, 1868-07-03

Passsd at hs Second Session Of f1s F0rhstk Con
gress.
[PUBLIo--No. 90
Az AcT making appropriations for the service
Of the Post Office Department during the fiscal
year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred
and sixty-nine.
Be IL enacted BY the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentafpes Of the United States Of Ameriea IN Con-
gress assembled, That the following sums be- and
the same are hereby, appropriated for the service
Of the Post Office Department for the year ending
June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine,
out Of any moneys in the treasury arising from
the revenues Of the said department, 10 conform
ity to the act Of the second Of July, eighteen
hundred and thirty-six;
For inland mail transportation, including pay
of route agents, postal clerks, and mail messsns
gers, ten million FIVE hundred and twenty. .six
thousabd dollars.
For foreign mail transportation, four hundred
end twenty thousand dollars, under the act apS
proved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty
Eve, entitled "An ctrelating to the postal laws"
For ship, Steamboat, and way letters, eight
thousand dollars.
For compensation to postmaster, four million
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For clerks for post Offices, two million dollars.
For payments to lettercarriers, seven hundred
and fifty thousand dollars.
For twine, ffteen thousand dollars.
For letter balances, three thousand Eve hun
dred dollars
For compensation to blank agents and assist,
ants, eight thousand Eve hundred dollars.
For Office furniture, three thousand dollars.
For advertising, fifty thousand dollars Pro.
vidsd, That no part Of this sum shall be paid TO
any papers published in the District of Columbia
except for advertising mail routes In Virginia
aud Maryland.
For postage stamps and stamped envelopes,
four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For mail depredations and special agents, one
hundred thousand dollars.
For mail locks, keys, and stamps, thirty thou
sand dollars.
For payment of balances to foreign countries,
three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For miscellaneous payments, including allow
auces to postmasters for rent light, fuel, fixtures,
stationery, envelopes, and so forth, three hun,
dred and seventy five thousand dollars.
SEC. 2 And be IL further enacted, That the
following sums, or so much thereof as may be
necessary, be, and the same are hereby, appro-
priated for the year ending June thirtieth, eighs
teen hundred and si1ty-nine, out of any money
in the treasury not otherwise appropriated:
For steamship service between San Francisco,
Japan, and China, FIVE hundred thousand dollars.
For steamship service between the United
States and Brazil, one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars.
For steamship service between San Francisco
and the Sandwich Islands, seventy FIVE thousand
dollars.
For preparing and publishing post-route maps,
twenty thousand dollars.
SEC. 3, And be IL further enacted That if the
revenues of the Post Office Department shall be
insufficient to meet the appropriations of this act
then the sum of eight hundred thousand dollars,
or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and
the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out
OF any money iu the treasury not otherwise ap-
proPrated, to supply deficiencies 10 the revenue
OF the Post Office Department for the year end
og thirtieIh of June, eighteen hundred and sixty
nine.
Approved March 80, 1868.