FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Gus. 30, 40, 41. 1886. 9 _ CHAP. 30.—An act to enable the Public Printer to continue in effect the provis· Mar. 29, 1886. 4 ions of the joint resolution entitled "J0int resolution authorizing the Public Printer ———-— to remove certain material from the Government Printing 0H10B,, approved Febmary sixth, eighteen hundred aud eighty-three. Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That to enable the Public Government Printer to continue in effect the provisions of the joint resolution enti- Printing 0**6- tled "Joiut resolution authorizing the Public Printer to remove certain wg;;";;;} °f '"°` material from the Government Printing OiHce," approved February v01_ gg_ PQ 6;;; sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, the sum of fourteen thousand Appropriation. five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 29, 1886. CHAP. 40.—A11 act to authorize the publication of a new edition of the Postal Mar_30, 1335 Laws and Regulations. —-·;- Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for printing and publish- Laws and reguing a, new edition of the Laws and Regulations of the Post Office De- l¤tl°¤¤· P°¤t;°iH°° partmeut, consisting of seventy-five thousand copies, there is appropri- g§{;’;“‘°“t* D"' ated seventeen thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars; such ' edition to be prepared under the direction of the Postmaster General, and printed mn the Government Printing Oiilce. No extra compensa- No extra comtion shall be allowed to any officer or clerk of the Department for serv- P¤¤¤¤¢i<>¤· ices in preparing or superintending the publication of such edition. The Postmaster·General may authorize the sale of copies of such edi- Sale of copies tion, not needed for the use of the Department, to individuals, at the cost thereof, with ten per centum added; the proceeds of such sales to be deposited in the Treasury us part of the postal revenues. Approved, March 30, 1886. CHAP. 41.-Au act to amend section three hundred and fom- of the Revised May_31, 1886_ Statutes of the United States, authorizing the temporary appointment of xm Acting —·------- Assistant Treasurer. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stale.? of America in Congress assembled, That section three hundred and R. S., sec. 304, p. ibm- of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same is 51, ¤·¤¤¤¤<l¢d· hereby, amended so us to read as follows:
- ‘Sso. 304. The Treasurer may, in his discretion, and with the con- Assistant Treassent of the Secretary of the Treasury, authorize the Assistant Treasurer ¤w‘·
to act in the place and discharge any or all the duties of the Treasurer of the United States; and in the event of the absence or illnessof either Ama Assistant the Treasurer or the Assistant Treasurer, or botl1,_the Secretary of the Tmmrgr to Pu., Treasury may, on the recommendation of the Treasurer appoint for_a {om duties of term not exceeding thirty days at one time, from among the clerks m T¤=¤·¤¤r¢r- the Treasury, any one of said clerks to be Acting Assistant Treasurer during such absence or illness: Provided, however, That no such ap- Proviao. poiutment shall be made until the oilioial bond given by the principal of the office shall be made in terms to cover and apply to the acts and defaults of every such person so appointed from time to time. Such acting officer shall, moreover, for the time bemg, be subrieot to all the liabilities and penalties prescribed bylaw for the official m18COH- duct in like cases of the Assistant Treasurer, for whom he acts? Approved, March 31, 1886.
