Chapter XCVII. *relating to the Clerkships in the Post-Office Department.* March 3, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the third section of an act Chief clerk in office of assistant postmasters-general. 1853, ch. 97, § 3
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Chap. XCVII.— An Act *relating to the Clerkships in the Post-Office Department.* March 3, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the third section of an act Chief clerk in office of assistant postmasters-general. 1853, ch. 97, § 3. Vol. x. p. 209. Salary. of congress entitled “An act making appropriations for the civil and dip-lomatic expenses of the government for the year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four,” approved the third of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to authorize the appointment of a chief clerk in the offices of each of the three assistants postmaster-general, at a salary of two thousand dollars per annum each.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That, in lieu of temporary clerks Additional permanent clerks in lieu of temporary clerks.now employed in the Post-Office Department and paid out of the appropriation for postage-stamps and stamped envelopes and the proceeds of sales of waste paper, the Postmaster-General be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint two clerks of class three, two clerks of class two, and five clerks of class one. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the sum of eighteen thousand Appropriation.dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the 516 THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 98, 99. 1865.treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the clerks provided for in the two preceding sections of this act. Appropriation for temporary clerks. Sec. 4. *And it further enacted,* That the sum of six thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of such temporary clerks as the Postmaster-General may, from time to time, deem necessary. Unclaimed money in dead letters, and from sales of waste paper, to be deposited.
Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* That unclaimed money in dead let-ters for which no owner can be found, and also all money derived from sales of waste paper or other public property in post-offices or the Post-Office Department, be deposited in the treasury of the United States, under the direction of the Postmaster-General, for the service of the Post-Office Department; and any postmaster or clerk in a post-office, or any other clerk, officer, or agent of the Post-Office Department, having temporary Wilful neglect to deposit, how punished.custody of such money, and wilfully neglecting to deposit the same as herein provided, shall be deemed to be guilty of felony, and be subject to a fine not exceeding double the sum so retained by such clerk or other agents as aforesaid, or imprisonment not exceeding three years, or both, at the discretion of the court.
Approved, March 3, 1865.