OREGON. Bar at the mouth of the entrance to Nehalim Bay and River. PENNSYLVANIA. West Branch of the Susquehanna River, between Salt Lick an termilk Falls. Pawcatuck River. RHODE ISLAND. Warren River, with a view to the removal of obstructions from the channel. SOUTH CAROLINA. North Fork of the Edisto River, in the counties of Orangeburg and Lexington. Congaree River. Entrance to Winyaw Bay, near Georgetown. TENNESSEE. Elk River, Tennessee and Alabama. Holston River. Extension of the survey of Caney Fork River to Frank's Ferry. TEXAS. Cypress Bayou: The Secretary of War is hereby directed to cause a resurvey of the work of improvement of the navigation of Cypress Bayou and the lakes between Jefferson, in Texas, and Shreveport, in Louisana, in order to ascertain if the necessary improvement cannot be made upon some other plan than building a dam across the Albany Flats, as recommended by the engineer; and for this purpose he is hereby authorized and directed to expend so much of the unexpended balance of appropriations to the credit of said work as may be neces sary. Maquam Bay, Swanton. Cockpit Point, for ice-harbor. VERMONT. VIRGINIA. Colonial Beach, formerly White Point, in county of Westmoreland. Green Brier River. WEST VIRGINIA WISCONSIN. Ashland Harbor, in Ashland Bay, Lake Superior. IDAHO TERRITORY. Coeur d'Alene Lake and River. Saint Joseph's River. Snake River, between Lewiston and mouth of Boise River. WASHINGTON TERRITORY. Olympia Harbor. Puyallup River. Lewis River. Columbia River, above mouth of Snake River. For examinations, surveys, and contingencies, and for incidental repairs, for which there is no special appropriation, for rivers and harbors, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That no survey shall be made of any harbors or rivers until the Chief of Engineers shall have directed a preliminary examination of the same by the local engineer in charge of the district, or an engineer detailed for the purpose; and such local or detailed engineer shall report to said Chief of Engineers whether, in his opinion, said harbor or river is worthy of improvement, and shall state in such report fully and particularly the facts and reasons on which he bases such opinion, including the present and prospective demands of commerce. And it shall be the duty of the Chief of Engineers to direct the making of such survey if, in his opinion, the harbor or river proposed to be surveyed be worthy of improvement by the General Government; and he shall report to the Secretary of War the facts, and what public necessity or couvenience may be subserved thereby, together with the full reports of the local engineer. Said reports of preliminary examinations and surveys shall be made to the House of Representatives, and are hereby ordered to be printed when so made. SEC. 10 That all moneys hereby appropriated shall be immediately available. Approved, July 5, 1884. PUBLIC-No. 107.] AN ACT making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, out of any money in the Treasury arising from the revenues of said Department, in conformity to the act of July second, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, as follows: OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL.-For mail depredations and post-office inspectors, including amounts necessary for fees to United States marshals and attorneys, two hundred thousand dollars; and of this sum three thousand dollars shall be paid the chief post-office inspector; and post-office inspectors shall be allowed four dollars per day in lieu of the charges now permitted, for personal expenses; and not exceeding five thousand dollars of this amount may be expended for fees to United States attorneys, marshals, clerks of courts, and counsel necessarily employed by post-office inspectors of the Post-Office Department, subject to approval by the Attorney-General. For advertising, twenty thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items in the office of the Postmaster General, one thousand five hundred dollars. OFFICE OF THE FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL.-For compensation to postmasters, eleven million dollars. For compensation to clerks in post-offices, four million nine hundred thousand dollars. For payment to letter-carriers and the incidental expenses of the free delivery-system four million dollars; forty-five thousand dollars of which may be used, in the discretion of the Postmaster-General, for the establishment, under existing law, of the free-delivery system in cities where it is not now established. For wrapping-paper, thirty thousand dollars. For wrapping-twine, seventy thousand dollars. For post-marking, canceling, and rating stamps, twenty-five thousand dollars. For letter-balances, test-weights, and scales, twenty-five thousand dollars. For rent, light, and fuel, four hundred and eighty thousand dollars. And the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized to rent a suitable building on Capitol Hill for use as a branch of the Washington City post-office, at a rate not exceeding thirty dollars per month. For safes and other office furniture, forty thousand dollars. For miscellaneous and incidental expenses of post-offices, including repairs, gas-fixtures, and telegrams, eighty thousand dollars; and the Postmaster-General is authorized to designate postmasters at money order post-offices as disbursing officers for the payment of the salaries of officers and employees of the postal service, and for such other payments as postmasters are now authorized to make from postal revenues. OFFICE OF THE SECOND ASSISTANT POSTMASTER-GENERAL.-For inland mail transportation, namely: For transportation on railroad routes, twelve million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and if any railroad company shall fail or refuse to transport the mails, when required by the Post Office Department, upon the fastest train or trains run upon said road, said company shall have its pay reduced fifty per centum of the amount provided by law. The Postmaster-General is authorized to pay, out of appropriations for transportation on railroad routes, for special railroad service between the union depot in East Saint Louis, Illinois, and the union depot in Saint Louis, Missouri, a sum not exceeding the lowest rate which private individuals, express companies, or others may pay for transportation between said points, but not to exceed for any fiscal year twenty-five thousand dollars, including allowance for depot room and transfer service at each terminal. For railway post-office car service, one million six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For necessary and special facilities on trunk lines, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For inland transportation by steamboat routes, six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For inland transportation by star routes, five million six hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That the Postmaster-General may contract, under a miscellaneous advertisement, for the performance of necessary postal service in Alaska for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, without inviting proposals therefor by publication in a newspaper, as required by the act of May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, no newspaper being published in that Territory. For railway post-office clerks, four million three hundred thousand dollars. For mail-messengers, nine hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For mail locks and keys, twenty-five thousand dollars. For mail-bags and mail-bag catchers, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars. OFFICE OF THE THIRD ASSISTANT POSTMASTER-GENERAL.—For manufacture of adhesive postage-stamps and of newspaper and periodical stamps, one hundred and forty-six thousand dollars. For pay of agent and assistants to distribute stamps, and expenses of the agency, eight thousand one hundred dollars. For manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers and letter-sheets, six hundred and forty-four thousand dollars. For pay of agent and assistants to distribute stamped envelopes, newspaper-wrappers, and letter-sheets, and expenses of agency, sixteen thousand dollars. For manufacture of postal cards, two hundred and thirty-two thousand dollars. For pay of agent and assistants to distribute posta_ cards, and expenses of agency, seven thousand three hundred dollars. For registered-package envelopes, locks and seals, and for office envelopes, and for dead-letter envelopes, one hundred and forty thousand dollars. For ship, steamboat, and way letters, one thousand five hundred dol lars. For engraving, printing, and binding drafts and warrants, two thousand five hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars. OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF FOREIGN MAILS.-For transportation of foreign mails, four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For balances due foreign countries, seventy-five thousand dollars, including the United States' portion of the expenses of the International Bureau of the Universal Postal Union Convention. To pay the expenses of delegates to the Universal Postal Union Congress to be held at Lisbon, Portugal, on the first of October, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, four thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Postmaster-General. SEC. 2. That if the revenues of the Post-Office Department shall be insufficient 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 money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply the said deficiencies in the revenue of the Post Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five. SEC. 3. That section twenty-nine of the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine (United States Statutes at Large, page three hundred and sixty-two), be, and it is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: "The provisions of the fifth and sixth section of the act entitled 'An act establishing post-routes, and for other purposes' approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, for the transmission of official mail-matter, be, and they are hereby, extended to all officers of the United States Government, not including members of Congress, the envelopes of such matter in all cases to bear appropriate indorsements containing the proper designation of the office from which or officer from whom the same is transmitted, with a statement of the penalty for their misuse. And the provisions of said fifth and sixth sections are hereby likewise extended and made applicable to all official mailmatter of the Smithsonian Institution: Provided, That any Department or officer authorized to use the penalty envelopes may inclose them with return address to any person or persons from or through whom official information is desired, the same to be used only to cover such official information, and indorsements relating thereto: Provided further, That any letter or packet to be registered by either of the Executive Departments, or Bureaus thereof, or by the Agricultural Department, or by the Public Printer, may be registered without the payment of any registry fee; and any part-paid letter or packet addressed to either of said Departments or Bureaus may be delivered free; but where there is good reason to believe the omission to prepay the full postage thereon was intentional, such letter or packet shall be returned to the sender: Provided further, That this act shall not extend or apply to pension agents or other officers who receive a fixed allowance as compensation for their services, including expenses of postages. And section thirtynine hundred and fifteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States, so far as the same relates to stamps and stamped envelopes for official purposes, is hereby repealed." Approved, July 5th, 1884. 1612 LA- -7 |