Chapter CLXI. *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 fifty-seven.* Aug. 18, 1856. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Amer
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Chap. CLXI.— 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 fifty-seven.* Aug. 18, 1856. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the following sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven: 102 THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Sess, I. Ch. 162. 1856. Collins’ line.For transportation of the mails from New York to Liverpool, and hack, eight hundred and nineteen thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided,* Notice of discontinuance of extra compensation.That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed to give the notice provided in the first section of the act entitled “An act to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the 1852, ch. 66.Vol. x. p. 22.thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two,” approved the twenty-first July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, to terminate the arrangements for the additional allowance for the transportation of the United States mail between New York and Liverpool in the Collins line of steamers as therein provided.
Havana line.For transportation of the mails from New York to New Orleans, Charleston, Savannah, Havana, and Chagres, and back, two hundred and sixty-one thousand dollars. Pacific lines.For transportation of the mails from Panama to California and Oregon, and back, three hundred and twenty-eight thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. Between New Orleans and Vera Cruz.For carrying out the contract entered into by the Post-Office Department under the provisions of the act approved thirtieth August, one 1852, ch. 105.Vol. x, p. 61.thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, establishing a tri-monthly mail by steam vessels between New Orleans and Vera Cruz, via Tampico, sixty-nine thousand seven 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-seven, out of any moneys in the treasury arising from the revenues of said department, in conformity to the act of the second 1886. ch. 270.Vol. v. p. 80.of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six: Bremen line.For transportation of the mails, in two steamships, from New York, 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 line.Havre, and back, at seventy-five thousand dollars for each ship, under the contract with the Ocean Steam Navigation Company of New York, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
From Charleston to Havana.For transportation of the mails between Charleston and Havana, a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars. Isthmus of Panama.For transportation of the mails across the isthmus of Panama, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. Approved, August 18, 1856. Chapter CLXII: making Appropriations for the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Expenses of Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven. 11 Stat. 102 1856-08-18 Chapter CLXII 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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Chapter CLXI
*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 fifty-seven.* Aug. 18, 1856. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Amer
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