Chapter 140. Making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six
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CHAP. 140.— An Act Making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.February 28, 1895. *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: office of the postmaster-general.Postmaster-General.
For advertising, five thousand dollars.Advertising. For miscellaneous items in the office of the Postmaster-General, oneMiscellaneous. thousand dollars. office of the first assistant postmaster-general.First Assistant Postmaster-General. For compensation to postmasters, sixteen million dollars.Postmasters. For compensation to clerks in post offices, ten million one hundredClerks in post-offices. thousand dollars. For rent, light, and fuel for first and second class post-offices, nineRent, light, and fuel. hundred thousand dollars.
For rent, light, and fuel for post-offices of the third class, seven hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That there shall not be allowed for*Proviso*.Limit third-class offices. 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 fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Postmaster-General,*Proviso*.Expenditures. in his discretion, under such regulations as he shall prescribe, may authorize any of the postmasters of said offices to expend the fund he may allow them for such purposes without the written consent of the Postmaster-General.
For advertising at first and second class post-offices, fifteen thousand dollars.Advertising. For free delivery service, including existing experimental free-deliveryFree delivery. offices, twelve million seven hundred and ninety thousand two hundred and eighty-three dollars and sixty-four cents. For stationery in post-offices, fifty thousand dollars.Stationery. For wrapping twine, eighty thousand dollars.Twine. For wrapping paper, fifty thousand dollars.Paper. For letter balances, scales, and test weights, and repairs to same,Scales. fifteen thousand dollars.
For postmarking and rating stamps, and repairs to same, and inkCanceling, etc., stamps. and pads for stamping and canceling purposes, thirty 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, blanksPrinting. and books of an urgent nature for the postal service, fifteen thousand dollars. For rental of canceling machines, sixty thousand dollars.Canceling machines. 692FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 140. 1895. office of the second assistant postmaster-general.Second Assistant Postmaster-General. For inland mail transportation, namely: Inland transportation byInland mail transportation.Star routes. star routes, including temporary service to newly established offices, five million eight hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For inland transportation by steamboat routes, four hundred andSteamboat routes. twenty thousand dollars. For mail-messenger service, one million two hundred and sixty-fiveMessenger service. thousand dollars.
For mail bags and mailbag catchers, cord fasteners, label cases, andBags, catchers, etc. for labor and material necessary for repairing equipment, two hundred and seventy thousand dollars. For mail locks and keys, chains, tools, and machinery, and for laborLocks, keys, etc. and material necessary for repairing same, forty thousand dollars. For the purpose of enabling the Postmaster-General to rent a buildingRepair shop. for a mailbag repair shop and lock repair shop, and for fuel, gas, watchmen and charwoman, oil, and repair of machinery for same, eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For inland transportation by railroad routes, of which a sum notRailroad routes. 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-six million five hundred thousand dollars. For railway post-office car service, three million two hundred andPostal cars. five thousand dollars. For railway post-office clerks, seven million four hundred and thirty-threeRailway mail clerks. thousand dollars, of which sum not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars may be used to pay necessary traveling expenses of chief clerks and railway postal clerks traveling on duty under order of the *Proviso*.To reside on route.Postmaster-General: *Provided*, That all clerks hereafter appointed to the Railway Mail Service and to perform duty in railway post offices shall reside at some point on the route to which they are assigned; but railway mail clerks heretofore appointed and now performing such duty shall not be required to change their residence.
For necessary and special facilities on trunk lines from Boston, Massachusetts,Special facilities. by way of New York and Washington, to Atlanta and New Orleans, one hundred and ninety six thousand six hundred and fourteen *Proviso*.Condition.dollars and twenty two cents: *Provided*, That no part of the appropriation 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. For transportation of foreign mails, one million six hundred thousandForeign mails. dollars: *Proviso*.Clerks on steamers.*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 twenty 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. one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For pay of agents and assistants to distribute stamps, and expensesDistribution. of agency, twelve thousand dollars. For manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers,Stamped envelopes, etc. eight hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
For pay of agent and assistants to distribute stamped envelopes andDistribution. newspaper wrappers, and expenses of agency, seventeen thousand eight hundred dollars. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Chs. 140, 144, 145. 1895.693 For manufacture of postal cards, one hundred and eighty-six thousandPostal cards. dollars. For pay of agent and assistants to distribute postal cards, andDistribution. expenses of agency, seven thousand eight hundred dollars. For registered package, tag, official, and dead-letter envelopes, oneOfficial, etc., envelopes. hundred and seven thousand dollars.
For ship, steamboat, and way letters, one thousand five hundredShip, etc., letters. dollars. For engraving, printing, and binding drafts and warrants, two thousandPrinting, etc., drafts. 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, three hundred thousandMail depredations. dollars: *Provided*, That not exceeding five thousand dollars of*Proviso*.Fees, suits on official bonds. 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 Auditor for the Post-Office Department, through the Solicitor of the Treasury, against the sureties on the official bonds of late postmasters, as provided for by section two[R.
S., sec. 292, p. 49](/us/rs/s292/p49). hundred and ninety-two, Revised Statutes of the United States. For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and conviction ofRewards. post-office burglars and robbers, twenty-five thousand dollars. Sec. 2. That if the revenues 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 revenues for the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.
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