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 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 342. 1885. 387 eighteen hundred und eighty-three, to two cents for each half ounce or Two WMS f¤ r fraction thereof, postage shall be charged, on and after the first day of hl;1£°‘;3°;0li“:’g July, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, at the rate of two cents for :,,,m_,gf,,r0um,,_ each ounce or ilaction thereof ; and drop letters shall be mailed at the Drop-letters rate of two cents per ounce or haction thereof, including delivery at Wi¢h<>¤t M6 <I¢iivletter-carrier offices, and one cent for each ounce or fraction thereof g’u{{c8°”° “°“ P°' where free delivery by carrier is not established. That all publications ` of the second class, except as provided in section twenty-five of said act, when sent by the publisher thereof, and from the odlce of publication, including sample copies, or when sent from a news agency to actual subscribers thereto, or to other news agent, shall, on and after July irst, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, be entitled to transmission through the mails at one cent a. pound or a. fraction thereof, such postage to be prepaid as now provided by law. A.nd any article or item in any newspaper or other publication may be marked for observation, except by written or printed word, without increase of postage. For pay of agent and assistants to distribute stamps, and expenses Distributing of the agency, eight thousand one hundred dollars. *8*1***- For manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper-wrappers and Stamped envel- Iettersheets, seven hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. °P¤¤» ¤¤*¤P¤l;¤* gapg and et- For pay of agent and assistants to distribute stamped envelopes, Distributing newspaper-wrappers, and letter-sheets, and expenses of agency, sixteen ¤·8¤¤*¤· thousand dollars. For manufacture of postal cards, two hundred and thixtymine thou- Postal cards. sand dollars. ‘ For payof agent and assistants to distribute postal cards, and ex- Distributing penses of agency, seven thousand three hundred dollars. *8****6- · For registexedpackage envelopes, locks and seals, and for office en- Regimi·ed-pmkgellppes. and for dead·letter envelopes, one hundred and forty thousand ¤z<• ¤¤¤‘•l¤1¤>¤. ¤w- o ars. For ship, steamboat, and way letters, two thousand dollars. e1nip,¤¤::;¤boa1:, • 811 Wl BIB. For engraving, printing, and binding drafts and warrants, two thou- Engrzvhig, etc. sand dollars. For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars. Miscellaneous. 0F1H0m OF Surmkmrmnmr OF Fo1am6N MA1Ls.-—I•‘or transpor- Foreign mails. tation of foreign mails, including railway transit across the Isthmus of _ Panama, eight hundred thousand dollars. And the Postmaster-General Pmmmer-Gem is hereby authorized to enter into contracts for the transportation of any *****1 *° °°¤¤?*°* fl"' part of said foreign mails, alter legal advertisement with the lowest t"“°P°"“1”°“ °f‘ responsible bidder, at a rate not exceeding fifty cents a nautical mile on the trip each way actually travelled between the terminal points: Pro- Provbo. vided, That the mails socoutracted shall be carried on American steam- T° N ¤¤ 4¤¤¤1'i· ships, and that the aggregate of such contracts shall not exceed one- °°“ “t°““”b‘P" half of the sum hereby appropriated. For balances due foreign countries, seventy-five thousand dollars, in- Bahama due for~ oluding the United Stated portion of the expenses of the International ¤is¤ ¤¤¤¤¤i¢¤· Bureau of whe Universal Postal Union Convention. Sec. 2. That if the revenues of the Post Office Department shall be Apfmdpnacioum insufficient to meet the appropriations made by this act, e sum equal to 9¤1>&! ¤¤¤i¤¤¤*¤¤_ such detlciency of the revenues of said Department is hereby appropria- §m3£:%a;£ ted, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro- m,m,_ priated, to supply the said deficiencies in the revenue of the Post Omoo Department for the y em- ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six. Sec. 3. That a special stamp of the face valuation of ten cents may Special ummp be provided and issued, whenever deemed advisable or expedient, in may be issued. such form and bearing such device es may meet the approval of the Postmaster-General, which, when attached to a letter, in addition to the lu wful postage thereon, the delivery of which is to be at afree delivery