The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-11-15
CHAP. LNXXV.


An Acl making Appropriations for the Service of
the Post Office Department during the fiscal
Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen
hundred and sixty-seven, and for other Pur-
poses
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the United States OF America in
Congress assembled, That the following sums be
and the same hereby, appropriated for the
service Of the Post Office Department for the
year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and
sixty-seven, out of any moneys in the treasury
arising from the revenues OF said department. in
conformity to the act of the second OF July, eigh
teen hundred and thirtysiX:
For transportation OF the mails, Gnland,) nine
million five hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For transportation of mails, Qoreign,) six hun
dred thousand dollars.
For ship, steamboat, and way letters, eight
thousand dollars.
For compensation to postmasters, four million
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For clerks for post offices, one million nine hun
dred and twenty thousand dollars.
For payment to letter-carricrs, six hundred and
forty thousand dollars.
For wrapping paper, one hundred thousand dol
lars.
For twine thirty thousand dollars.
For letter balances, six thousand dollars.
For compensation to blank agents and assis-
tants, eight 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 depreda,inns and special agents, one
hundred ClOQSanU dollars.
For mail bags, one hundred and thirty thousand
dollars.
For mail locks, keys, and stamps, thirty thou
sand dollars.
For payment of balances due to foreign coun-
tries, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars
For miscellaneous payments, three hundred
and twenty thousand dollars.
To enable the superintendent of the Naval OBJ
servatory to carry out the object of Senate reso-
luton of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred
and thirtysiX for report OF Isthmus routes to the
Pacific fifteen hundred dollars
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the TO,
lowing sums, or so much thereof may be nc
cessary, be, and the same are hereby, apprOpria-
ted for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen
hundred and sixty -seven, out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated.
For the mail steamship service between the
United States and Brazil, one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars: Provided, That this appropria-
ton shall take effect only when Brazil shall have
performed the condition on her part provided in
the law authorizing said service.
For the mail steamship service between San
Francisco, Japan, and China for six months en-
ding June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty
seven, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For the overland mail trans portation between
Atchison and Folsom, and for marine mail trans
portation between New York and California, nine
hundred thousand dollars.
SEC. B. And be it further enacted, That the
PoStmaster-General be, and he is hereby, authori-
zed to employ sailing vessels for the transporta-
ton OF the mails between the ports of the United
States and any foreign ports where the service
may be facilitated thereby, allowing and paving
therefor a compensation not exceeding the sea
hostages accruing on the mails conveyed.
SEC. f. And be it further enacted, That the
Postmaster-G General be, and is hereby required to
report to the Secretary of the Treasury annually
prior to the first day of November of each year
his estimate of the money required for the service
of the Post Office Department for the ensuing fis-
cal year; which estimate shall be reported to Con
gress 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 ii further enacted, That the bal
of the annrODrintioD nj
and dollars under the thirteenth section of an act
" to establish postal money order SYSTEM" ap-
proved May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and
sixty four which may remain unexpcnded at the
close of the current fiscal year, may be used as
far as Necessary to supply deficiencies in the rro-
ceeds of the money order system during the ifs
cal year commencing July first, eighteen hundred
and siXty-siX.
SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That all adj
vertsing, notices, and proposals for contracts for
the Post Office Department. and all advertisino
notices, and proposals for contracts for all the
Executive Departments of the Government re-
CURED by law to be published in the city of Wash
lngton, shall hereafter be advertised by publica-
non IN the two daily newspapers in the city of
no others: Provided, That the charges for such
publications shall not be higher than such as are
paid by ind viduals Tor advertising in said pa
pers: And provided also, That the same publica-
tons shall be made in each of sad papers equally
as to frequency, and that the circulation of such
papers shall be determined upon the tenth day of
June annually; and the publishers of all paners
competing for such advertising shall furnish a
sworn statement of their bona fde paid circuIa-
ton OF each regular issue for the preceding three
months; and shall in like manner certify under
oath that such circulation has not, during the said
three months, been increased by any gratuitous cir
culation, by reduction in price below the ordi-
nary and usual price of such papers, or by any
other means, for the purpose of obtaining the of
neal advertising: Provided, That the charge for
such advertising shall not be greater than is paid
for the same publications in other cities, or at a
higher rate than is paid by individuals Tor like ad-
vertising.
Approved, May IS, 1866.