Chapter XCVIII. *making Appropriations for the Service of the Post-Office Department for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-nine.* July 10, 1848. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums o
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Chap. XCVIII.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Service of the Post-Office Department for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-nine.* July 10, 1848. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the service Appropriations.of the Post-Office Department, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, out of any moneys in the treasury arising from the revenues of the said department, in conformity 1836, ch. 270.to the act of the second of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, namely:
For the transportation of the mails within the United States, two Transportation of mail.million four hundred and ninety-five thousand seven hundred dollars; For transportation of the mails between Charleston, South Carolina, Transportation of mail by steamships.and Havana, by way of Key West, calling at Savannah, under the contract made with M. C. Mordecai, fifty thousand dollars. And for transportation of the mail by said line, or by other steamers, to such other places on the coast of Florida as the Postmaster-General may deem practicable and expedient, five thousand dollars;
For transportation by steamships between New York and Bremen, according to the contract with Edward Mills, authorized by the “Act to provide for the transportation of the mail between the United States and foreign countries,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and 1815, ch. 69.forty-five, four hundred thousand dollars; For compensation to postmasters, one million seventy-five thousand Compensation to postmasters.dollars; For ship, steamboat, and way letters, twenty-five thousand dollars;
Ship, steamboat, and way letters. For wrapping paper, eighteen thousand dollars; For office furniture, (in the offices of postmasters,) three thousand Wrapping paper. Office furniture.dollars; 246 THIRTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 99, 100, 101. 1848. Advertising. For advertising, thirty-five thousand dollars; Mail bags. For mail bags, twenty-five thousand dollars; Blanks. For blanks, eighteen thousand dollars; Mail locks, &c. For mail locks, keys, and stamps, five thousand dollars;
Mail depredations and special agents. For the detection and prevention of mail depredations, and for special agents, twelve thousand dollars; Clerks. For clerks for offices, (in the offices of postmasters,) two hundred and thirty thousand dollars; Miscellaneous. For miscellaneous, fifty-five thousand dollars. If the revenues of the department shall prove insufficient, the deficiency shall be supplied from the treasury. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That in case the revenues of the department, referred to in the first section of this act, shall prove insufficient to meet the foregoing appropriations, then any deficiency that may thus arise shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, July 10, 1848.