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 194 FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cx. 245, 246. 1868. F\'°€<lY¤°¤’$ soldiers, sailors, and marines, or their heirs, shall be continued as now B°'°°u' provided by law until otherwise ordered by act of Congress. SCHUYLER COLFAX, Speaker of the House of Representatrives. B. F. WADE, President of the Senate pro tempore. IN Smmrm or run Uurrso Srnrrs, July 25, 1868. The President of the United States having returned to the Senate, in which it originated, the bill entitled "An act relating to the Freedmen’s Bureau and providing for its Discontinuance," with his objections thereto, the Senate proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsider the Same ; and Resolved, That the said bill do pass, two thirds of the Senate agreeing to pass the same. Attest: GEO. C. GORHAM, Secretary ty the Senate. IN rum House or Rnrnmsnuurivns, U. S., July 25th, 1868. The House of Representatives having proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsider the bill entitled "An act relating to the Freedmen’s Bureau and providing For its Discontinuance," returned to the Senate by the President of the United States, with his objections, and sent by the Senate to the House of Representatives, with the message of the President returning the bill- Resolved, That the bill do pass, two thirds of the House ot" Representatives agreeing to pass the same. Attest: EDWD. McPHERSON, Clerk H R. U S July 27, 1868- CHAP. CCXLVI. — An Act to further amend the postal Laws. Be it enacted by the Senate and House if Representatives of the United cerntm tm. States of America in Oonyress assembled, That when any writer of a . €;*la;‘l;;*;‘“}§;:{’” letter, on which the postage is prepaid, shall endorse in writing or in to mm,, with, print upon the outside thereof his name and address, the same, after reout additional maining unclallcd [uncalled] for at the post-office to which it is directed l’°“l'“€°‘ thirty days, or the time the writer may direct, shall be returned to the said writer without additional postage, whether a specinc request for such return be endorsed on the letter or not. mgljsmgiggfgf Sec. 2. And be it furtherenacted, That all persons who receive money yorders shall be required to pay therefor the Following charges or fees, viz. For one dollar or any Sum not exceeding twenty dollars, a fee of ten cents shall be charged and exacted by the postmaster giving said order; for all orders exceeding twenty dollars and not exceeding thirty dollars, the charge shall be fifteen cents; for all orders exceeding thirty dollars and not exceeding forty dollars, the fee shall be twenty cents; for all orders exceeding forty dollars and not exceeding fifty dollars, the fee shall Psy <>fp<>¤t· be twenty-five cents; and furthermore that the compensation of deputy y or er , business. one eighth to one fourth of one per centum on the gross amount of orders paid at their respective offices, and that nothing contained in any act shall be so construed as to deprive postmasters at money—order offices of the 1864,_ph. sv. compensation for transacting the money-order business fixed by the act of V°1‘ xm P· 7°· May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and modified as stated in this section: Provided always, That the amount of such annual com-
 * l;’" ff lh° postmasters for the payment of money orders is hereby inereasedfrom