Chapter LVI. *to extend the privilege of franking letters and packets to the Secretary of the Navy.*June 22, 1798. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That all letters and packets to or from the Secretary of the Navy, shall be received
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Chap. LVI.— An Act *to extend the privilege of franking letters and packets to the Secretary of the Navy.*June 22, 1798. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That all letters and packets to or from the Secretary of the Navy, shall be received and conveyed byAct of March 2, 1799, ch. 43, sec. 17. post, free of postage, under the like restrictions and limitations as are provided respecting letters and packets to or from the heads of the other departments of the government, by the nineteenth section of the act, entitled “An act to establish the post-office and post roads within the1794, ch. 23.
United States.” Approved, June 22, 1798.