Chapter XLIII. *in Amendment of an Act entitled “An Act to amend the Act entitled ‘An Act to reduce the Rates of Postage, to limit the Use and correct the Abuse of the Franking Privilege, and for the Prevention of Fraud on the Revenues of the Post-Office Department,’” passed the third of March, one thousand eight
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Chap. XLIII.— An Act *in Amendment of an Act entitled “An Act to amend the Act entitled ‘An Act to reduce the Rates of Postage, to limit the Use and correct the Abuse of the Franking Privilege, and for the Prevention of Fraud on the Revenues of the Post-Office Department,’” passed the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty free.* May 17, 1848. 1845, ch. 43. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the rates of Commissions allowed to postmasters to be reckoned on the quarters.commissions authorized to be paid to postmasters by the first section of said act, shall be allowed and paid to them on the amount of postage received in each quarter of the year, and in due proportion for any period less than a quarter, instead of being allowed and paid on the amount received for a year, as was by mistake provided for in said act.
Act made retrospective. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That all postmasters whose commissions have been diminished by their being allowed and paid on the amount of postage received in a year, instead of on the amount received in a quarter, shall be permitted to resettle and adjust their accounts according to the first section of this act, and shall be allowed and paid such sum as may be justly found their due on such resettlement of their accounts. Postmaster-general authorized to employ additional clerks.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the postmaster-general be authorized to employ, temporarily, such additional clerks as may be found necessary for the resettlement of the accounts of postmasters authorized by this act. Additional compensation when mail arrives at night. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That, to the postmasters at offices where the mail is regularly to arrive between the hours of nine o’clock at night and five in the morning, the commission on the first hundred dollars collected in one quarter may be increased by the postmaster-general to a sum not exceeding fifty per cent.
Approved, May 17, 1848.