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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 2 STAT. · Feb. 14, 1805 · Chapter XVI

Chapter XVI. *authorizing the Postmaster-General to make a new contract for carrying the mail from Fayetteville, in North Carolina, to Charleston, in South Carolina.*Feb. 14, 1805 [Expired.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Postmaster-General authorized to make a new contra

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Chap. XVI.— An Act *authorizing the Postmaster-General to make a new contract for carrying the mail from Fayetteville, in North Carolina, to Charleston, in South Carolina.*Feb. 14, 1805 [Expired.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Postmaster-General authorized to make a new contract for carrying the mail between Fayetteville and Charleston. Proviso. States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Postmaster-General shall be, and hereby is authorized to make a new contract for carrying the mail in a line of stages between the town of Fayetteville, in the state of North Carolina, and the city of Charleston, in the state of South Carolina, upon such terms and conditions as he may deem most conducive to the interest of the United States: *Provided,* that he does not exceed the sum of four thousand two hundred dollars, annually, beyond the amount of the present contract; and that no contract made in virtue of this act shall extend beyond the time to which the present contract extends.
Approved, February 14, 1805.
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