Chapter 213. making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four
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CHAP. 213.— An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.March 3, 1893. *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 Vol. 5, p. 80.Department, in conformity with the act of July second, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, as follows:
Office of the Postmaster-General.Postmaster General. For advertising, eighteen thousand dollars.Advertising.Miscellaneous. For miscellaneous items in the office of the Postmaster General, one thousand dollars. Office of the First Assistant Postmaster-General.First Assistant Post master-General. For compensation to postmasters, fifteen million six hundred thousandPostmasters. dollars. For compensation to clerks in post-offices, eight million eight hundredClerks in post-offices. and sixty thousand dollars and of this sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars may, in the discretion of the Postmaster-General, be expended for the rental of cancelling machines.
For rent, light, and fuel for first and second class post offices, eightRent, light, and fuel.*Proviso*.Additional premises, New York. hundred and two thousand dollars: *Provided*, That of said sum, thirty-five thousand dollars may be used for the rent, light, fuel, and necessary fixtures and furniture of additional premises in the city of New York hereby authorized to be hired and used for general post office business in said city. For rent, light and fuel for post-offices of the third class, six hundredLimit, third-class offices. and thirty thousand dollars: *Provided*, that there shall not be allowed for the use of any third-class post-office for rent a sum in excess of four hundred dollars, nor more than sixty dollars for fuel and lights, in any one year.
For necessary miscellaneous and incidental items directly connectedMiscellaneous. with first and second class post-offices, including furniture, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For free-delivery service, including existing experimental Free delivery.free-delivery offices, eleven million two hundred and fifty-four thousand nine In rural communities.hundred dollars, of which the sum of ten thousand dollars shall be applied under the direction of the Postmaster-General to experimental free delivery in rural communities other than towns and villages.
For stationery in post-offices, fifty seven thousand dollars.Stationery.Twine.Paper.Scales. For wrapping twine, ninety thousand dollars. For wrapping paper, sixty thousand dollars. For letter balances, scales, and test weights, and repairs to same, eighteen thousand dollars. For postmarking and rating stamps and repairs to same, and inkCanceling, etc., stamps. and pads for stamping and canceling purposes, forty thousand dollars. For packing-boxes, sawdust, paste, and hardware, one thousand fivePacking-boxes, etc. hundred dollars.
For printing facing-slips and cutting same, card slide-labels, blanks,Printing. and books of an urgent nature for the postal service, ten thousand dollars. 733 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 nine hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. For inland transportation by steamboat routes, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For mail messenger service, one million two hundred and seventy-fiveMessenger service. thousand dollars. For mail bags and mailbag catchers, cord-fasteners, label cases, andBags and catchers. for labor and material necessary for repairing equipment, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For mail locks and keys, chains, tools and machinery, and for laborLocks, keys, etc. and material necessary for repairing same, thirty-five thousand dollars. For the purpose of enabling the Postmaster-General to rent a buildingRepair shop. for mailbag repair shop and lock-repair shop, and for fuel, gas, watchmen and charwomen, oil, and repair of machinery for same, eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For inland transportation by railroad routes, of which a sum notRailroad routes.Freight. exceeding thirty thousand dollars may be employed to pay freight on postal cards, stamped envelopes, and stamped paper, and other supplies from the manufactories to the post-offices and depots of distribution, twenty-four million five hundred thousand dollars. For railway post-office car service, two million nine hundred andPostal cars. forty-one. thousand dollars. For railway post-office clerks, six million eight hundred and ninety-fourRailway mail clerks. thousand dollars, of which sum not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars may be used to pay necessary traveling expenses of chief clerksTraveling expenses. and railway postal clerks traveling on duty under order of the Postmaster-General.
For necessary and special facilities on trunk lines from Springfield,Special facilities on trunk lines. Massachusetts, via New York and Washington, to Atlanta and New Orleans, one hundred and ninety-six thousand six hundred and fourteen dollars and twenty two cents: *Provided*, That no part of the appropriation*Proviso*.No expenditure unless necessary. made by this paragraph shall be expended unless the Postmaster General shall deem such expenditure necessary in order to promote the interest of the postal service.
For miscellaneous items, five hundred dollars.Miscellaneous.Foreign mails.*Proviso*.Clerks on steam ships. International Postal Union. For transportation of foreign mails, one million six hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter the Postmaster-General shall be authorized to expend such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding fifty-five thousand dollars, to cover one-half of the cost of transportation, compensation, and expense of clerks to be employed in assorting and pouching mails in transit on steamships between the United States and other postal administrations in the International Postal Union.
For balance due foreign countries, one hundred and ten thousandBalance due foreign countries. dollars. Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster-General.Third Assistant Postmaster-General. For manufacture of adhesive postage and special-delivery stamps,Stamps. three hundred and seventy-six thousand two hundred dollars. For pay of agent and assistants to distribute stamps, and expensesDistribution. of agency, twelve thousand dollars. For manufacture of stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, andStamped envelopes.*Proviso*.Return requests permitted. letter sheets, one million one hundred and ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That it shall be lawful after the thirtieth day of September,*Ante*, p 147. eighteen hundred and ninety-four, for the Postmaster-General to have the usual requests for the return of letters, printed upon stamped envelopes sold by the Post-Office Department through postmasters.
For pay of agent and assistant to distribute stamped envelopes,Distribution newspaper wrappers, and letter sheets, and expenses of agency, seventeen thousand eight hundred dollars. 734 For manufacture of postal cards, three hundred and forty-three thousandPostal cards. seven hundred dollars. For pay of agent and assistants to distribute postal cards, and expensesDistribution. of agency, seven thousand eight hundred dollars. For registered-package, tag, official, and dead-letter envelopes, oneOfficial, etc., envelopes. hundred and thirteen thousand six hundred dollars.
For ship, steamboat, and way letters, one thousand five hundredShip letters. dollars. For engraving, printing, and binding drafts and warrants, threePrinting, etc., drafts. thousand two hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, five hundred dollars.Miscellaneous. office of the fourth assistant postmaster-general.Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General. For mail depredations and post-office inspectors, two hundred andMail depredations.*Proviso*.Limit of expenditure in suits against sureties on official bonds. thirty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That not exceeding five thousand dollars of this amount may be expended for fees to United States attorneys, marshals, clerks of courts, and special counsel necessarily employed in prosecuting civil suits instituted by the (sixth) Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department, through the Solicitor of the Treasury, against the sureties on the official bonds of late [R.
S., Sec. 292, p. 49](/us/rs/t/s292/p49).Postmasters, as provided for by section two hundred and ninety-two, Revised Statutes of the United States. Sec 2 That if the revenue of the Post-Office Department shall beAppropriation to meet deficiencies. 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 for the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred*Proviso*.*Ante*, p. 148. and ninety-four: *Provided*, That so much of the appropriation of forty thousand dollars made by section four of the act of Congress approved July thirteen, eighteen hundred and ninety two, making appropriations for the postal service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, for clerks, letter-carriers,Branch station. and incidental expenses necessary to maintain a branch station of the Chicago (Illinois) post-office in the Government building upon World’s Columbian Exposition.the ground of the World’s Columbian Exposition, and also of the appropriation of twenty-three thousand dollars provided for by said Transportation.Unexpended balances continued.section for transportation of mails by railroad and mail messenger service, as shall remain unexpended on the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, be, and the same is hereby, continued during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.
Approved, March 3, 1893.