Chapter 573.
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CHAP. 573.— An act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.June 30, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Postal service appropriations. Vol. 5, p. 80. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the service of the Post-Office Department, in conformity to the act of July second, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, as follows: office of the postmaster-general.Postmaster-General.
For mail depredations and post-office inspectors, and fees to UnitedMail depredations, inspectors, etc. States marshals, attorneys, and the necessary incidental expenses connected therewith, two hundred thousand dollars. For advertising, twenty thousand dollars.Advertising. For miscellaneous items in the office of the Postmaster-General, oneMiscellaneous. thousand five hundred dollars. office of the first assistant postmaster-general.First Assistant Postmaster-General. Postmasters.
For compensation to postmasters, eleven million seven hundred thousand dollars. For compensation to clerks in post-offices, five million one hundredClerks in post-offices. Rent, fuel, and light. Branch office, Capitol Hill-, Washington city. and fifty thousand dollars. For rent, fuel, and light, four hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars. And the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized to rent a suitable building on Capitol Hill for use as a branch of the Washington city post-office, at a rate not exceeding thirty dollars per mouth, until further action of Congress.
For office furniture, twenty-five thousand dollars.Furniture. Miscellaneous. Free delivery. For miscellaneous and incidental items, seventy thousand dollars. For tree-delivery service, four million nine hundred and twenty-eight thousand five hundred and thirty-one dollars and twenty-five cents; forty thousand dollars of which may be used, in the discretion of theAdditional Service. Postmaster-General, for the establishment, under existing law, of the tree-delivery system in cities where it is not now established.
For stationery in post-offices, fifty-five thousand dollars.Stationery, etc. For wrapping-twine, eighty thousand dollars. For wrapping-paper, thirty thousand dollars. For letter-balances, scales, and test-weights, ten thousand dollars. For postmarking and rating stamps, and ink and pads for stamping and cancelling purposes, thirty thousand dollars. 92 office of the second assistant postmaster-general.Second Assistant Postmaster-General. Inland mail transportation. Star routes.
For inland mail transportation, namely: Inland transportation by star routes, five million eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Inland transportation by steamboat, routes, five hundred and seventy-fiveSteamboat routes. thousand dollars. Mail-messenger service, nine hundred thousand dollars.Messenger Service. Bags and bag-catchers. Locks and keys. Railroad-routes. Mailbags and mailbag catchers, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Mail-locks and keys, twenty thousand dollars.
Inland transportation, railroad routes, fifteen million five hundred and ninety-five thousand four hundred and thirty-two dollars. Railway post-office-ear service, one million eight hundred and eight Postal-cars.thousand dollars. Railway postal clerks, four million eight hundred thousand dollars.Railway postal clerks. Special facilities. Necessary and special facilities on trunk lines, two hundred and ninety-one thousand dollars. Miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars.Miscellaneous. office of the third assistant postmaster-general.Third Assistant Postmaster-General.
Stumps. For manufacture of adhesive postage and special-delivery stamps, one hundred and sixteen thousand seven hundred dollars. For pay of agent and assistants to distribute stamps, and expensesDistribution. of agency, eight thousand one hundred dollars. For manufacture of stamped envelopes, newspaper-wrappers, andStamped envelopes, etc. letter-sheets, five, hundred and eighty-three thousand five hundred dollars. For pay of agent and assistants to distribute stamped envelopes,Distribution. newspaper-wrappers, and letter-sheets, and expenses of agency, sixteen thousand dollars.
For manufacture of postal cards, one hundred and eighty-eight thousandPostal cards. six hundred dollars. For pay of agent and assistants to distribute postal cards, and expensesDistribution. of agency, ten thousand three hundred dollars. For registered-package, tag, official, and dead-letter envelopes, sixty-sevenOfficial, etc.,envelopes. thousand two hundred dollars. For ship, steamboat, and way letters, two thousand dollars.Ship, etc., letters. Printing, etc., drafts. Miscellaneous.
For engraving, printing, and binding drafts and warrants, two thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars. office of the superintendent of foreign mails.Superintendent foreign mails. For transportation of foreign mails, three hundred and seventy-fiveTransport at ion. thousand dollars. For balance due foreign countries, one hundred thousand dollars.Balance due foreign countries. Sec. 2. That if the revenues of the Post-Office Department shall be insufficient to meet the appropriations made by this act, a sum equal to Appropriation to meet deficiency in postal revenues.such deficiency of the revenues of said Department is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply the said deficiencies in the revenue of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.
Approved, June 30, 1886.