Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-09-25
TGENERAL NATURE-No. 90

GENERAL NATURE-No. 90
AN ACT making appropriations for the
service of the Post Olice Department for
the fiscal year ending June thirtieth,
eighteen hundred and seventy-tivc, and
for other purposes.
BE IL enacted by The Senate and House Of
Representatives of the United S.dteS y
Imericd IN Congress assembled, That the
following sums be, and the Same are here
by, appropriated for tho service of the
Post Office Department for the year end
ing June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and
seventy-ive. out of any money in the
Treasury arising from the revenues of said
Department, in conformity to the act Of
July second, eighteen hundred and thirty
six as follows:
For inland mail transportation, sixteen
million four hundred thousand dollars.
For pay of mail messengers, six hundred
and forty-three thousand five hundred and
thirty-three dollars.
For pay of route-agents, nine hundred
aud twenty thousand and thirty-tive
dollars.
For pay of mal-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-office clerks,
one million three hundred anu twenty
Thousand and fourteen dollars.
For pay of baggage one thous-
and dollars.
For foreign-mail transportation, three
hundred and twenty five thousand dol
lars.
For ship, steamboat, and way letters,
seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For pay OF poslmasters, six million FIVE
hundred thousand dollars.
For pay of clerks for post-ofilces, three
million Two hundred aud fifty thousand
dollars.
For pay of letter carriers, one million
and nine hundred thousand dollars Pro-
Uided. That hereafter letter carriers shall
not be employed for the free delivery of
mail matter in towns and cities whose
population within their corporate limits,
as shown by the last report of the national
census or by any subsequent census taken
in pursuance of State statute or by order OF
tie mayor and common council of such
town or city, shall be less than thirty
thousand but this proviso shall not affect
the free delivery in towns and cities where
it is now established. And for the more
efficient management of the free delivery
system, the Postmaster-General may des-
ienate a fourth class clerk to act as superin-
tendcnt of free delivery in the Post-OfTice
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 ap-
propriated.
For ,wrapping-paper, twenty seven thou
sand dollars.
For Irvine, forty-eight thousand dollars
For letter balances, three thousand dol
lars.
For Office furniture, six thousand five
hundred dollars.
For advertising, eighty thousand dollars
Provided, That hereafter no payment shall
he made to any newspaper published in
the District of Columbia for advertising
any other routes than those in Virgins
and Maryland.
For manufacture of adhesive postage.
stamps, one hundred and eighteen thou
sand six hundred and siXty-seven dollars
For stamped envelopes and wrappers,
five hundred and thirty-tive thousand four
hundred and twenty-four dollars: Irovtd
ed, That hereafter no envelope, as furnish
ed by the Government, shall contain any
lthographing and engraving, nor any
printing except a printed request to re
Turn the letter to the writer.
For pay OF distributing agents and as
sistants, ten thousand two hundred dol
lars.
For manufacture of postal cards, on,
hundred and sixty-eight thousand two
hundred and seventy dollars.
For pay Of agents and assistants to dis
tribute postal cards, five thousand si1
hundred dollars.
For payments on account of mail depre
dations and for special agent, one hundred
and sixty thousand dollars.
For mail bags and mailbag catcbers
one hundred and eighty thousand dollars
For mail-locks and keys, fifty thoustnC
dollars.
For postmarking and canceling stamps
nine thousand dollars.
For preparing and publishing | Ost-rout
maps, thirty Thousand dollars.
For balances due foreign countries, twt
hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
For rent of post offices, three hundred
and fifty thousand dollars.
For fuel for post offices, one hundre,
and fifty Thousand dollars.
For light for post-otlices, enc hundred
and sixty thousand dollars.
For stationery, and miscellaneous items
SIXTY thousand dollars.
For registered package envelopes an
seals, fOrty-two thousand six hundred an
eighty dollars.
For official envelopes for postmasters
sixty thousand dollars.
For envelopes for returning dead letters
four thousand five hundred and eighty
five dollars.
For fees to marshals, attorneys, an
clerks of courts, seven thousand five hun
bred dollars.
For engraving, printing, and bndin
drafts and warrants, three Thousand dol
lars.
IOl hllSNtllailtOhH lltlIlS, TWO LnOuShIll
five hundred dollars.
SEC 2. That the following sums, or 5
much thereof as may be necessary, be, an
the same are hereby, appropriated for tn
year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hun
dred and seventy five, out of any none
in the Treasury not otherwise appropra
cd, namely:
For steamship service between San Frar
cisco, Japan, and China, five hundre
thousand dollars.
For steamship service between the Uni
ed States and Brazil, one hundred and fl
ty thousand dollars,
For steamship service between Sa
Francisco and the Sandwich Islands, seI
enty-tive thousand dollars.
For official postage stamps, nine hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars.
For the purchase of law books for the us
of the Post-ofice Department, two thou
sand dollars.
SEC. 3. That If of the revenues Of the p ,sl
Otfice Department shall be insufficient I
meet the appropriations made by this az
then the sum of five million four hundre
aud ninety-seven thousand eight hundre
and forty-two dollars, or so much thereC
as may be necessary, be, and the same