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 TWENTY—NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 31. 1846. [9 Can. XX XI. -.9:: Act making Hppraprmticns far the Service of the Past-Ojicc Jun; 19, {M6, Department for the Year ending (.·m·Lieth June, eighteen Iumdrod andfvrtyscvm. —·-—··—-·-·—· Ba it enacted by the Senate and House of Rqzrescntatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the Appmpmtioa service of the Post-Oilice Department, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fortyseven, out of any moneys in the treasury arising from the revenues of the said department, in COD- formity to the act of the second of July, eighteen hundred and thirty- six, namely: For transportation of the mails, two millions seven hundred thou- Tr¤n¤p¤rt¤ii<>¤· sand dollars; and the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized to apply twenty-five thousand dollars, of the money appropriated for mail transportation, for a line of mail steamers from the United States to Mau steamers Bremen; but no further sum shall be diverted to any other object  *· ‘° than the transportation of the mail within the United States. ` For compensation of postmasters, one million dollars. Pustmaswrs. For ship, steamboat, and way letters, twelve thousand dollars. Letters. For wrapping paper, sixteen thousand dollars. Paper, furni- For office furniture, (for post-offices,) four thousand dollars. gis ‘d'°&‘;’é¤ For advertising, thirty thousand dollars. 1mg3Eé, ' For mail bags, twenty thousand dollars. For blanks, seventeen thousand dollars. For mail locks, keys, and stamps, four thousand dollars. For mail depredations and special agents, thirteen thousand dol- Depredationssr lars. special agents. For clerks for offices, (for offices of postmasters,) two hundred Clerk;. thousand dollars. For miscellaneous, fifty thousand dollars. Mgxeumnm For defraying the expenses of the magnetic telegraph from the city Magnetic relaof Vv’ashingt0n to Baltimore, four thousand dollars; this appropriation €"‘l’b· to be available, if need be, before the commencement of the next fiscal year: Provided, That the Postmaster·General be, and he is hereby, authorized to let, for a limited time, the aforesaid telegraph to any Maybeleued person who will keep it in operation for its earnings; or he may, under the direction of the President of the United States, sell the same. For paying an ascertained balance due to Messrs. Hale and Cole- Balance due man, under their contract of May thirty-first, eighteen hundred and 21* md c°l°' thirty-seven, forty dollars and seventy-five cents. ` For publishing a new edition, of eighteen thousand copies, of the New edition ¤f Table of Post Offices in the United States, and the same number of the g'§i3;bl°a°;%P " Laws and Regulations for the Government of the Post-0Ece Depart· Law¤ahdReg¤1¤- ment," eight thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, the work be g°”;1_‘;Y ‘h°t ·O· let to contract to the lowest bidder, upon the terms indicated by the e80M:`;:,` how seventeenth section of the act approved twenty-sixtl1 August, eighteen made. hundred and forty-two, " legalizing and making appropriations for 1842, ch. 202, such necessary objects as have been usually included in the general in appropriation bills without authority of law, &.c." Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That in case the revenues of the Deficiency_ of department, referred to in the first section of this act, shall prove {€;Y°”“° P'°"d°d insufficient to meet the foregoing appropriations, then any deficiency ' that may thus arise shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, Armovmn, June 19, 1846.