Chapter 40.
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CHAP. 40.— An act to authorize the publication of a new edition of the Postal Laws and Regulations.Mar. 30, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Laws and regulations, Post-office Department, now edition. That for printing and publishing a new edition of the Laws and Regulations of the Post Office Department, consisting of seventy-five thousand copies, there is appropriated seventeen thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars; such edition to be prepared under the direction of the Postmaster General, and printed at the Government Printing Office.
No extra compensationNo extra compensation. shall be allowed to any officer or clerk of the Department for services in preparing or superintending the publication of such edition.Sale of copies. The Postmaster-General may authorize the sale of copies of such edition, not needed for the use of the Department, to individuals, at the cost thereof, with ten per centum added; the proceeds of such sales to be deposited in the Treasury as part of the postal revenues. Approved, March 30, 1886.