FIF'l`Y—ElGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 1759. 1904. 437 postal clerks, while actually traveling on business of the Department and away from their several designated headquarters, twenty-one thousand dollars. For rent, light, fuel, telegraph, and miscellaneous office expenses, )I§*¤¤¤“¤¤·¤<>¤¤ exschedules of mail trains, telephone service, typewriting machines, and m m' badge for railway postal clerks, nfty thousand dollars. For per diem allowance of assistant superintendents, and for their su£g{,hffg,';€;§:i¤*°¤’ necessary official expenses not covered by their per diem allowance, ` not exceeding five thousand dollars, twenty-seven thousand dollars: Provided, That assistant superintendents may receive a per diem allow- mmance in lieu of actual and necessary travelin expenses at the rate of °w°°°°` four dollars per day while actually traveling on business of the Department. or inland transportation of mail by electric and cable cars, five S"°°* °“”· hundred and iiftv thousand dollars: Provided, That the rate of compen— §;°,g‘“p‘;, mm sation to be paid per mile shall not exceed the rate now paid to com- ` panics performing said service. For necessar and special facilities on trunk lines from Washington $$jf,l’}},*§g}}i”}g‘·A,_ to Atlanta and, New Orleans, one hundred and forty-two thousand Bmw wd New Orseven hundred and twenty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents: Pro- l°°§$,,;w_ vided, That no part of the appropriation made by this paraglraph shall °°'“’“*"”- be expended unless the Postmaster-General shall deem suc expenditure necessary in order to promote the interest of the postal service. For continuing necessary and special facilities on trunk lines from _ Kansas City, Missouri; to Newton, Kansas, twenty-five thousand dol- N§§,’},j,“]§°,{},*g;M°··‘° lars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Promfded, That no part of this appropriation hall be expended unless the Postmaster—General °°` shall deem such expenditure necessary in order to promote the interest of the postal service. For transportation of foreign mails, two million six hundred and §`,‘j,’,{'j,‘,‘,§$ fifty thousand dollars, including additional compensation to the Oceanic Steamship Company for transporting by its steamer sailing from San Francisco toTa iti all mails made up in the United States destined for _ the island of Tahiti, forty-tive thousand dollars: ]’rm,•ided, That the sum paid the said Oceanic Steamship Com any shall not e_xceed one dollar per mile, as authorized by Act of Llhrch third, eighteen hun- V°1·2°·p·8”· dred and ninety-one, entitled "An Act to provide for ocean mail service between the United States and foreign ports, and to promote gmk n wm commerce: B·0v£ded further, That hereafter the Postmaster—General snaps. S °` shall be authorized to expend such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding fifty-tive thousand dollars, to cover one-half of the cost of transportation, compensation, and expense of clerks to be employed in asserting and pouching mails in tiansit on steamships between the United States and other postal administrations in the International Postal Union, and not exceeding forty thousand dollars for transfer- gmrlgfer xw kvierg ring the foreign mail from incoming steamshigse in New York Bay to Smfrrsiilacéitsylf the several steamship and railway piers, and tween the steamship ‘ piers in New York (ity and Jersey City and the post-office and rai - road stations, and for transferring the foreign mail from incoming steamships in San Francisco Bay to the piers. For balances due foreign countries, one hundred and fifty-three dg_g¤3;1¤:¤m;¤¤ M- thousand dollars. ` For miscellaneous items, including railway guides, city directories ,JL;¤°€ll¤¤¤°¤¤ and other books and periodicals necessary in connection with ' transportation, one thousand dollars. orrrcrz or rms trump Assrsrarrr rostmasrnn-GENERAL. rum Assistant Postmaster-General. For manufacture of adhesive postage and special-delivery stamps, stamps. and books of stamps, four hundred and twenty-two thousand dollars.
