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 476 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 3546. 1906. D*¤¤’“’“‘*°”· For pay of agents and assistants to distribute postal cards, and ex uses of agency, five thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars. smp, ew.,1eue¤. hir ship, steamboat, and way letters, five hundred dollars. 1m1¤m¤££1y,1¤¤: mg- For payment of limited indemnity for the loss of pieces of firstl‘"“"°° ‘ class registered matter, five thousan dollars. _ ·rmve1,m. Fortravel and miscellaneous expenses in the postal service, office of the Third Assistant Postmaster-General, one thousand dollars. _ speeraiwuqsei, The appro riation for the fiscal year nrneteen hundred and six of YQH mm P""` twenty-five tliiousand dollars for the employment of special counsel to "°*· $3- ¥’· *‘”°· prosecute and defend suits affecting the second—class mailing privilege rs hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year mneteen hundred and seven. _ PF¤¤r¢h A¤2l_¤_,¤¤¤¢ ormcn or rm: rouaru Assrsranr rosrmnsrna-GENERAL. Supplies. surrmns non rosrn. smzvrcm. S°‘°*°“°’>’· Fog stationery, including all money—order offices, eighty-five thousand ollars. Omml "“"°l°P°’· 1:] or official, registry, and dead-letter envelopes, two hundred thousan - dollars. E'“'°‘°P°°°’“”°°”· The Postmaster-General is authorized to extend, for a period not exceeding six months, the contract for official, registry, and deadletter envelopes for the postal service for the calendar year ending Envelopes rm ul December thirty·iirst, nineteen hundred and six; and thereafter the ?,°K§`Q”L'L`{°,'§i,“§i"}KlY° Postmaster-General shall contract, for a period not exceeding four years, for all envelopes, stamped or otherwise, designed for sale to the public or for use by the P0st—Ollice Department, the postal service, and other Executive Departments, and all Government bureaus and establishments, and the branches of the service coming under their jurisdiction, and may contract for them to be plain or with such printed matter as may be prescribed by the Department makin requi- mtm_Hm_ sition therefor: Provided, That no envelope shall be sold by the Govneu. ernment containing any lithographing or engraving, nor any printing nor advertisement, except a printed request to return the letter to the writer. eg¤¤¢¥*>=¤<¤*>l¤·¤=¤· For blanks, blank books, printed and engraved matter, binding and ' carbon paper for the money-order service, one hundred and seventy- tive thousand dollars. R¤¢*·¤v¤*¤¤k¤-¤¤·· For blanks, books, and printed matterof urgent or special character, including the preparation, publication, and free_distr1bution by postmasters to the public of a plamphlet containing general postal information, intaglio seals, and other miscellaneous items of immediate neccssrtg for  e registrysystem, five thousand dollars. p,g¥·¤¤¤*¢fY wv- upplres for the c1ty—delivery service, including letter boxes, pack- ' age boxes, posts, furniture, satchcls, straps, baskets, time cards, timecard frames, time—recorder supplies, freight, ackage and cartage charges, maps and transfer designs and stencds, one hundred and twentyftive thousand dollars. . ¤m¤8· M-- For postmarkintg, rating, and money-order stamps, and repairs to same, mk and pa s for stamping and canceling purposes, and year blocks for old postmarking stamps, not to exceed four consecutive years for each stamp, thirty-five thousand dollars. S°"°“· °’°· For letter balances, scales, and test weights, and repairs to same, and for_tape measures, lifteen thousand dollars. “"°¥’P*°¤ P°¥’°'· bor wrapping paper, thirteen thousand dollars. "‘“*‘· d E or wrapping twine and tying devices, two hundred thousand o ars. P'·°"‘°‘ *’°f““· °‘°· d or packing boxes, sawdust, paste, and hardware, two thousand o ars.