Chapter CXIII. making Appropriation 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-eight
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Chap. CXIII.— An Act making Appropriation 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-eight. March 3, 1857. *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 Appropriations for mail steamers.the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight:
For transportation of the mails from New York to Liverpool and back, To Liverpool.three hundred and forty-six thousand five hundred dollars. To New Orleans, Charleston, Savannah, Havana, and Chagres.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. From Panama to California and Oregon.For transportation of the mails from Panama to California and Oregon, and back, three hundred and twenty-eight thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 114, 115. 1857. 249 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-eight, out of any moneys in the treasury arising from the revenues of said department, in conformity to the act of the second of1836, ch. 270.Vol. v. p. 80. July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six:
For transportation of the mails between Charleston and Havana, aCharleston and Havana. sum not exceeding fitly thousand dollars. For transportation of the mails across the Isthmus of Panama, oneIsthmus of Panama. hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. Approved, March 3, 1857.