Chapter CLXIV. making Appropriations for the Transportation of the United States Mail by Ocean Steamers and otherwise, during the Fiscal Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine
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Chap. CLXIV.— 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, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine.June 14, 1858. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be,Appropriations. 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, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine:
For transportation of the mails from New York to Liverpool, andMails from New York to Liverpool.Proviso when the Collins line fails. back, three hundred and forty-six thousand five hundred dollars; and it is hereby provided that there be paid to the Post-Office Department out of the Collins line said appropriation such sums as may be required to procure the transportation of the mails from New York to Liverpool, and back, on such days as the Collins line may fail to take them from New York.
For transportation of the mails from New York to New OrleansNew York to New Orleans and Chagres. and Charleston, Savannah, Havana, and Chagres, and back, two hundred and sixty-one thousand dollars. For transportation of the mails from Panama to California and Oregon,Panama to California and Oregon. and back, three hundred and twenty-eight thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For transportation of the mails between San Francisco, California, andSan Francisco and Olympia, Wash.
Ter. Olympia, Washington Territory, one hundred and twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. For transportation of the mails on Puget’s Sound, twenty-two thousandOn Puget’s Sound. four hundred dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That there be paid to the Post-OfficePayment to P. O. Department for past failures of the Collins line to perform service, and in case said line fails subsequently so to do.1857, ch. 113, § 1.*Ante*, p. 248. Department, out of the appropriation of three hundred and forty-six thousand five hundred dollars granted by the first section of the act of third March, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, “for transportation of the mails from New York to Liverpool, and back,” the sum of sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven dollars and seventy cents, for five outward trips from New York to Liverpool, to wit: on fourteenth February and eleventh April, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and thirteenth February, thirteenth March, and tenth April, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, when the Collins line failed to perform service; and that the further sum of thirty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be paid to the Post-Office Department, out of the appropriation aforesaid, to enable the Postmaster-General to procure the transportation of the mails from New York to Liverpool, and back, on the twenty-fourth April, the eighth and twenty-second May, and the fifth and nineteenth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, if the Collins line should fail to perform service on those days.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the following sums be, andP. O. Department. the same are hereby, appropriated, for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, out of any money in the treasury arising from the revenues of said department, in conformity to the act of the second of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six: For transportation of the mails from New York, by Southampton orNew York viá Southampton, &c., to Havre.
Cowes, to Havre, two hundred and thirty thousand dollars. For transportation of the mails between Charleston and Havana, fiftyCharleston and Havana. thousand dollars. For transportation of the mails across the Isthmus of Panama, one hundredIsthmus of Panama. thousand dollars. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That it shall not be *be* lawful for theP. M. General not to contract for carrying mails by sea for more than two years. Nor for other pay than the sea and inland postages.
Postmaster-General to make any steamship or other new contract for carrying the mails on the sea for a longer period than two years, nor for any other ship compensation than the sea and inland postages on the mails so transported. 365THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 165. 1858. Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* That the Postmaster-General be,P. M. General may cause the mails to be transported between the U. S. and foreign ports, by steamship, for the sea and U. S. inland postage, if by an American vessel; and for sea postage only, if by a foreign vessel; preference to be given to American steamships. and he is hereby, authorized, to cause the mails to be transported between the United States and any foreign port or ports, by steamship, allowing and paying therefor out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, if by an American vessel, the sea and United States inland postage, and if by a foreign vessel, the sea postage only, on the mails so conveyed: *Provided,* That the preference shall always be given to an American over a foreign steamship when departing from the same port for the same destination, within three days of each other.
Approved, June 14, 1858.