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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 25 STAT. · October 1, 1888 · Chapter 1065

Chapter 1065.

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CHAP. 1065.— An act to authorize the Postmaster-General to advertise for and purchase improved registered mail locks and keys thereforOctober 1, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Mail locks and keys.Post-General to advertise for new registered mail locks and keys. That the Postmaster-General be and he is hereby authorized to advertise for and receive proposals for such registering mail locks and keys for such locks, for the use of the Post-Office Department as he may deem suitable for the safety and security of registered mail matter: and be is Contracts.further authorized to make contracts for such locks and keys for the supply of the Post-Office Department, if he deem the same suitable, and for such a number of years, not to exceed four years, as he may deem best for the interest of the mail service; with power, however, to the Postmaster-General to renew such contract or contracts, should he make any contracts under the provisions of this act for said articles of mail equipment, for another and an additional period of four years should he deem it proper and advisable so to do: and the sum Appropriation.of forty-five thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Chs. 1065, 1069. 1888.505 be and the same is hereby appropriated for the purchase of such locks and keys therefor if such contract or contracts be made: *Provided, however*,*Proviso*. That no part of said appropriation shall be expended unless new registering locks and keys therefor are adopted by the Postmaster-GeneralOnly for new locks, etc. for the use of the mail service under the authority given by this act. Approved, October 1, 1888. Chapter 1069: making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for other purposed.
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