Chapter 702. making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine
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CHAP. 702.— An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.July 24, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Postal service appropriations. That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated for the service of the Post Office Department, in conformity with the act of July second, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, as follows: experimental stations.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, sixteen thousand dollars.Advertising.Miscellaneous. For miscellaneous items in the office of the Postmaster-General, one thousand five hundred dollars. office of the first assistant postmaster-general.First Assistant Postmaster-General For compensation to postmasters, twelve million eight hundredPostmasters. thousand dollars.
For compensation to clerks in post-offices, five million nine hundredClerks in post-offices. and fifty thousand dollars. For compensation to clerks in post offices for unusual business,Additional.[R. S. sec. 3863, p. 754](/us/rs/t/s3863/p754). as contemplated by Revised Statutes, section thirty-eight hundred and sixty-three, twenty-five thousand dollars. For rent, lights and fuel for first and second class post-offices, fiveRent, light, and fuel. hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For rent, light, and fuel to post-offices of the third class, four hundred*Proviso*. and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That there shall not be 346FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 702. 1888. allowed for the use of any third-class post-office for rent a sum in excessMaximum. of three hundred dollars, nor more than sixty dollars for fuel and lights in any one year. The Postmaster-General may hereafter allow rent, light, and fuelThird-class offices allowed rent, light, and fuel.*Proviso*.Contracts. at offices of the third class in the same manner as he is now authorized by law to do in the case of offices of the first and second class: *Provided*, That no contract for rent for a third-class post-office shall be made for a longer period than one year, nor shall the aggregate allowance for rent made in any year exceed the amount appropriated for such purpose.
For miscellaneous and incidental items for the first and second classMiscellaneous. post-offices, including furniture, one hundred thousand dollars. For free-delivery service, six million dollars.Free delivery.Additional.*Ante*, p. 157. For the additional expense of the free-delivery service made necessary by the act entitled “An act to limit the hours that letter carriers in cities shall be employed per day,” approved May twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one million dollars.
For stationery in post-offices, fifty-five thousand dollars.Stationery.Twine, etc. For wrapping twine, eighty thousand dollars. For wrapping paper, forty-five thousand dollars. For letter balances, scales, and test weights, fifteen thousand dollars. For postmarking and rating stamps, and ink and pads for stamping and cancelling purposes, forty-three thousand dollars. office of the second assistant postmaster-general.Second Assistant Postmaster-General. For inland mail transportation, namely:
Inland transportation byInland transportation.Star routes.steamboat routes. star routes, five million four hundred thousand dollars. For inland transportation by steamboat routes, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For mail-messenger service, nine-hundred and fifty thousand dollars.Messenger service.Bags and catchers. For mailbags and mailbag catchers, two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. For mail locks and keys, twenty-five thousand dollars.Locks and keys.Railroad routes.Freight.
For inland transportation by railroad routes, of which a sum not exceeding thirty thousand dollars may be employed to pay the freight on postal cards, stamped envelopes, and stamped paper from the manufactories to post-offices and depots of distribution, seventeen million dollars. For railway post-office car service, two million dollars.Postal cars.Railway postal clerks. For railway post-office clerks, five million two hundred and forty-six thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars and twenty-one cents.
For necessary and special facilities on trunk lines, two hundredSpecial facilities. and ninety-five thousand nine hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty-three cents. For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars.Miscellaneous. office of the third assistant postmaster-general.Third Assistant Postmaster-General. For manufacture of adhesive postage and special-delivery stamps,Stamps. one hundred and forty-four thousand one hundred and forty-eight dollars. For pay of agent and assistants to distribute stamps, and expensesDistribution. of agency, eight, thousand dollars.
For manufacture of stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, andStamped envelopes, etc letter-sheets, seven hundred and fifty-six thousand six hundred and eighty-seven dollars. For pay of agent and assistants to distribute stamped envelopes,Distribution. newspaper wrappers, and letter-sheets, and expenses of agency, sixteen thousand dollars. FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 702, 715, 716. 1888.347 For manufacture of postal cards, two hundred and twelve thousandPostal cards. four hundred and fifty-five dollars.
For the pay of agent and assistants to distribute postal cards,Distribution. and expenses of agency, seven thousand eight hundred dollars. For registered package, tag. and official and dead-letter envelopes,Official, etc., envelopes. one hundred and two thousand eight hundred and sixty-six dollars. For ship, steamboat, and way letters, two thousand five hundredShip, etc., letters dollars. For engraving, printing, and binding drafts and warrants, two thousandPrinting, etc., drafts. five hundred dollars.
For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars. That hereafter the postage on seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots, scions,Postage on seeds, roots, etc. and plants shall be charged at the rate of one cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof, subject in all other respects to the existing law. office superintendent foreign mails.Superintendent foreign mails. For transportation of foreign mails, five hundred and forty-sevenTransportation. thousand dollars. For balance due foreign countries, seventy-five thousand dollars.Balance due foreign countries.Appropriation to meet deficiencies.
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 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 said deficiencies in the revenue of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine. Approved, July 24, 1888.