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 684 THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 201. 1855. For blanks, eighty thousand dollars ; For mail·1ooks, keys, and stamps, fifteen thousand dollars; For mail depredations and special agents, fifty-eight thousand dollars; For clerks in the offices of postmasters, six hundred and seventy-five tnousand dollars: For postage stamps, and stamped envelopes, seventy thousand dollars; For miscellaneous items, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars ; W. M. F. Ma- For compensation to William M. F. Mcgraw, for carrying the mail on $'“W‘ route number eight thousand nine hundred and eleven, from Independence, Missouri, to Great Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, monthly, each way, according to the contract under which said service is now being performed, the sum of thirty-six thousand dollars per annum, commencing with the eighteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and continuing one year, and in lieu of the compensation therein stipulated: Provided, That the Postmaster-General, with the assent of tho contractors, be, and he is hereby, authorized to annul said contract. Also for compensation to J¤·¢<>l> UML Jacob Hall, for carrying the mail on route number eight thousand nine hundred and twelve, from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fé, Territory of New Mexico, monthly, each way, accordingto the contract under which said service is now being performed, the sum of twenty-two thousand dollars per annum, for one year, from the eighteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-four : Provided, That the Postmasto1·—General, with the assent of the contractors, bc, and he is hereby, authorized to annul said contract. _G· H- Grid- For compensation to George H. Giddings, for carrying the mail on d'"g°‘ route number twelve thousand nine hundred, from Santa Fé, New Mexico, to Sun Antonio, Texas, monthly, each way, according to the contract under which said service is now being performed, the sum of thirty-three thousand five hundred dollars per annum, commencing with the eighteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and continuing one year, and in lieu of the compensation therein stipulated: Provided, That the Postmaster-General with the assent of the contractors bo, and he Mlm °°'l"”"9*· is hereby, authorized to annul said cohtroct. And that each contractor ora in torrntorms . . . . . muy 05;,,;,];,,;, Bugaged, 01* to be engaged m cztrrying mulls through any of the Territories ¤¤¤Q§0¤S.?·¤d!}¤v¤ west of the Mississippi, shall have the privilege of occupying stations at l,]:g;°;Q,£°*°“ mgm the rate of not more than one for every twenty miles of the route on which he carries a mail, and shall have n preemptive right therein, when the same shsgll bi brought into market, to the extent of six hundred and forty acres to e ta on coutiguously, and to include his improvement; but no such preemptive right shall extend to any pass in a mountain or other dofile. mgfg; gg  Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the fourth section of the act 5,, ttm_ of Congress, approved fifth August, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, $$54, ¤l¤· 270· entitled, "An not making appropriations for the service of the Post—Otiicc Department, during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five," be, and the same is hereby continued for one year from August fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and that the allowance granted by said section to the deputy postmaster at Washington city, District of olumbia, of one mill per pound upon the aggregate weight of public documents printed by order of Congress, and de— posited in the office of the said postmaster to be mailed, shall be so construed as to commence on the fifth of August, eighteen hundred and fifty- t tree. mngfmgovxlrgtg $160-,8- And be it further enacted, That the Postmaster-General be, Fwmisco ,0 and he is hereby, nuthorized to establish and put in operation u. semiolympta. monthly mail, by sea, from Son Francisco, in the State of California, to Olympia, in the Territory of Washington, touching at Humboldt Bay, Trinidad, and Crescent City, in the State of California; Port Orford, Gardiner City or Umpqun, and Astoria, in the Territory of Oregon; Shoal Water Buy, Port Townsend, in the Territory of Vlfashingtong and