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 386 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. H. Ch. 342. 1885. C a n c s 1 i n g For post»marking, canceling, and rating stamps, and ink and pads, ¤¤¤mp¤» etc- twenty thousand dollars. Ba 1 a n c c s, For letter-balances, test-weights, and scales, twenty thousand dol- WiightS,BDdlam_ - wiz:;}, lig n t, For rent, light, and the], four hundred and ninety thousand dollars. f¤*>l· That the Postmaster-General may in the disbursement of this appropriation, apply part thereof to the purpose of leasing premises for use tor post-oflices of the first, second, and third classes at a reasonable annual rental, to be paid quarterly for a term not exceeding five years ; Leasing premises and whenever any building or part of a building under lease becomes M P°¤*·°**°°¤ °*` unfit for use as a post-oillce, no rent shall be paid until the same shall “"°,r 3 $2 '“'d be put in a satisfactory condition by the owner thereof for occupation. as a postoffice, or the lease may be canceled, at the option of the Postmaster-General; and a lease shall cease and terminate whenever a post-~ odlce can be moved into a Government building Safes; furniture. For safes and other office furniture, thirty thousand dollars. Stationery. For stationery, sixty-tive thousand dollars. mscsuanecns. For miscellaneous and incidental expenses of post-offices, including repairs, gas-fixtures, and telegrams, eighty thousand dollars. Inland mnspor- Orrrcn or rim Sncorm Assrsrsucr P0s1*1usrm1z·GEN1¤nAL.—For- ¤¤ti¤¤ of mails- inland mail transportation, namely: For transportation on railroad » Railroads, fail- routes, fourteen million and ten thousand dollars; and if any railroad urp to www company shall fail or refuse to transport the mails, when required by mb? P°“°1’Y· the Post·Oniee Department, upon the fastest train or trains run upon said road, said company shall have its pay reduced fifty per centum ot the amount provided by law. Railway post - For railway postollice-ear service, one million seven hundred and cmcc car service. sixty-five thousand and twenty-six dollars. Special facilities For necessary and special facilities on trunk lines, two hundred and on mink lines. sixty-six thousand seven hundred and sixty-four dollars. gmmmt_ For inland transportation by steamboat routes, six hundrediand fifteen thousand dollars. The Postmaster-General is authorized to contract for inland and foreign steamboat mail service, when it can be combined in one route, where the foreign odlce or oiilces are not more than two hundred miles distant from the domestic office, on the same terms and · conditions as inland steamboat service, and pay for the same out of the appropriation for inland steamboat service. sm: routes. For inland transportation by star routes, live million nine hundred thousand dollars. . Railwa post- For railway postotiice clerks, four million six hundred and eighty- 0Bce chris. two thousand three hundred dollars. Mnibmesseugcrs I For maibmessengers, nine hundred and seventy-tive thousand dollars. Lccks and keys. For mail locks and keys, twenty thousand dollars. Mail-bags. For mail-bags and mailbag catchers, including full compensation (not exceeding five hundred dollars) for the whole and exclusive right of letters patent numbered two hundred and nine thousand eight hundred and twenty, granted November twelfth eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, to A. V. Lunger, for a clamp for mailbag cranes, two hundred and seventy-tive thousand dollars. rtcms. For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars. rims Assistant Omvron or rim Trmzn Assrsnrzr Posrinsernn-Gnnnnsr.-For E: ¤ *· {¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ · F - manufacture of adhesive postage stamps and of newspaper arid period ggés_ ical stamps, one hundred and seventyfour thousand dollars. That upon all matter of the first class, as defined by chapter one hundred and eighty of the laws of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred 1879,3*31- 20. vb- and seventynine, entitled “An act making appropriations for the servl‘*‘°·P· *’”‘· ice of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thir- _ tieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purp0ses,” and by that ”·P· · ounce or fraction thereof and reduced by the act of March third,
 * ¤83kg¤l· 21 cb- act declared subiect to postage at the rate of three cents for each half-