater than is paid for the publications in
other cities. at higher rate than Is paid bv indi
viduas for like advertising.
Approved May IS. 1866.