170 THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. H. Ch. 57, 58. 1861. master General shall have the same authority over this route as over all others; and after said daily overland mail has gone mto operation, the N,,w,p,W·pw. postage between any State or Territory east of the Rocky Mountains, aps bctwm ¤¤¤¢ and any State or Temtory on the Pacific, on each newspaper, periodical, ‘,;,,g“;Q¥:;£ unsealed circular, or other article of printed matter, not exceeding three &o. ’ ounces in weight, shall he one cent, and for every additional ounce, or fraction of an ourge, one mnt additi§,na::h t th t f th _ tservi Sec. 17. And it r enactc a e cos o e service on h°md· co, the routes named in tliiii act shall be paid, after annual appropriation, by the Secretary of the Treasury, upon the certificate of the Postmaster Lttm P<>¤*¤G¤ General. And that the rate of letter postage between any State or Ter- 1]§,°;',,°$"}0$,:,$E,,Y,£riwry east of the Rocky Mountains, and any State or Territory on the and die Pacific. Pacific coast, shallbpe ten cglnts per hallf ’<Hnce.h P t t G ml _ Sec. 18. And it rt er made at the os mas er ene is Steamers be. authorized to provide téumporary steamship service by the. nearest and Wm NW Y°* most expeditious route between New York and San Francisco, at a cost ';Qg_,F’°° Fr"` not exceeding three hundred and Efty thousand dollars a year, reserving to the Government the privilege of annulling the contract, after the commencement of the overland service, upon sixty days’ notice. Service on up Sec. Iti. And be it judher enacted, That the cost ofdth; service autm Num, how thorized in the. three preceding sectionslof this act, an. t at now perto be paid. forming on_the inland routes numbered eight thousand nine hundred and eleven, twelve thousand eight hundred and one, twelve thousand five hundred and seventy-eight, and eight thousand and seventy-six, shall be paid, after annual appropriation, by the Secretary of the Treasury, upon the certificate of service from the Postmaster General, except so far as appropriations may already have been made for such service. APPROVED, February 27, 1861. , r. LVI I. —-An ct makin otions or the Consular and Di lnmalic Ex-
Clpgnses of the Govermiient for the the `diirticth of June, eiqhtecnliumdred and
¢a.z·ty-two. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembkd, That the following sums be, Consular and and the same are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury dlP*°E¤*;F° *P‘ not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereafter expressed, for the www °°' fiscallyear ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, name y: g;,,,,,,,.,, m;,,;,. For salaries of envoys extraordinary, ministers, and commissioners of t9r¤,¤¤d¤¤¤mi=· the United States at Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Aus- "°"°"‘ tria, Brazil, Mexico, China, Chili, Peru, Portugal, Switzerland, Rome, Sardinia, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Turkey, New Granada, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Sandwich Islands, Costa Rica, Honduras, Argentine Confederation, Paraguay, and Japan, three hundred and one thousand dollars. lasasgxxfaégs or dngor ?l;t£{es(;>t;lsecretaries of legation, forty-three thousand three hun- 1 * 8.11 y 0 BTS. For salaries of assistant secretaries of legation at London and Paris, three thousand dollars. d {For salary of the interpreter to the legation to China, five thousand o BIS. For salary of the secretary of legation to Turkey, acting as interpreter, three thousand dollars. Iéo; compegsagop po the interpreter to. the mission to Japan, two thousan ve un re 0 lars. pgp3d:?::; d015p; contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, forty thousand mmm For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, forty thousand d01larS·
