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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 20 STAT. · Dec. 21, 1878 · Chapter 10

Chapter 10.

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CHAP. 10.— An act to provide for a deficiency in the appropriation for transportation of mails by railroads for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. Dec. 21, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the sum of four hundredAppropriation.Transportation of mail. and fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to meet the deficiency in the appropriation for the transportation of mails by railroads for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine: *Provided,**No increase of postal-car service*.1879, ch. 180,*Post*, 357.
That no increase in the postal-car service beyond what existed on the first of December eighteen hundred and seventy-eight shall be made during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. Approved, December 21, 1878.
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