Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-08-21
(OFFICIAL,I
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passsd al fhs First ssssfon OF the Forty.
third C0HTrsss.
GENERAL NATuRR-No, 90


AN ACT making appropriations for the service
of the Post Office Department for the fiscal
year ending June thirheth, eighteen hundred
and seyenty.hve, and for other purposes.
Be IL enacted 6y the Senate and House of Repre-
seRtatires If the United States of America IN Con-
gTeSs assembled, That the following sums be,
and the same are hereby, Appropriated for the
service Of the Pcst-Ofiice Department for the
year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred
and seventy five, out of any money in the Trea-
sury arising from the revenues of said Depart
ment, IN conformity TO the act OF July second,
eighteen hundred and thirty-six, as follows:
For inland mail transportation, sixteen nil
Ion four hundred thousa nj dollars.
For pay OF mail messengers, six hundred and
f0rfy-three thousand i've hundred and thirty
three dollars.
For pay of oute-sgents, nine hundred and
twenty niue thousand and thirty i've dollars.
For pay of mail route messengers, one b IN
dred ani sixty Thousand dollars.
For pay OF local agents, one hundred and ten
thousand three hundred and eighty-three dol
lars
For pay of railway post-ofice clerks, one mil
lion three hundred and twenty thousand aud
For pay OF baggsge-masters, one thousand
dollars.
For foreign-mail transportation, three hun
bred and twenty thousand dollars.
For ship, steamboat, and way letters, seven
thousand i've hundred dollars.
For pay of postmssters, six million five hun.
cred thousand dollars.
For pay Of clerks for post-offices, three mil
lion two hundred ana ifty thousand dollars.
For pay Of letter-carrieIs, one million and
nine hundred thousand dollars: Procided, That
hereafter letter-carrieTs shall not be employed
for the free delivery of Matchmaker in to Sns
and cities whose population within their cor
porate limits, as shown by the last report OF the
national census or by any subsequent census
taken in pursuance OF State statute, or by Or
der OF the mayor and common council of such
town or city, shall be less than thirty thousand;
but this proviso shall not affect the free deliv-
cry in towns and cities where it is now estab.
Eshed. And for the more efficient management
OF the tree-deiirery system, the Postmaster
General may designate q fourth class clerk TO
act as superintendent OF free delivery in the
Post Office Department at an annual salary OF
two thousand five hundred dollars; and for this
purpose the sum of seven hundred dollars Is
hereby appropriated out of any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
For wrappiBg-paper, twenty-seven thousand
dollars.
For Irvine, forty-eight thousand dollars.
For letter balances, three thousand dollars.
For Office furniture, six thousand i've hun
For advertising, eighty thousand dollars:
PTorided, That hereafter no payment shall be
made to any newspaper published in the Dis.
trlct OF Columbia Tor advertising any other
routes than those In Virginia and Maryland.
For manufacture OF adhesive postage stamps,
one hundred and eighteen thousand six hum
dIed and siXty-seyen dollars.
For stamped envelopes and wrappers, five
hundred ard thirtyHye thousand four hundred
and twenty -four dollars: Prouidsd, That here
alter no envelope, as furnished by the Govern
ment, sbau contain any lithograp hing and en-
craving. nor any printing except printed re-
quest to return the letter TO the writer.
For pay Of distributing agents and assistants
ten thousand two hundred dollars.
For manufacture OF postal cards, one hundred
and sixty-eight thousand two hundred and
seventy dollars.
| For paw of agents and assistants to distribute
postal cards, five thousand six hundred dollars.
For payments on account OF m ail-depredA-
tons and for special agents, one hundred and
sixty thousand dollars.
For mail bags snd maii-b bag catchers, one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For mail-loeks aud keys, fifty thousand dol
lars.
For pcstmsrking and canoeing stamps, nine
Thousand dollars.
For preparing and publishing post-rOute maps,
For balance due foreign countries, two hun
| dred and sixty thousand dollars.
| For rent OF post-oficss, three hundred and
For fuel for post offices, one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars.
| Fol. light for ost-onices, one hundred and
For stationery and miscellaneous items, sixty
thousand dollars.
For registered package envelopes and scale,
iorty two thousand six hundred and eighty dol
For cficiaI envelopes for postmasters, sixty
thousand dollars
| thousand Eve hundred and eighty fve doilars.
For fees to msrshals, attorneys, and clerks OF
courts, seven thousand ave hundred dollars-
and variants, three Thousand dollars.
For miscellaneous items, two thousand fve
SIC. 2 That the following sums, or 20 much
thereof a. may be necessary, be, and the sane
are hereby, appropriated for the year ending
June thiriieth. eighteen hundred and seventy.
otherwise appropriated, namely:
For steamship service between San Francis
co, Japan, and China, frs hundred uousand