Chapter CXI. making Appropriations for the Service of the Post-Office Department during the fiscal fear ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and for other Purposes. August 31, 1852. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in

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Chap. CXI.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Service of the Post-Office Department during the fiscal fear ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and for other Purposes.* August 31, 1852. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Appropriations.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 the said department, in conformity to 1836, ch. 270.the act of the second of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and for other purposes, viz.:

For transportation of the mails, four million one hundred thousand dollars. For compensation to postmasters, including the additional compensation 1861, ch. 20.authorized by the sixth section of the act to reduce and modify the rates 111of postage, approved third March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one,1851, ch. 20. two million and twenty-two thousand dollars. For compensation to postmasters, being the difference between the sum of one million eight hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars appropriated for the fiscal year ending thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, and the estimated amount of their compensation for the same year, including the additional allowances authorized by the sixth section of the act of third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, reducing the rates of postage, one hundred and forty-seven1851, ch. 20. thousand dollars.

For clerks in the offices of postmasters, four hundred and thirty thousand dollars. For ship, steamboat, and way-letters, forty thousand dollars. For wrapping-paper, forty thousand dollars. For office furniture, for the offices of postmasters, nine thousand dollars. For advertising, seventy thousand dollars. For mail-bags, fifty thousand dollars. For blanks, forty-five thousand dollars. For mail-locks, keys, and stamps, ten thousand dollars. For mail depredations and special agents, forty-five thousand dollars:

Also twenty-five hundred dollars, out of which the Postmaster-General is directed to pay sixteen hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-sixPayment to the late Assistant P. General. cents, to the late Assistant Postmaster-General, for his services performed by direction of the Postmaster-General subsequent to the first of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, when his resignation took effect, in the organization of the mail service in California, approved by the joint resolution “to legalize certain contracts for the transportationPost, p. 145. of the mails in California and Oregon,” approved January the thirteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and the residue, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be applied to settle and pay his expenses.

For miscellaneous items, ninety thousand dollars. For postage stamps, twenty thousand dollars. For the publication of twenty-five thousand copies of the laws and regulations of the Post-Office Department, and for arrears on the table of post-offices, seven thousand dollars. To enable the Postmaster-General to contract for the transporting theSteamboat mail from Lake House to New Iberia. mail by steamboat from the Lake House to New Iberia, on the route six thousand one hundred and sixteen from Donaldsonville to Washington, in the State of Louisiana, seven thousand dollars.

Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the Postmaster-General be,Resident agents on Isthmus of Panama. and he is hereby, authorized, whenever he shall deem it discreet, to dispense with the route agents now sent with the mails from New York to California, and in lieu thereof to appoint not more than two resident agents to take charge of the mail service across the Isthmus of Panama, and to allow said agents for salary and personal expenses not exceeding three thousand dollars per year for each of such agents, which shall be paid out of the amount annually appropriated for the transportation of the mails.

Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the salary of the routeSalary of route agents. agents be, and the same is hereby, increased to one thousand dollars per annum. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That the Postmaster-General be,Mail service between N. Orleans and Gulf ports. and he is hereby authorized, if he shall deem it proper, to advertise for and establish service upon the regular mail-route between New Orleans and certain Gulf ports of Florida. Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* That the Postmaster-General isAdditional mail trip on the Havre, and on the Bremen line of steamers. authorized to contract with the Ocean Steam Navigation Company for one additional trip on the Havre line, and one additional trip on the 112THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS.

Sess. I. Ch. 112. 1852.Bremen line, until the expiration of their existing contract, receiving and delivering mails at Southampton, Cowes, or Plymouth, as the Post-master-General may direct, according to such schedule as shall be prescribed by the Postmaster-General, in order thereby to maintain through such lines, and the Collins line, a regular weekly communication by American mail steamers between the United States and the Kingdom of Compensation therefor.Great Britain and Ireland; but the compensation for such additional trip shall not exceed the compensation allowed for each trip under the said existing contract: *And provided, further,* That the Postmaster-General shall Change of terminus from Havre to Antwerp.be, and he is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to negotiate with the contractors, for changing the terminus of the Havre line from Havre to Antwerp, in Belgium, and to make an agreement for such change, if he shall think proper, but the increased compensation to be allowed for such change shall be limited to a *pro raid* allowance for the increased distance.

Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted,* That the bridges across the Certain bridges at Wheeling, declared lawful structures.Ohio River at Wheeling, in the State of Virginia, and at Bridgeport, in the State of Ohio, abutting on Zane’s Island, in said river, are hereby declared to be lawful structures in their present position and elevation, and shall be so held and taken to be, any thing in any law or laws of the United States to the contrary notwithstanding. Sec. 7. *And be it further enacted,* That the said bridges are declared Said bridges made post-roads, and not to be interfered with.to be and are established post-roads for the passage of the mails of the United States, and that the Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Company are authorized to have and maintain their said bridges at their present site and elevation; and the officers and crews of all vessels and boats navigating said river, are required to regulate the use of their said vessels and boats, and of any pipes or chimneys belonging thereto, so as not to interfere with the elevation and construction of said bridges.

Approved, August 31, 1852. Chapter CXII: making Appropriations for Light-houses, Light-boats, Buoys, &c., and providing for the Erection and Establishment of the same, and for other Purposes. 10 Stat. 112 1852-08-31 Chapter CXII 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. Digitization Vendor 2025-12-24 32 2 public

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