964 FIFTYFIFTH CON GRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 327. 1899. R¤P¤¤‘ ¤*¤°P- For rent of building for a mail—bag repair shop and lock-repair shop, and for fuel, gas, watchmen and charwoman, oil, and repair of machinery for said shops, eight thousand five hundred dollars. R¤i1¤>··!¤<>¤¤*¤- For inland transportation by railroad routes, of which a sum not · 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, thirty-three million two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. P¤·*<*¤°¤ *=¤·· For railway postoffice car service, tour million two hundred and four thousand five hundred dollars. R‘“"*¥""“°‘°'*“· For railway post-oliice clerks, eight million seven hundred and sixty- five 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 Post-
. master~Gcneral; Provided, That the Postmaster General may allow
_`“"°'"°°'railway postal clerks whose duties require them to work six days or _ more per week, fifty-two weeks per year, an annual vacation of fifteen , — days with pay, and the sum of thirty-one thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for this purpose. ‘ _ ¤¤¤¤·i¤ Md ¤=l>l· For inland transportation of mail by electric and cable cars on routes W °°"i°°` not exceeding twenty miles in length, three hundred and fifty thousand 5‘j)·>;ig;·““w 0, dollars: Provided, That the rate of compensation to be paid per mile present mcs. shall not exceed the amoiint now received by companies performing said service. Special f=¤¤i¤¤¤- For necessary and special facilities on trunk lines from New York and Waslnington to Atlanta and New Orleans, one hundred and seventy- ono thousand two hundred and thirty-eight dollars and seventynve P”*"•°- 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 continuing necessary and special facilities on.trnnk lines from Kansas City, Missouri, to Newton, Kansas, twenty-five thousand dolm°;’,';§?(';Q¤§f,f°”" lars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended unless the Postmaster-General shall deem such expenditure necessary in order to promote the interest _ of the postal service. _ M‘°°°"““°°“" For miscellaneous items, including railway guides, city directories, and other books and periodicals necessary in connection with mail _ _ transportation, one thousand dollars. · SQQLQQ "g*}2§;,,,,,,,, For transportation of foreign mails, two million one hundred and Company- fifty-four thousand dollars, including additional compensation to the Oceanic Steamship Company for transporting the mails by its steamers sailing from San Francisco to New Zealand and New South Wales by way of Honolulu, all mails made up in the United States destined for hmm the Hawaiian Islands, the Australian colonies, New Caledonia, and the Limit.islands in the Pacific Ocean, eighty thousand dollars: Provided, That the sum paid the said Oceanic Steamship Company shall not exceed two dollars per mile, as authorized by Act of March third, eighteen Wl-2°·P·832· hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An Act to provide for ocean mail service between the United States and foreign ports, and to promote Clerks <>¤ ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤· commerce :” And provided further, That hereafter the Postmaster—General shall be authorized to expend such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding fifty-five thousand dollars, to cover onehalf of the cost of transportation, compensation, and expense of clerks to be employed in asserting and pouching mails in transit on steamships between the United States and other postal administrations in the International rmccrcm an Ncw Postal Union; and not exceeding forty thousand dollars for transferring Y°"‘· the foreign mail from incoming steamships in New York Bay to the several steamship and railway piers, and between the steamship piers in New York City and Jersey City and the post·office and railroad San Francisco. stations, and for transferring the foreign mail from incoming steamships in San Francisco Bay to the piers.
