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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 10 STAT. · August 30, 1852 · Chapter CV

Chapter CV. *making Appropriations for the Transportation of the United States Mail by Ocean Steamers and otherwise, during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.* August 30, 1852. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o

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Chap. CV.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Transportation of the United States Mail by Ocean Steamers and otherwise, during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.* August 30, 1852. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the followingAppropriations. sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in tho Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three:
For transportation of the mails from New York to Liverpool andBetween New York and Liverpool. back, eight hundred and fifty-eight thousand dollars. For transportation of the mails from New York to New Orleans,Between New York and Chagres, &c. Charlestown, Savannah, Havana, and Chagres, and back, two hundred and ninety thousand dollars. For transportation of the mails from Panama to California and Oregon,Between Panama, California and Oregon. and back, three hundred and forty-eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the following sums be and the same are hereby appropriated for the service of the Post-Office Department, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, out of any moneys in the Treasury arising from the revenues of said Department, in conformity to the act of the second1836, ch. 270. of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six: For transportation of the mails in two steamships, from New York,Between New York and Bremen and Havre. by Southampton, to Bremen and back, at one hundred thousand dollars for each ship, and in two steamships from New York, by Cowes, to Havre and back, at seventy-five thousand dollars for each ship, under the contract with the Ocean Steam Navigation Company of New York, in addition to an unexpended balance of former appropriations, two hundred and ninety-four thousand dollars.
For transportation of the mails between Charleston and Havana, underBetween Charleston and Havana. the contract with M. C. Mordecai, fifty thousand dollars. For transportation of the mails across the Isthmus of Panama, oneAcross Isthmus of Panama. hundred thousand dollars. Approved, August 30, 1852. Chapter CVI: to Amend an act entitled “An Act to provide for the better Security of the lives of Passengers on board of Vessels propelled in whole or in part by Steam,” and for other purposes. 10 Stat. 61 1852-08-30 Chapter CVI Little, Brown and Company. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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