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 FIFl}Y»TllIlll) CONGRESS. Sess. ll. Ch. 137. ISM. 105 be required to report to the next session of Congress such measure as he may deem practical for extending inail service to rural districts and the probable cost of such extension. For stationery i11 post—offices, fifty-seven thousand dollars. smatuuy. For wrapping twine, eighty thousand dollars. Twine. For wrapping paper, fifty thousand dollars. Pew- For letter balances, scales, and test weights, and repairs to same, SM165- nfteen thousand dollars. For postmarking and rating stamps and repairs to same, and ink and `,fu*;¤°°**¤·S’- °*<‘·· pads for stamping and canceling purposes, thirty thousand dollars.( ps" For packingboxes, sawdust, paste, and hardware, one thousand live l’¤¤ki¤e—b<>¤<¤¤»·¤f¢· hundred dollars. For printing facing slips and cutting same, card slide—labels, blanks, P'i”““g· » and books of an urgent nature for the postal service, ten thousand dollars. For purchase or rental of canceling machines, sixty thousand dollars. C=¤¤<><>1i¤sr¤¤c1»i¤¤¤· OFFICE OF THE Snoorm ASSISTANT POST)IASTER—GENERAL. S¢<=·¤¤d é¤¤i¤*>¤¤* Postmastemxeneral. For inland mail transportation, namely: Inland transportation by Inland mil trans-— star routes, including temporary service to newly established offices, p°§{QjT}’§g,,,,.,.,_ six million dollars. - For inland transportation by steamboat routes, four hundred and smmtm routes. twenty thousand dollars. For mail messenger service, one million two hundred and eighty-tive Memvger servicethousand dollars. » . For mail bags and mail-bag catchers, cord fasteners, label cases, and B*é’*·°¤*°b°”·°*¤· for labor and material necessary for repairing equipment, two hundred · and seventy thousand dollars. For mail locks and keys, chains, tools, and machinery, and for labor L°“k*~k°*"‘·°*“· and material necessary for repairing same, thirty-tive thousand dollars. For the purpose of enabling the Postmaster-General to rent a build» R·¤v¤ir ¤*¤¤1>— ing for a mail-bag repair shop and lock-repair shop, and for fuel, gas, watchmen and charwomen, oil, and repair of machinery for same, eight thousand Eve hundred dollars. V For inland transportation by railroad routes, of which a sum not R““’°““ ’°“*°¤· exceeding thirty thousand dollars may be employed to pay freight on postal cards, stamped envelopes, and stamped paper, and other supplies from the manufactories to the postptlices and depots of distribution, twentynve million five hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That {*‘¢{¤{;*¤j-, _ _ ,. 0 from and after the passage of this Act all periodical publications issued emit; :$Jii'f» stvdui from a known place of publication at stated intervals and as frequently °‘*"'*· as tour times a year by or under the auspices of a benevolent or fraternal society or order organized under the lodge system and having a bona tide membership of not less than one thousand persons or by a regularly incorporated institution of learning or by or under the auspices of a trades union and all publications of strictly professional, literary, historical, or scientific societies including the bulletins issued by State boards of health shall be admitted to the mails as second class matter and the postage thereon shall be the same as on other second class matter and no more: 1’rov;ided, fm·tl1e1·, That such matter shall Limi¤·¤<>¤· be originated and published to further the objects and purposes of such society, order, trades union, or institution of learning and shall be formed of printed paper sheets without board, cloth, leather or other substantial binding such as distinguish printed books for preservation irom periodical publications. _ For railway post-onice car service, three million dollars. . {Tm °“”‘_ For railway postoffice clerks, seven million one hundred and eighty- R’*"“"*>'"’“‘*°""‘“· pix thousand dollars, of which sum not to exceed fifteen pholpsaznd dg}- ars may be used to a necessar r traveling expenses o c iec er s 0 _ I and railway postal clgrks travelinyg on duty under order of the POSt— Tm h°g°m`°m‘ master-General. · _