Chapter XCVII. *to provide for a tri-monthly Mail from New Orleans to Vera Cruz, via Tampico, and back, in Steam-Vessels.*August 30, 1852. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Contract for a tri-monthly mail from N
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Chap. XCVII.— An Act *to provide for a tri-monthly Mail from New Orleans to Vera Cruz, via Tampico, and back, in Steam-Vessels.*August 30, 1852. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Contract for a tri-monthly mail from N. Orleans to Vera Cruz, via Tampico, authorized.That the Postmaster-General be and he is hereby authorized and directed to enter into a contract for a term of five years, and for a sum not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars a year, with such person or persons as may offer sufficient and satisfactory security, after due public notice, for the transportation of the mails of the United States, upon the best terms for the United States, three times a month from New Orleans, via Tampico to Vera Cruz, and back, in steam-vessels of not less than eight hundred tons burden, of the best form of construction, adapted to the navigation of the southern waters, the same to be ready in the shortest possible time.
Approved, August 30, 1852.