Chapter LVIII. *making Appropriations for the Service of the Post Office Department during the fiscal Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three.* April 17, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the foll
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Chap. LVIII.— 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-three.* April 17, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums bePost Office appropriation. and the same are hereby appropriated for the service of the Post Office Department for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, 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:
For transportation of the mails, (inland.) six million nine hundred andTransportation of the mails. sixty-one thousand dollars. For compensation to postmasters, two million two hundred and thirty-fourPay of postmasters. thousand dollars. For clerks in the offices of postmasters, eight hundred and forty-sixClerks. thousand dollars. For ship, steamboat, and way letters, twelve thousand dollars.Ship, &c., letters. For office furniture in the post offices, two thousand dollars.Office furniture.
For advertising, thirty-six thousand dollars.Advertising. For mail bags, seventy-five thousand dollars.Mail bags. For wrapping paper, forty-five thousand dollars.Wrapping paper. For mail locks, keys, and stamps, fifty-six thousand dollars.Mail locks, &c. For mail depredations and special agents, seventy-five thousand dollars.Mail depredations, &c. For miscellaneous payments, one hundred and eighty-seven thousandMiscellaneous. dollars. For postage stamps and stamped envelopes, ninety thousand dollars.Postage stamps and envelopes.
For payments of balances due to foreign countries, two hundred andForeign balances. thirty thousand dollars. t For payments to letter carriers, one hundred and fifty-two thousandLetter carriers. dollars. For transportation of foreign mails, four hundred and sixty-five thousandForeign mails. dollars. For compensation of twenty-five additional clerks in the Post OfficeTwenty-five additional clerks. Department, authorized by the “Act to promote the efficiency of the Dead Letter Office,” approved January twenty-first, eighteen hundred1862, ch. 8.*Ante*, p. 332. and sixty-two, from the date of their appointment to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, eight thousand eight hundred dollars.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That if the revenues of the PostDeficiency appropriation for 1862–63. Office Department shall be insufficient to meet the appropriations of this act, then the sum of two million one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, 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-three. 382 THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 58, 59. 1862. Sec. 3. California central route.*And be it further enacted*, That the sum of one million dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the service of the California central route. Sec. 4. Laws giving preference to American over foreign steamships repealed.*And be it further enacted*, That all nets and parts of acts heretofore passed requiring that the Postmaster General in causing the transportation of mails by steamships between the United States and any foreign port or ports, or between any ports of the United States, touching at a foreign port, shall give preference to American over foreign steamships,1860. ch. 131, § 4.*Ante*, p. 39. when departing from the same port for the same destination within three days of each other, be and the same are hereby repealed.
Sec. 5. Coast mail between San Francisco and Crescent city.*And be it further enacted*, That die Postmaster General be and be is hereby authorized to establish a const mail, not less than semi-monthly, by steam vessels, between San Francisco and Crescent City, in the State of California, including service at the intermediate ports: Proviso.*Provided*, That the sum to be paid for such service shall not exceed the sum of twenty thousand dollars per annum. Approved, April 17, 1862.