Chapter XXVI. making Appropriations for the Service of the Post-Office Department during the Fiscal Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-four
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Chap. XXVI.— 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-four.February 9, 1863. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be,Post-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-four, 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,) seven million two hundredTransportation of the mails. two thousand dollars.
For foreign mail transportation, four hundred and twenty thousand dollars. For ship, steamboat, and way letters, eight thousand dollars.Ship, &c., letters. 647THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 26. 1863. For compensation to postmasters, two million four hundred and thirtyPostmasters and clerks. thousand dollars. For clerks for post-offices, nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For payments to letter-carriers, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars.Letter carriers. For compensation of blank agents and assistants, six thousand dollars.Blank agents, &c.
For wrapping paper, forty thousand dollars.Wrapping paper, twine, &c. For twine, fifteen thousand dollars. For office stamps, six thousand dollars. For office furniture, three thousand dollars. For advertising, fifty-five thousand dollars. For postage stamps and stamped envelopes, one hundred thousand dollars.Postage stamps, &c. For mail depredations and special agents, seventy-five thousand dollars.Depredations and special agents. For mail boys [bags] sixty-five thousand dollars.Mail bags, locks, &c.
For mail locks, keys, and miscellaneous items, ten thousand dollars. For payment of balances due to foreign countries, two hundred and tenBalances due foreign countries. thousand dollars. For miscellaneous payments, one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars;Miscellaneous.Post-offices at Newport and New Bedford. of which not exceeding four thousand dollars may be appropriated for fitting up a portion of the custom-houses at Newport, Rhode Island, and New Bedford, Massachusetts, for the use of the post-offices in said cities.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the sum of one million dollarsCalifornia central route. is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the service of the California central route. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That in case the revenues of theUndrawn balances applicable to deficiencies. Post-Office Department are insufficient to meet the appropriations made by this act the undrawn balances of appropriations heretofore made to supply deficiencies of that department are hereby made applicable to the payment thereof.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That the sum of six thousand dollarsTransfer of appropriation for paper, &c. to pay for blank agents, &c.1862, ch. 44.*Ante*, p. 357. be transferred from the appropriation for paper for the public printing provided for by act approved March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled “An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and additional appropriations for the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two,” to enable the Postmaster-General to pay therefrom the compensation of the blank agents and their assistants, heretofore paid out of the appropriation for post-office blanks.
Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* That the Postmaster-General be, andMail service in steamship between San Francisco and Victoria.Coast mail between San Francisco and Crescent City to cease.1862, ch. 58, § 5.*Ante*, p. 382. he is hereby, authorized to contract and provide for the transportation of the United States mails on the steamships running between San Francisco, California, and Victoria, Vancouver’s Island, to be delivered at Crescent City and Trinidad, California, Astoria and Portland in Oregon, as often as said steamships touch at said ports named, and at Port Angelos, Washington Territory, as often as said steamships approach or pass that point going to or returning from Victoria; and that the mail service provided for by the fifth section of the act entitled “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,” shall cease on the termination of the year for which it was contracted: *Provided, nevertheless,*Limit of appropriation.
That the service herein provided for shall not exceed the sum of twenty-four thousand dollars per annum. Approved, February 9, 1863.