the balances due from every such delinquent shall be charged to, and recoverable from the Postmaster General.
Appropriation of penalties under this act.Sec. 25. And be it further enacted, That all pecuniary penalties and forfeitures, incurred under this act, shall be, one half for the use of the person or persons informing and prosecuting for the same, the other half to the use of the United States.
P. M. Gen. to make provision for receipt of letters sent or received by sea.Sec. 26. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Postmaster General, to make provision, where it may be necessary, for the receipt of all letters and packets intended to be conveyed by any ship or vessel, beyond sea, or from any port of the United States to another port therein; and the letters so received shall be formed into a mail, sealed up, and directed to the postmaster of the port to which such ship or vessel shall be bound. And for every letter or packet so received, there shall be paid, at the time of its reception, a postage of one cent. And the Postmaster General may make arrangements with the postmasters in any foreign country for the reciprocal receipt and delivery of letters and packets, through the post-offices.
Postmasters &c. exempt from militia duty.Sec. 27. And be it further enacted, That the deputy postmasters, and the persons employed in the transportation of the mail, shall be exempt from militia duties, or any fine or penalty for neglect thereof.
Appropriations of surplus revenue of general post-office.Sec. 28. And be it further enacted, That all the surplus revenue of the general post-office, which shall have accrued, previous to the first day of June next, not heretofore appropriated, be and the same is hereby appropriated towards defraying any deficiency which may arise in the revenue of the said department for the year next ensuing.
Former acts continued till 1st June.
1791, ch. 23.Sec. 29. And be it further enacted, That the act passed the last session of Congress, intituled “An act to continue in force, for a limited time, an act, intituled ‘An act for the temporary establishment of the post-office,’” be, and the same is hereby continued in full force, until the first day of June next, and no longer.
Limitation of this act.Sec. 30. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force for the term of two years, from the said first day of June next, and no longer.
Approved, February 20, 1792.
Statute Ⅰ.March 1, 1792
[Obsolete.]
Chap. VIII.—An Act relative to the Election of a President and Vice President of the United States, and declaring the Officer who shall act as President in case of Vacancies in the offices both of President and Vice President.
March 26, 1804, ch. 50.
States how to appoint electors for election of president and vice president; when to meet and vote;Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That except in case of an election of a President and Vice President of the United States, prior to the ordinary period as herein after specified, electors shall be appointed in each state for the election of a President and Vice President of the United States, within thirty-four days preceding the first Wednesday in December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and within thirty-four days preceding the first Wednesday in December in every fourth year succeeding the last election, which electors shall be equal to the number of Senators and Representatives, to which the several states may by law be entitled at the time, when the President and Vice President, thus to be chosen, should come into office: Provided always, That where no apportionment of Representatives shall have been made after any enumeration, at the time of choosing electors, then the number of electors shall be according to the existing apportionment of Senators and Representatives.
