Chapter CXXVI. *making Appropriations for the Service of the Post-Office Department during the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy*
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CHAP. CXXVI.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Service of the Post-Office Department during the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy*. March 3, 1869. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Appropriation for Post-Office Department.1836, ch. 270.Vol. v. p. 80. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, 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 inland mail transportation, including pay of route agents, postalInland mails. clerks, and mail messengers, thirteen million thirty-seven thousand six hundred and fifty-three dollars: *Provided*, That no part of said sumProviso. shall be paid for inland transportation between Fort Abercrombie and Helena. For foreign mail transportation, four hundred and fifty thousandForeign mails. dollars. For ship, steamboat, and way letters, eight thousand dollars.Ship, &c. letters. For compensation to postmasters, four million five hundred and forty-sixPostmasters, clerks, and letter-carriers. thousand dollars.
For clerks for post-offices, two million dollars. For payments to letter-carriers, one million dollars. For wrapping paper, fifty thousand dollars.Paper and twine. For twine, twenty thousand dollars. For letter balances, four thousand dollars. For compensation to blank agents and assistants, eight thousandBlank agents. dollars. For office furniture, two thousand five hundred dollars. For advertising, forty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part ofAdvertising.Proviso. this sum shall be paid to any papers published in the District of Columbia for advertising mail routes, except in Virginia and Maryland.
For postage stamps and stamped envelopes, five hundred thousandPostage stamps and stamped envelopes. dollars. For detecting and preventing mail depredations and for special agents,Special agents. one hundred thousand dollars; and no greater sum shall be paid special agents than is hereby provided. For mail-bags, and mail-bag catchers, one hundred and twenty thousandMail-bags, locks and keys. dollars. For mail-locks, keys, and stamps, thirty-seven thousand dollars. For miscellaneous payments, including payment of balances to foreignForeign balances. countries, eight hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
For preparing and publishing post-route maps, sixteen thousandPost-route maps. dollars. For retransfer to money-order account, being money transferred byMoney-order account. postmasters and deposited in the treasury as postage receipts, one million dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the following sums, or so muchFurther appropriation. thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, viz:Steamship service between San Francisco, Japan, and China;
For steamship service between San Francisco, Japan, and China, five hundred thousand dollars.the United States and Brazil; For steamship service between the United States and Brazil, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For steamship service between San Francisco and the Sandwich Islands, seventy-five thousand dollars.San Francisco and the Sandwich Islands. For supplying deficiency in the revenues of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundredDeficiencies for the year 1870. and seventy, five million seven hundred and forty thousand dollars.
Approved, March 3, 1869.