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 THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 111. 1852. 111 of postage, approved third March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty- 1851, ch. 20. one, two million and twenty-two thousand dollars. For compensation to postmasters, being the difference between the sum of one million eight hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars ap~ propriated for the fiscal year ending thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, and the estimated amount of their compensation for the same year, including the additional allowances authorized by the sixth section of the act of third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, reducing the rates of postage, one hundred and forty-seven 185l»°h· 2°· thousand dollars. For clerks in the offices of postmasters, four hundred and thirty thousand dollars. For ship, steamboat, and way·letters, forty thousand dollars. For wrapping-paper, forty thousand dollars. I For office furniture, for the offices of postmasters, nine thousand dollars. For advertising, seventy thousand dollars. For mail-bags, fifty thousand dollars. For blanks, forty-five thousand dollars. For mail-locks, keys, and stamps, ten thousand dollars. For mail depredations and special agents, forty-five thousand dollars: Also twenty-five hundred dollars, out of which the Postmaster-General is directed to pay sixteen hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six Paymeutto the cents, to the late Assistant Postmaster·General, for his services per- €;‘f1£’“°““° P‘ formed by direction of the Postmaster-General subsequent to the first ' of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, when his resignation took effect, in the organization of the mail service in California, approved by the joint resolution " to legalize certain contracts for the transportation P05i. p. 145. of the mails in California and Oregon," approved January the thirteenth, eighteen hundred and nfty-two, and the residue, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be applied to settle and pay his expenses. For miscellaneous items, ninety thousand dollars. For postage stamps, twenty thousand dollars. For the publication of twenty-five thousand copies of the laws and regulations of the Post-Office Department, and for arrears on the table of post—oflices, seven thousand dollars. T o enable the Postmaster-General to contract for the transporting the Steamboat mail mail by steamboat from the Lake House to New Iberia, on the route six ggg;8L“;§°NcW thousand one hundred and sixteen from Donaldsonville to Washington, p,,,,.;,,, in the State of Louisiana, seven thousand dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Postmaster-General be, Resident agents and he is hereby, authorized, whenever he shall deem it discreet, to dis- ;';n£;gm“S °f pense with the route agents now sent with the mails from New York to ` California, and in lieu thereof to appoint not more than two resident agents to take charge of the mail service across the Isthmus of Panama, and to allow said agents for salary and personal expenses not exceeding three thousand dollars per year for each of such agents, which shall be paid out of the amount annually appropriated for the transportation of the mails. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the salary of the route Salary ¤f route agents bc, and the same is hereby, increased to one thousand dollars per ”‘g°mS‘ annum. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Postmaster·General be, Mail service and he is hereby authorized, if he shall deem it proper, to advertise for };j;"";,§`I‘G§f{ and establish service upon the regular mail-route between New Orleans pom. and certain Gulf ports of Florida. Add,,,,,,,.,,, Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Postmaster-General is mail trip on the authorized to contract with the Ocean Steam Navigation Company for g‘;"’§;e£§g 1,;*; one additional trip on the Havre line, and one additional trip on the Oy mmm,