Chapter XLI. *making Appropriations for the Service of the Post-Office Department during the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and for other Purposes.* Feb. 18, 1867. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled
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CHAP. XLI.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Service of the Post-Office Department during the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and for other Purposes.* Feb. 18, 1867. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the following sums be, andAppropriations for Post-Office Department, for year ending June 30, 1868.1836, ch. 270.Vol. v. p. 80. the same are hereby, appropriated for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, out of any moneys in the treasury arising from the revenues of said department, in conformity to the act of the second of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.
For transportation of the mails (inland), eight million six hundredTransportation of mails. thousand dollars. For transportation of the mails (foreign), six hundred and twenty thousand dollars. For ship, steamboat, and way letters, eight thousand dollars.Ship, steamboat, and way letters. For compensation to postmasters, four million two hundred and fiftyCompensation to postmasters. thousand dollars. For clerks for post-offices, two million dollars.Clerks. For payment to letter-carriers, six hundred and forty thousand dollars.Letter-carriers.
For wrapping paper, eighty thousand dollars.Wrapping paper and twine. For twine, twenty thousand dollars. For letter balances, four thousand dollars.Letter balances. For compensation to blank agents and assistants, eight thousand dollars.Blank agents. For office furniture, three thousand dollars.Office furniture. For advertising, eighty thousand dollars.Advertising. For postage stamps and stamped envelopes, two hundred and seventy-fivePostage stamps and stamped envelopes. thousand dollars.
For mail depredations and special agents, and expenses of negotiatingDepredations, special agents, and postal conventions. postal conventions, one hundred and five thousand dollars. For mail bags and mail-bag catchers, one hundred thousand dollars.Mail bags. For mail locks, keys, and stamps, thirty thousand dollars.Locks, keys, and stamps. For payment of balances due to foreign countries, three hundred andForeign balances. sixty thousand dollars. For miscellaneous payments, four hundred thousand dollars.Miscellaneous. 394 THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 41, 42. 1867. Sec. 2. Further appropriation for the Post-Office Department. *And be it further enacted, *That the following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Service between the United States and Brazil;For the mail steamship service between the United States and Brazil, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
San Francisco, Japan, and China.Steamships need not touch at Honolulu.1865, ch. 37. Vol. xiii. p. 430.For the mail steamship service between San Francisco, Japan, and China, five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That so much of the act of Congress, approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, authorizing said service, as requires the said steamship[s] to touch at Honolulu, in the Sandwich Islands, shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed; upon the express condition, however, that the contractors for said steamship service shall enter into contract to the satisfaction of the Postmaster-General, agreeing to establish, within five months from the passageBranch line from Japan to Shanghae. of this act, in lieu of said service released, a branch line of steam ship service, carrying the United States mails, between the port in Japan used by the main line of steamships and the port of Shanghae in China, making continuous regular trips, connecting with the main line, both on the outward and homeward voyages, under the direction of the Postmaster-General ;Service to be by what vessels. which service shall be performed by first-class American seagoing steamships, and without additional charge to the United States.
Overland mail and marine mail transportation.For the overland mail transportation between the Missouri River and Folsom, and for marine mail transportation between New York and California, nine hundred thousand dollars. Sec. 3. Transfer of clerks to office of auditor of treasury for the Post-Office Department. *And be it further enacted, *That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to transfer two clerks from the third class to class four in the office of the auditor of the treasury for the Post-Office Department, and a sum sufficient to pay the increased compensation required by said transfer, for the remainder of the current year, and the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, is Appropriation.hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, February 18, 1867.