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 648 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. Il. Cris. 385, 386. 1897. E¤P°¤*“*¤*°¤· “Second. A report of the amount expended in the Department for the preceding fiscal year, including detailed statements of expenditures made from the contingent fund. ranting. “And the Postmaster·General shall cause all of such reports to be printed at the Public Printing Office, either together or separately, and in such numbers as may be required by the exigencies of the service or by law." Section four thousand and twenty of the Revised Statutes is hereby amended so as to read as follows: n§‘j,!;°}$*;},s*‘}'j_jlj;’j`€,0‘;f *‘SEo. 4020. The Postmaster-General may appoint two agents to R.S.,s8c.4020.p.776, superintend the railway postal service, each of whom shall be paid “‘“°“‘l°‘l‘ out of the appropriation for the transportation of the mail a salary at the rate of two thousand ive hundred dollars a year, with an allowance for traveling and incidental expenses, while actively employed in A°°°°”*°· the service, of not more than five dollars a day; and the Auditor for the Post-Oiiice Department shall charge to the appropriation for mail transportation the salary and per diem of the assistant superintendents of the postal-railway service, and to the appropriation for the freedelivery system the salary and per diem of the special agent detailed Mm Mm my for that service." tionery? Section four thousand and forty-eight of the Revised Statutes is mféf,égf°· ‘°“· P- "°· hereby repealed. rzsnmms in sean The Postmaster-General shall for the fiscal year eighteen hundred §’§_f""°1"°”“"' and ninety-nine, and annually thereafter, submit in the annual estimates to Congress estimates in detail as far as practicable for expenses of the free delivery service. . _:*L**g·g°*'*·*l lm'; Section four of the Act approved July sixteenth, eighteen hundred ·r¤ megan. and rrinety-four making appropriations for the service of the Post-Oihce '°'· !*“”· Department for the iiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, is hereby amended by inserting the word “seven" in place of the word “ten" wherever it occurs in the section. m_{r*é;•kr_§:;ge;¤ '*° That if the revenues of the Post·0tHce Department shall be insulti- ’cient to meet the appropriations made by this Act, a sum equal to such deficiency of the revenues of said Department is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any moneyin the Treasury 11ot otherwise appropriated, to supply said deficiencies in the revenues for the Post-Otiice Department ior the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. Approved, March 3, 1897. Mrwrh 3. 1897- CHAP. 386.-Au Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ""‘_""""_"‘ ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes. _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United m1:;‘j,Q§j0;‘j_f"’°° “l" States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the naval service of the Government lbr the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes: ¥’¤¥··¤" =l¤¤ N=¤‘>‘- rar or rrrr: NAVY. For the pay of officers on sea duty; officers on shore and other duty; officers on waiting orders; officers on the retired list; clerks to commandants of yards and stations; clerks to paymasters at yards and stations; general storekeepers; receiving ships and other vessels; extra pay to men reenlisting under honorable discharge; interest on deposits by men; pay of eleven thousand petty officers. seamen, landsmen, and boys. including men in the engineers force and for the Coast Survey Service and Fish Commission, and of seven hundred and nfty boys