Chapter CCXLI. making Appropriations for the Service of the Post-Office Department during the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one
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CHAP. CCXLI.— An Act making Appropriations for the Service of the Post-Office Department during the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one.July 11, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be,Appropriations for Post-Office Department.1836, ch. 270.Vol. v. p. 80. and the same are hereby, appropriated for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, 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 mail inland, including pay of mail messengers,Inland mails. route agents, mail route agents, local agents, postal railway clerks, and baggage masters, thirteen million five hundred and six thousand eight hundred and ninety-three dollars.
For transportation of the foreign mail, four hundred and eighty thousandForeign mails. dollars. 228 FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 241, 242. 1870. For pay of postmasters, five million dollars.Postmasters, clerks, and letter-carriers. For pay of clerks in post-offices, two million five hundred thousand dollars. For pay of letter-carriers, one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For pay of blank agents and assistants, eight thousand dollars.Blank agents, &c. For mail depredations and special agents, one hundred and twenty-fiveMail depredations and special agents. thousand dollars.
For postage stamps and envelopes, five hundred and twenty thousandPostage stamps and envelopes.No part for stamped envelopes, except, &c. dollars: *Provided,* That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for stamped envelopes beyond a temporary supply sufficient for use till the first day of October next, except to carry out contracts hereafter to be made with the lowest bidder according to law upon samples to be furnished by the Postmaster-General. For ship, steamboat, and way letters, eight thousand two hundredShip, &c. letters. dollars.
For mail bags and mail-bag catchers, one hundred and forty thousandMail bags, &c. locks and keys. dollars. For mail locks, keys and stamps, forty thousand dollars. For wrapping paper, thirty-five thousand dollars.Paper and twine. For twine, thirty-five thousand dollars. For letter-balances, three thousand four hundred dollars.Letter-balances and furniture. For office furniture, two thousand five hundred dollars. For advertising, forty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no part of theAdvertising.Proviso. sum shall be paid to any paper published in the District of Columbia for advertising mail routes, except in Virginia and Maryland.
For miscellaneous payments, including balances due foreign countries,Miscellaneous, foreign balances, &c. and to postmasters for rent, light, fuel, and incidental expenses, registered, package, and official envelopes, for postmasters, fees to United States attorneys, marshals, and clerks of court, eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For post-route maps, twenty thousand dollars.Post-route maps. For money transferred by postmasters and deposited in the treasury onMoney-order account. 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-one, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, viz.:— For steamship service between San Francisco, Japan, and China, fiveSteamship service between San Francisco, Japan, and China; hundred thousand dollars. For steamship service between the United States and Brazil, one hundredthe United States and Brazil; and fifty thousand dollars.
For steamship service between San Francisco and the SandwichSan Francisco and the Sandwich Islands. Islands, seventy-five thousand dollars. Approved, July 11, 1870.