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 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 702, 715, 716. 1888. 347 For manufacture of postal cards, two hundred and twelve thou- P<>S¤¤1¢¤¤d¤- sand four hundred and fifty-tive dollars. For the pay of agent and assistants to distribute postal cards, and DiS"“°“*i°”· expenses of agency, seven thousand eight hundred dollars. For registered package, tag, and official and dead—letter envelopes, Omcial. em., envel— one hundred and two thousand eight hundred and sixty-six dollars. °p”` d Ilior ship, steam—boat, and way letters, two thousand Eve hundred Ship, GW-· letters- 0 ars. H For eriggavipg, (pricptpig, and binding drafts and warrants, two P¤¤¤¤s·¤¤<=-.drafrs. iousanr ve un re dollars. For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars. That hereafter the postage on seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots, scions, mggstagf 0¤ Seeds. and plants shall be charged at the rate of one cent for each two ounces ’€ ' or fraction thereof, subject in all other respects to the existing law. OFFICE SUPERINTENDENT FOREIGN MAILS. fof;;g¥;€I;l;$;¤¤d¢¤¤ hFor tr(.£,15sfiprtation of foreign mails, five hundred and forty-seven Tm¤SP<>¤¤¤<>¤- thousand dollars. For balance due foreign countries, seventy-five thousand dollars. c0§:l*g*;S° due f<>¤*iH¤ Sec. 2. That if the revenues of the Post Office Department shall Appropriationto be insufficient to meet the appropriations made by this act, a sum "‘°°° d"°°"°’"°'°*· equal to such denciency of the revenues of said Department is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply said deficiencies in the revenue of the Post-Cflice Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine. Approved, July- 24, 1888. CHAP. 715.-An act to construct a road to the national cemetery at Baton Rouge, July 25, 1888. Louisiana. W"` Be tt enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of rogpgggjggggcgor fifteen thousan dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out ezery, Baton nougng; of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for_the M- pu ose of constructing a gravelled road from the Mississippi River to the national cemetery at Baton Rouge, in the State of Louisiana: Provided. That said road Shall be constructed under the supervision mmm. of the Secretary of War upon a contract let to the lowest bidder; Contract. And provided further, That the city of Baton Rouge shall bind itself to keep the road in thorough repair and in goo condition, and 1f Rewrnecessary, to further bind itself to put in suitable curbs and gutters on each side of said road. Approved, July 25, 1888. CHAP. 'l16.——-An act grantin to the Newport and Kings Valley Railroad Com- July 26. 1888. pany the right of way through the Siletz Indian Reservation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the T _ _ United States of America in Congress assembled, That the right ot `.$$;jP§;Qlj;‘,$,Ké';§n§ Way is hereby granted to the Newport and Kings’ Valley Railroad Rzlnxgggziusgggtpr Company. a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the dg, R€S,,,§{.m,n_ State of Oregon, for the construction of its railroad through the Siletz Indian Reservation, beginning at a point on the easterly line of said reservation where Rock Creek crosses said line and running thence westerly down the valley of Rock Creek and the valley of Siletz River to the western boundary of said reservation at or near the southwest corner thereof.