Chapter 206. making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 206.— An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and for other purposes.June 11, 1880. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriations for service Post-Office Department. 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 eighty-one, out of any money in the Treasury arising from the revenues of said department, in conformity to the act of July second, eighteen 1836, ch. 270,[Stat., 5, 81](/us/stat/5/81).hundred and thirty-six, as follows:
Office of the Postmaster-General.—For mail depredations andItems. post-office inspectors, including amounts necessary for fees to United States marshals and attorneys, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And not exceeding five thousand dollars of this amount may be expended for fees to United States attorneys, marshals, clerks of courts, and counsel necessarily employed by post office inspectors of the Post-Office Department, subject to approval by the Attorney-General; and the superintendent of railway mail service and the chief of post-office inspectors shall be paid their actual expenses while traveling on the business of the department; and section four thousand and seventeen of the RevisedR.
S., 4017,Amended. Statutes is hereby so amended as to insert in lieu of the words “special agents ” and the word “agents”, wherever they occur in said section, the words “post-office inspectors”. For advertising, thirty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Postmaster-General*Proviso*.Advertisement of mail-lettings. shall cause advertisements of all general mail-lettings of each State and Territory to be conspicuously posted up in each post-office in the State and Territory embraced in said advertisements ibr at least sixty days before the time of such general letting; and no other advertisement of such letting shall be required; but this provision shall not apply to any other than general mail-lettings.
For preparation and publication of post-route maps, including revisionPost-route maps. of former editions, and maps, diagrams, and other information, forty-two thousand dollars; and the Postmaster-General may authorize the publication and sale of said maps to individuals at the cost-thereof, the proceeds of said sales to be applied as a further appropriation for said purpose. For miscellaneous items in the office of the Postmaster-General, oneMiscellaneous items.Postmasters. thousand five hundred dollars.
Office of the First Assistant Postmaster-General.—For compensation to postmasters, seven million five hundred thousand dollars. For compensation to clerks in post-offices, three million six hundred Clerks.and fifty thousand dollar’s. For payment to letter-carriers, two million five hundred thousand Letter-carriers.dollars. For wrapping-paper, twenty thousand dollars.Wrapping-paper. For wrapping-twine, fifty-five thousand dollars, of which sum fiveTwine. thousand dollars shall be available on the passage of this act.
For marking and rating stamps, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.Stamps. For the purchase of card-canceling and postmarking machines, sixCanceling and marking machines. thousand dollars; and the proper officers of the Post-Office Department 178 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 206. 1880. may purchase such machines as in their judgment may best answer the purpose. Hut no patented machine shall be so purchased until the proper officers shall have fully secured and protected the government and its officers against the payment of royalty thereon otherwise than in the contract for its use, and against all suits for infringement of any alleged patent for similar machines.
For letter-balances, test weights, and scales, eight thousand dollars.Balances, weights, and scales.Rent.Office furniture.Stationery.Miscellaneous.Second Assistant P. M. General.Transportation of mails. For rent, light, and fuel, four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For office furniture, twenty thousand dollars. For stationery, fifty thousand dollars. For miscellaneous and incidental items, eighty-five thousand dollars. Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster-General.—For inland mail transportation, namely:
For transportation on railroad routes, nine million six hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars, of which sum three hundred and fifty thousand dollars may be used by the Postmaster-General to maintain and secure from railroads necessary and special facilities for the postal service for the fiscal year ending June *Proviso*.thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one: *Provided*, That in case any railroad company fail or refuse to provide railway post-office cars when required by the Post Office Department said company shall have its pay R.S., 4002.reduced ten per centum on the rates fixed in section four thousand and two of the Bevised Statutes as amended by act of July twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, entitled “An act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 1876, ch. 179, Stat., 19, 78.1878, eh. 259, Stat., 20, 140.1879, ch. 45, 1st sees, acts, 40.thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and for other purposes”, and as further amended by the act of June seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, entitled “An act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes”; and section five of the act entitled “An act making appropriations for the sendee of the PostOfiice Department for the fiscal year ending June 1879, ch. 180, Stat., 20, 358.Sec. 5 repealed.thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes”, approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
For inland transportation by steamboat routes, nine hundred thousandItems. dollars. For inland transportation by star routes, seven million three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For transportation by postal cars, one million three hundred and sixty-six thousand dollars. For compensation to railway post-office clerks, one million four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For route-agents, one million two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For mail-route messengers, two hundred thousand dollars.
For local agents, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. For mail-messengers, seven hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For mail locks and keys, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided, **Proviso*.Proposals for mail-locks and keys.That the proposals for contracts for furnishing said mail-locks and keys shall be re-advertised for. For mailbags and mailbag catchers, one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster-General.—ForThird Assistant P.
M. General.Items. manufacture of adhesive postage-stamps, of official stamps, and of newspaper and periodical stamps, ninety-seven thousand dollars. For pay of agent and assistants to distribute stamps, and expenses of the agency, eight thousand one hundred dollars. For manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper-wrappers, four hundred and forty-four thousand and twenty dollars. For pay of agent and assistants to distribute stamped envelopes and newspaper-wrappers, and expenses of agency, sixteen thousand dollars. 179 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 206, 207, 208. 1880. For manufacture of postal cards, two hundred and thirty-seven thousand dollars. And the Postmaster-General is hereafter authorized to furnish and issue to the public, postal cards with postage-stamps impressed upon them, for circulation in the mails exchanged with foreign countries under the provisions of the Universal Postal Union Convention of June first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, at a postage charge1878. Convention.Stat.,20, 734. of two cents each, including the cost of their manufacture.
For pay of agent and assistants to distribute postal cards, and expenses of agency, seven thousand three hundred dollars. For registered-package envelopes, locks and seals, and for office envelopes, and for dead-letter envelopes, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. For ship, steamboat, and way letters, four thousand five hundred dollars. For engraving, printing, and binding drafts and warrants, one thousand five hundred dollars. Office of Superintendent of Foreign Mails.—For transportationSuperintendent of foreign mails. of foreign mails, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Postmaster-General be authorized to remit in favor of the colonies of New’ Zealand and New South Wales so much of the cost of the overland transportation of the Australian closed mails as he may deem just.
For balances due foreign countries, forty-five thousand dollars, includingItems. the United States’ portion of the expenses of the International Bureau at Berne, Switzerland, under the provisions of the Universal Postal Union Convention, concluded at Paris, France, June first, eighteen1878. Convention.[Stat., 20, 734](/us/stat/20/734). hundred and seventy-eight. For ordinary postage-stamps to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries under article eight of the Universal Postal Union Convention, one thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. That if the revenue of the Post-Office Department shall beRevenues and deficiency. insufficient to meet the appropriations made by this act, then the sum of three million eight hundred and eighty-three thousand four hundred and twenty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money hi the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the revenue of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one.
Approved, June 11, 1880.