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 THIRTY·THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 271, 273. 1854. 589 money in the t1‘€2LSl1I‘y Y10f 0tllGI‘WiS€ appropriated, 21 commission of one 1855, ch. 201, mm pei- pound upon the agregate weight of public documents printed by 9 2- order of Congress and deposited in the office of said postmaster, to be mailed; this allowance to commence with the passage of this act and to continue for one year only, and to be computed from the ascertained weight for the month of January eighteen hundred and fifty-four. And that the said postmaster be required to pay out of the said commissions to the clerks and other employees of his office a sum not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars each, per annum, as compensation for the extra labor performed by them in the assortment and mailing of said documents ; and that he be required to account for, and settle with the Post»Oi‘iice Department, for the disbursement of these commissions, and any surplus that may rernain; in the same manner as is now required in the settlement of his other accounts. Sho. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Postmaster-General be Mailservice on authorized and directed to establish amail on the Mississippi River, from 2*9 M;“l§SlPPi» Cairo to New Orleans, and from Keokuk, Iowa, to Galena, in Illinois, Oiiggns? ag? and that he contract for the same in one line or in such divisions or sec- from Kwkuk W tions or both as may be most compatible with the public service, and to G“l°“*" facilitate the execution of this section the Postmaster-General may make immediate temporary arrangements for carrying said mail by the trip, and if he fails to obtain acceptable bids after advertising for thirty days, he may make private contracts for carrying said mail, and the said mail shall be carried daily from Cairo to New Orleans; but the Postmaster- General is authorized at his discretion to restrict the delivery of the mail at all other points than Cairo,Memphis, Napoleon, Vicksburg, Natchez, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans, to three mails a week each way. Provided, Nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to impair the rights of parties heretofore contracting for said service. APPROVED, August 5, 1854. CHA?. CCLXXI. - An Act to estabhsh certain Additional Post Roads. A¤8· 5, 1854- Be ii enacted (rg the Senate and Muse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following be established as post roads: bz Mssissippi. -— From Grenada to a point on Tallahatcha River, near Mississippi. Dudley S. Benne’tt’s plantation. From Philadelphia to Pensacola. In Louisiana.- From Greensburg to a point intersecting the railroad Louisiana. from New Orleans to Jackson, Mississippi, at or near the house of Benjamin Weil. In Wrginia. —— From Muddy Creek, in Preston county, via Greens- Virgi¤i¤· burg, Cranesville, Old Lang run, and Aceidenoe, to Addison in Maryland. In Texas. -— From Johns0n’s Station, via Fort Worth, to Fort Bel- Texas. kna . IS Iowa.- From Fort Madison, via West Point and Big Mound, to Iowa. Keosauqua. Arnnovnn, August 5, 1854. l.XX`l i-- Act ¢oP cal the rst roviso 0 the our!/2 section 0 the Act An . 5, 1854. Cgggtlecgq An acgléranégzg Bounty Amnd to cgtaid) Officeyg an{Scldiers who gave been "_`§"°""""" engaged in the Militayy Service X the United States," approved September lwenty-ezghdz, one thousand eight hundred and _/Zy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 0g5g2i;;;?; States of America in Congress assembled, That the first proviso of the P_ 576,] fourth section of the act entitled “An act granting bounty land to certain ofiicers and soldiers who have been engaged in the military service of; the United States," approved September twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, be, and the same is hereby repealed. Approved, August 5, 1854.