The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-09-08
IPunLlc-No 158.l


AN ACT making appropriations for the Fcr'
vice oflhe POST olHcr Drpar' menl during
the fiscal year ending June thirliOth, cigh
teen hundred and seventy one.
BE II caactcd By the Senate and House
Of Representatives Of tho United Sates q
Amcyieaia Congress assembled, That the
following suns be, and tho same are here
by, appropriated for the service Of the
Post Office Department for the year end.
ing June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and
scvonty.onC, ost Of auy moneys IN the
treasury arising from the revenues OF the
said department, in conformity to tho act
of the second Of July, eighteen hundred
and thirty.six:
For transportation Of tho mail inland
including pay of mail messengers, route
agents, mail route agents, local agents,
postal railway clerks, aud baggage mas
ters, thirteen million ivc hundred and six
thousand eight hundred anl ninciy.tbrec
dollars
For transportation Of tho foreign mail,
four hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For pay Of postmastess, 1--WE million dol
lars.
For pas ofSIerl:s in. post odisls, tive
= "a krnaffl hoRsaRd collars \
For pay q Letter. cariiG!s o6e.uiilliop tive
ehandred aud City thousand dollars.
For pay,of blink agents and assistants,
eight Thousand dollars
Formal depredations and special agents,
ouc hundred and twenty-five thousand dol
lars.
For postage stamps and envelopes, five
hundred and twenty thousand dolInrs:-
I'Ygi4ca, That no part Of this appropria
ton shall be expended for stamped envcl-
opes beyond n temporary supply sufficient
for use ill the first day Of October next
except to carry out cou;rocis hereafter to
be made with the lowest bidder according
to law upon slmpIes to be furnished by tho
Postmaster General.
For ship, steamboat, and way letters,
eight thousand two hundred dollars
For nail bugs aud mailbag catehers,
one hundred and forty thousand dollars.
For mail locks, keys, and stamps, forty
thousand dollars.
For wrapping paper, thirty five thou
sand dollars
For twiuc, thirty.fyo thousand dol
lars.
For lotter-balaucos, three thousand four
hundred dollars
For office furniture, two thousand FIVE
hundred dollars
For advertising, forty thousand dollars:
PyO0ic'ca, That no part Of the sum shall
be paid to any paper published in the Dis.
trict of Columbia for advertising mail
routet, except in Virginia ard Maryland
For miscellaneous payments, including
balances due foreign countries, and to
pcstmasters for rent, light, fuel, and incl
dental expenses, registered package, and
official envelopes, for postmasters. fees to
United States attorneys, marshals, and
clerks of court, eight hundred aad lifty
thousand dollars.
POr post route maps, twenty thousand
dollars.
For money transferred by postmas'ers
and deposited in the treasury on postage
receipts, one million dollars.
SIC .. AH1 be Il further taac'c3, That
the following sums, or so much thereof Us
may be necessary. be, and the same are
hereby, appropriated for The year ending
June thirti6th, eighteen hundred and sew
cnty.one, out Of any money in tho treas.
ury not otherwise appropriated, viz:
For steamship service between San
Francisco, Japan. and China, Ave hundred
thousand dollars.
For steamship service between the Uni.
tea States aud Brazil, one hundred aud
fifty thousand dollars.
For steamship service between San
Francisco aud the Sandwich Islands, sew.
.enty-Gyo thoussnd dollars.
Approved, July II. 1870.
[Public-No. 1854.
AN ACT to amend an act entitled IAN net
making appropriations TO supply deticiCucies