The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-07-05


For furniture and repairs, and packing boxes for
members, ten thousand dollars.
For stationery fifteen thousand dollars forthe fiscal
year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and six
| ty-sx.
Approved, June s, 1866.
| [PUBLIC-No OIL
| AN ACT to amend the postal laws.
| Belt enacted By the Senate and House of Repre-
se7tGtiUes 0ftt9 United States of america an Con-
Qress assembled, That from and after the first day of
July, eighteen hundred and sixty-six prepaid and
free letters shall be forwarded at the request of the
party addressed from one post office to another with
out additional postage charge; and returned dead
letters shall be restored to the writers thereoffree of
Sec 2 And be HJurtter enacted, That the tenth
section of the act entitled An act to establish sala
ries for posmasters, and for other PURPOSES ap-
proved July one, eighteen hundred and sixty-four ::
and so much of the twentyeghth section of the act
entitled An act to amend the laws relating to the
Post Office Department., approved March three,
| eighteen hundred and sixty-three as requires post
age to be charged at the prepaid rate TO be collected
on the return delivery letters Endorsed with re-
quest for their return the writer's be- and the same
are hereby, repealed and all letters bearing such
Endorsement shall hereafter be returned to the wri-
| tiers thereof without additional postage charge.
| Sec. 3 and be it FURTHER enQcted That the third
section of the act entitled IAN act to establish pos
tai money-order system, approved May seventeen,
eighteen hundred and sixty-four be, and the same
is hereby, amended so as to authorize the issuing OF
money order not to exceed fifty dollars and that
the charge fee for an order for sum not exceed
! ing twenty dollars shall be twenty-five cents.
Sec. 4. And be ii further e9d cted, That money
order shall be valid and payable when presented to
! the deputy postmaster on whom it is drawn within
one year after its date but for no longer PERIOD and
| in case of the loss of a money-order duplicate
thereof shall be issued without charge, the app
cation of the remitter payee, who shall make the
required proofs; and posmasters at all money -ordeI
offices are hereby authorized and required to admin
lister to the applicant applicants in such cases the
required oath or affirmation free of charge.
Sec 5. And be aIttrther enacted That all railroad
companies carrying the mails of the United States
Irl,o OH
which they may over their roads, all such print
ed matter as the Postmaster General shall from time
to time, direct to be transported thereon with the
persons in charge of the mails designated by the
Post Office Department for that purpose.
Sec g. and be ii FURTHER enacted That if any
person persons shall wilfully and maliciously in
lure deface, destroy any maiable matter deposi-
tied in any letterbox pillarboX, other receiving
boxes established by authority Of the Postmaster
General of the United States for the safe deposit
of matter for the mails for delivery or shall will
fully aid and assist i'll injurng such maiable matter
so deposited aforesaid, every such offender being
thereof duly convicted shall for every such offence
be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or be
imprisoned not more than three years. at the discre
Sec. Z. And be aJurther enacted That whenever
it shall become expedient in the opinion of the
Postmaster General, to substitute different kind of
postage stamp for those now i'll use, he shall be, and
is hereby, authorized TO modify the existing con-
tract tor the manufacture of postage stamps so as to
allow to the contractors sum sufficient to cover the
Increased expenses, if any, Of manufacturing the
stamps so substituted.
Sec. s. ind be it tasfthef endcted That section
two of the act entitled IAN act to establish salaries
for posmasters. and for other purposes approved
July one, eighteen hundred and siXty-four. be
amended by adding the following PrOotded, That
when the quarterly returns of any postmaster of the
third, fourth, griffith class show that the salary al
lowed is ten per centum less than it would
be on the basis of commissions under the act Of
eighteen hundred and fifteen hundred and fftyfoul
fixing compensation, then the Postmaster Genera
shall review and re-adjust under the provisions Of
said section.
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted That whenever
the Postmaster General shall require special agents
ofthe Post Office Department to collect or disburst
the public moneys accruing from postages such
special agent or agents, when employed, shall
prior to entering upon such duty, give bond in
such sum, in such form; and with such security as
the Post Master General may approve.
Approved June II, 1866.
/ [PUBMC-No GS.
AN ACA making appropriations for the truction
preservation, and repairs of certain Notifications
| and other works of defence, for the year ending
June thirty eighteen hundred and sxty-se ven
Be it enacted By the SeDdte and House of Repre
sentdtiUes of the United States Of Anericd IN Con
greSS assembled That the following sums be. and
they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money il
structon preservation, and repairs of certain fort
cations and other works of defence for the wear end
ing the thirteth of jun eighteen hundred and sixty
seven:
For Fort Wayne, near Detroit, Michigan, fifty
thousand dollors.
For Fort Ontario, oswego, New York, fifty thou
For Fort Montgomery, at outlet of Lake Cham
plain New York, fifty thousand dollars.
For Fort Scanned, Portland, Maine, thirty-fv(
thousand dollars.
For Fort George, on Hog Island ledge, Portland
Maine, fifty thousand dollars.
For Fort Popham, Kennebeck river, Maine, fifty
thousand dollars.
For Fort Constitution, Portsmouth, New Hamp
shire, seventy five thousand dollars
For Fort Winthrop, Boston, Massachusetts. thirt,
thousand dollars.
For Fort Warren, Boston, Massachusetts, twenty
thousand dollars.
For sea-wall at Great Brewster's Island. Boston
Harbor Massachusetts,, seventy-five thousand dol
lars.
For sea-walls on Deer and Lovelrs Islands Bos
ton Harbor, Massachusetts, ffty-thousand dollars
For Fort at entrance of New Bedford harbor
MassaGhusetts, thirty thousand dollars
For Fort Schuyler, East river, New York thirty
thousand dollars.
For fort at Wiletts Point, opposite Fort Schuyler
New York, fifty thousand dollars
| For repairs at Fort Hamilton New York thirty
thousand dollars. -
For fort on site of Fort Tompkins, Staten Island
New YORK, fifty thousand dollars
For fort at Sandy Hook, New Jersey fifty thou.
sand dollars '-'ON
For repairs of Fort Mifiin, near Philadelphia
twenty-five thousand dollars
For construction of permanent platforms for mod
ern cannon OF large caibre in existing Notifications
OF important harDors one hundred thousand dollars
| For repairs of fort Washington on the Potomac
river, twenty thousand dollars
For Fort Monroe, Hampton Roads, Virginia, thir-
| ty thousand dollars.
For Fort Taylor, Key West, Florida, one hundred
| thousand dollars W
thousand dollars. ~ ''7" my
For fort on Ship Island coast of Mississippi. ten
| thousand dollars PP-' w
For Fort Clinch, Amelia Island, Florida, fifty thou-
sand dollars. MY '0''
For tort at Fort Point San Francisco bay. Calfor-
MA, one hundred and twentyfv thousand dollars
FOR tort at Lime Point, California, seventy five
| thousand dollars. '' NV
- For Tort at Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bav
California, ninety thousand dollars ''
for survey OF northern and northwestern Lakes
including Lake Superior, fifty thousand dollars
For purchase of sites occupied and lands pro-
poseu 10 pc occupied for permanent deencea
ProVueu that no such purpose shall be made exceDt
upon the approval ofts expediency by the Secretafy
OF war; and the validity of title by the ATTORNEY Gen
eral, thirty-five thousand dollars N'l
Approved, June - 1866