United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/8th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 16
[Expired.]
Chap. XVI.—An Act authorizing the Postmaster-General to make a new contract for carrying the mail from Fayetteville, in North Carolina, to Charleston, in South Carolina.
Postmaster-General authorized to make a new contract for carrying the mail between Fayetteville and Charleston.
Proviso.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster-General shall be, and hereby is authorized to make a new contract for carrying the mail in a line of stages between the town of Fayetteville, in the state of North Carolina, and the city of Charleston, in the state of South Carolina, upon such terms and conditions as he may deem most conducive to the interest of the United States: Provided, that he does not exceed the sum of four thousand two hundred dollars, annually, beyond the amount of the present contract; and that no contract made in virtue of this act shall extend beyond the time to which the present contract extends.
Approved, Feb. 14, 1805.