Wilmington daily commercial., 1874-08-18
GENERAL NAruHK-No. so.l

Approved. June 20. 1874.
GENERAL NArURK-No. 9O1
AN ACT making appropriations for the service Of
the Post ONCE Department for the fiscal year end
ing June thrtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy
nve, and for other purposes
Be enacted by tie Senate and Houss Of Repre- senta-
fires Of the Unfei States Of America in Con1ress A.
,saJied, That the following sums be, and the same
are hereby appropriated for the service OF the Post
ONCE Department for the year ending June thlr-
eth eighteen hundred and seventy i've, out of any
money In the treasury arising from the revenues OF
said Department, In conformity 10 the act OF July
second eighteen hundred and thlrty-slx, w fol-
lows:
For inland mail transportation, sixteen million
four hundred thousand dollars.
For pay OF mail messengers, six hundred and for
v three Thousand nve hundred and thirty three dol
lars
For pay of route agents, nine hundred and twenty
nine thousand and thirty Ave dollars
For pay OF mail route messengers one hundred
and sixty thousand dollars
For pay OF local agents. one hundred and ten
thousand three hundred and eighty three dollars.
For pay OF railway post oflco clerks, one million
three hundred and twenty thousand and fourteen
dollars
For pay Of baggage masters one thousand dol
For foreign mail transportation, three hundred and
twenty live thousand dollars
For ship, steamboat, pnd way letters seven tboti-
sand 1--WE hundred dollars
f0r pay OF postmlsters, six million five hundred
thousand dollars
hundred and fifty thousand dollars
For pay OF letter carriers, one million and nine
hundred thousand dollars: Prorided, That hereafter
letter carriers shall not be employed for the free de-
live yOf mail matter IN towns and cities whose pop-
ulatlOn within their corporate limits as shown nv
the last report OF the national census or by any
subsequent census taken in pursuance to State sta
tute or by order OF the mayor and common council
oi such town or city shall be less than thirty thou
hverl III towns and cities where 1t is now establish
el And for the more efficient management of the
neiVery system, the Postmaster General may desiR-
nate fourth class clerk TO act superintendent OF
iree delivery In the Post ONCE Department at an
annual salary Of two thousand five hundred dollars
aiiu ioI ths purpose the sum OF seven hundred dol
ars s hereby appropriated out OF any money in the
Treasury moi otherwise appropriated
lars ~
For twlne, forty eight thousand dollars
rOr letter balances, three thousand dollars
rof once furniture, six thousand FIVE hundred dol
For Advertising eighty thousand dollars. pyopised
INN hereafter no payment shall be made to any
newspaper published in the District OF Columbia for
and Maryland. s'
for manufacture of adhesive postage STAMPS, one
aullren and eighteen thousand six hundred and
Sixty seven dollars
for stamped envelopes and wrappers, 1--WE hun
dre1 and thirty five thousand four hundred and
meny lOuT dollars Irouided, Tkat hereafter no en-
selupe, a5 furnished by the Government, shall con-
lah any llthographlng and engraving nor any print
s except printed request to return the letter to
for pay OF distributing agents and assistants, ten
thousand TWO hundred dollars
sor tne manufacture OF postal cards, one hundred
dollars ~ '~-''
or pay OF agents and assistants to distribute pos
'a caIus, TWO thousand SIX hundred dollars
for M payihent on account OF mail depredatons and
dollars N' AAN 'iN'J '"ou'"hu
a, rot a bags and mail bag catchers, ons hundred
~ui elgnty thousand dollars
sand dollars ~
for preparing and publishing most route mana
thlIty thousand dollars
ana fo1 balances due foreign countries, two hundred
Ald xty thousand dollars
=, fOr rent OF post offices three hundred and ffty
lhnusand dollars ''
nrOrel %r inel for post onices one hundred and nifty
f9r light for post oices, one hundred and sixty
thousand dollars
For stationery and miscellaneous itan,g sixt,
lhOusand dollars ' -'
For registered packape enveIouas ond aeata tnrtv
'~1 thousand six hundred and eighty dollars
sanS ,osi Ulcsi envelopes for postmasters sixty thou
,, for envelopes for returning dead letters. foul
"i9usahd gns ma iye hundred and eighty fye dollars
courts ices 10 marshals, attorneys, and clerks
''pnlts, seven thousand i've hundred dollars
u TOT engraving printing, and binding drafts ant
variants, three thousand dollars
'lred dollars wv "'' NV nun
,shV = That the following sums, or 30 much there
vi as may be Necessary, be- and the same are bereb
aightann h, lot the year ending June thiI tieth
y s,eeh m ~ hundred and seventy five, out OF any mon
namely NA""e "PP''p'ia'o"
,, ror steamship service between San Francisco ia
pIa,, anu China. five hundred thousand dol lars
on, ~" steamship service beteen the United state
lara niazl, one hundrdd and nifty thousand dol
hp Or steamship service between San Francisco an,
b,rs 'anuwlch Islands, seventy five thousand dol
For 01icial postaoe ntanno nina h,n,so,, 49,, 10,
thousand dollars -P'' """s i'ii''ieu an" nv
pos n ,e purchase of law books for the use OF tn
SSc iey ~ department, two thousand dollars
nar, o. Inat the revenues of the Post Onice De
a,in ent snail be insufficient to meet the appropr
ionr ue py thls act, then the sum OF two millio
d, Tn, IuhuTed and ninety seven thousand eight hun
,eo nss and forty two dollars. or 80 much thereof a
nTn' ay We necessary be- and the same is hereby al
snry ma, 70 he paid out of any money in the Tres
for III n une revenue OF the Post ONCE Departmen
ana e ssy year ending June thlrteth eighteen hundre
ail seventy five
stsio: skc That the Revised Statutes Of the Unite
anr sali not be published by the United States
irsrv vmspaper, anything in existing laws to the col
81 ~ ho'Wlihstandlng
esh,a O. That on and after the first day Of Januar,
All ne hundred and seventy five, ali newspapei
onice ~ n,,,s publications mailed from know
TO reguiarp puuhcauon or news agency, and addresse
he chr hsular subscribers news agents. postage sha
ami rg gel at the following rates: on n wspapel
frequentIv M punncations, Issued weekly and moi
mimi nry tnan once week, two cents for eac
re"uan, NJ traction thereof aud on those issued LEI
ponnI Insy ny tnan once W, elk, three cents for eaC
10 th,a OF or traction thereof: Propid,d That nothn
nlnetv S1 @ snali be held to change or amend sectC
rons,,e hine OF the act entitled ''An act to revls
tho thPate PaS, ms and amend the statutes relating
eghteen p,,,ee Department" approved June eight
ssseen sn hundred and seventy two
eghteen a. On and after the first day of Januar
celnt ~ s,u hundred and seventy i've, upon the
Of t6e o,ic sca newspaper and periodical publication
hulS All v,ice OF MA ling, they shall be weighed
stam ana postage paid thereon by specjal adhes
GienepaIIo oe devised and furnished by the Postmast
or In th, which shall he affixed to such matte
orandnm sack ns containing the same, or upon mer
master u VI such mailing, or otherwise, as the POI
regulation '' "oin 'iihe 70 time, proViue