FORTYJDHIRD CONGRESS. Sess. 1. GH. 456. 1874. 231 CHAP. 456.-An act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Depart- June 23, 1874. ment for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventyitlve, "'_""“""_‘ and for other purposes. Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Appropriation for States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, the P¤¤¤·O¤*¤<= D¤· and the same are hereby, appropriated for the service of the Post-Oihce §Q;;Q“°“;af°;m$° Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and gum, 38; ;8q;,_ g seventy-ve, out of any money in the Treasury arising from the rev· 1836, cb_2`70’·v0]_ enues of said Department, in conformity to the not of July second, v, p. 80. eighteen hundred and thirty-six, as follows: Post, 413. For inland-mail transportation, sixteen million four hundred thousand Inland mniltmns dollars, portutiou. For pay of mail messengers, six hundred and forty-three thousand M“‘1m°'“°”€°”· five hundred and thirty-three dollars. For pay of route-agents, nine hundred and twenty-nine thousand and R°“*°"‘€°“**-‘· thirtynve dollars. For pay of mail-route messengers, one hundred and sixty thousand M=¤iI·*°¤*° m°¤· dollars.“°"g°*“· For pay of local agents, one hundred and ten thousand three hundred I-<>°¤l ¤S°¤*>¤· and eighty-three dollars. _ For pay of railway-post-office clerks, one million three hundred ond £c§Ql;‘fQ§‘P°”*‘°f‘ twenty thousand and fourteen dollars. ` For pay of bnggege·masters, one thousand dollars. IE*‘8S°¤°‘“‘°¥“°”· For foreign-mail transportation, three hundred and twenty-five thou- I°""g“ ******1*** sand dollars. d ger ship, steamboat, and way letters, seven thousand five hundred Shim &¤·»1¤**¤Y¤· o ers. For pay of postmnsters, six million five hundred thousand dollars. P°“*‘“““t°’“· For pay of clerks for post-offices, three million two hundred ond fifty C1°”k“· thousand dollars. _ For pay of letter-carriers, one million and nine hundred thousand L‘*'°*“·°‘""‘*“*- dollars: ,Pro1>ided,..That hereafter letter-carriers shall not be employed 1N°Q1*P bi °“" for the free delivery of ma,il·matter in towns and cities whose popular '{‘0§B”g§§§ tion within their corporate limits, as shown by the last report of the 30,000 population. national census or by any subsequent census teken in pursuance of State statute or by order of the mayor and common council of such town or city, shall be less than thirty thousand; but this proviso shall _ _ not afteot the free delivery in towns and cities where it is new estab- F}‘°°‘ {?°}1*V(f’*°S lished. And for the more eilieient management of the freedelivery §§~Q°Q;f“’ ‘° ° ”°° system, the Postmuster—General may designate o. fourth class clerk to i act as superintendent of free·delivery in the Post-Office Department at f S¤g¤{}¤*¢1¤d*¤¤*<>f im annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars; and for this "g°1°“'°rY‘ purpose the sum of seven hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out “M5" · of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. F O1' W1‘8»pplDg`·p2l,pBI’, i9W6l1ty—SOV6D {3h011S8d1d dO]]31‘8. V\'r:1.pping-paper. For twine, fortyeight thousand dollars. Twin For letter-balances, three thousand dollars. L0tt0r_ba1u1] ccs_ For office furniture, six thousand five hundred dollars. OMB i-ummm_ For advertising, eighty thousand dollars: Provided, That hereafter no Advmmw payment shall be made to any newspaper published in the District of iéolmimbie for advertising any other routes than those in Virginia and No pm for, &c. ztr lend. ‘ Fgr manufacture of adhesive postage-stamps, one hundred and eighteen p.,mgG.mmps_ thousand six hundred and sixty-seven dollars. ’ For stumped envelopes and wrappers, five hundred and thirtynve Sdampedanval. thousand four hundred and twenty-tour dollars: Provided, That here opes. after no envelope, esfurnished by the Government, shell contain any lith- Not to comm] &c ograpbing and engraving, nor any prmting except 2. printed request to return the letter to the writer. D. .b . For pay of distributing agents, and assistants; ten thouand two hun— uga5b2t' ‘ “ ° ‘ “K dred dollars. `
