Chapter CXXXI. *making Appropriations for the Service of the Post-Office Department during the fiscal Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.* June 15, 1860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the followi
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Chap. CXXXI.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Service of the Post-Office Department during the fiscal Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.* June 15, 1860. *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 38 THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 131. 1860.and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred 1830, ch, 270.
Vol. v. p. 80.and sixty-one, out of any moneys in the treasury arising from the revenues of the said department, in conformity to the act of the second of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six: Transportation of the mails. Pay of route agents. [Repealed, 1861, ch. 83. *Post,* p. 204.] For transportation of the mails within the jurisdiction of the United States, and on such routes along the coasts of the United States as do not touch at a foreign port, nine million six hundred and forty-four thousand five hundred and ninety eight dollars; *Provided, however,* That the maximum compensation to be paid to route agents shall not exceed eight hundred dollars per year.
Compensation of Postmasters. Delivery of pickages of newspapers, &c. For compensation to postmasters, two million six hundred and fifty-four thousand dollars, *Provided, however,* That where packages of newspapers or periodicals are received at any post-office directed to one address, and the names of the club of subscribers to which they belong, with the postage for a quarter in advance, shall be handed to the postmaster, he shall deliver the same to their respective owners.
Clerks to postmasters. For clerks in the offices of postmasters, eight hundred thousand dollars. For ship, steamboat, and way letters, twenty thousand dollars. For office furniture in the post-offices, four thousand dollars. For advertising, seventy thousand dollars. For mail bags, fifty-five thousand dollars. For paper required for printing blanks, seventy thousand dollars. For printing blanks, twelve thousand dollars. For wrapping paper, fifty-two thousand dollars. For mail locks, keys, and stamps, fifteen thousand dollars.
Mail depreciations and special agents. No special agent to have over $1600 per annum. For mail depredations and special agents, seventy thousand dollars, *Provided,* That from and after the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, not more than sixteen hundred dollars per annum shall be allowed to any special agent of the Post-Office Department as compensation for his services: *And provided further,* That the fourth section of an 1854, ch. 60, § 4, (vol. X. p. 297) repealed.act entitled “An act to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four,” approved May thirty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, be and the same is hereby repealed.
Miscellaneous. For miscellaneous payments, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. *Provided,* That it shall be the duty of the Postmaster-Genera I to furnish to Congress, in his annual report on the first Monday of December next, Detailed statements to be furnished Congress, not to be used in defence of certain suits.and of each and every year thereafter, a detailed statement of the expenditures made under the head of “miscellaneous payments;” and that it shall not be lawful to use any of the money hereby appropriated for the defence of suits brought against officers of the Post-Office Department for malfeasance, misfeasance or nonfeasance in office, or for acts committed by them under color of law, and in derogation of the rights of citizens.
Postage stamps, &c. For postage stamps and stamped envelopes, one hundred thousand dollars. Foreign balances. For payments of balances due to foreign countries, three hundred thousand dollars. Delivery of letters by carriers at one cent each. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That from and after the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty, the charge for the delivery of letters by carriers, shall be not exceeding one cent each, the whole of which Boxes at outside stations in suburbs of cities.shall be paid to them for their services.
And the Postmaster-General may establish boxes for the delivery of letters at the outside stations in the suburbs of cities, provided it can be done without loss to the department *Post,* pp. 703, 704.or injury to the service; and any net revenue derived from the rent of said boxes may be applied by him towards the payment of the expense of collecting letters or towards the increase of the carrier’s fund, as he may deem just or equitable. THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 131, 132, 134. 1860. 39 Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That if the revenues of the Post-Office Deficiency appropriation, if revenue is insufficientDepartment shall be insufficient to meet the appropriations of this act, then the sum of five million seven thousand four hundred and twenty-four dollars and seventy-five cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the revenue of the Post-Office Department for the year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That the Postmaster-General be, and Foreign mails.he is hereby, authorized to cause the mails to be transported between the United States and any foreign port or ports, or between any port of the United States to any other port of the United States, touching at a foreign port, by steamship, allowing and paying therefor, if by an American vessel, the sea and United States inland postage, and if by a foreign vessel, Preference to American steamships. [Repealed, 1862, ch. 58, § 4. *Post,* p. 382.]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.
Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* That so much of the appropriation Mail service to Olympia, Oregon.for inland mail service as is provided for transportation of mails from San Francisco to Puget’s Sound, via Astoria, in Oregon, shall be applied to the transportation of said mails by land to Olympia, whenever by law such service shall be provided in lieu of ocean service. Approved, June 15, 1860.