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FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. C11. 234. 1884. 157 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 ior 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 Rnilwny posttwenty-llve thousand dollars. ¤¤i¤¤ ¤¤r ¤<>rvi<=¤- For necessary and special facilities on trunk lines, two hundred and Speciulfacilities fifty thousand dollars. For inland transportation by steamboat routes, six hundred and _ Steamboat servtwenty-five thousand dollars. *°°· For inland transportation by star routes, five million six hundred Stor-roms servthousand dollars : Provided, That the Postmaster-General may contract, l°°· , under a miscellaneous advertisement, for the performance of necessary P""""' postal service in Alaska for the iiscal year ending June thirtieth, eight- P°¤*¤·1 ¤°"i°° i¤ een hundred and eightyfive, without inviting proposals therefor by M"k“' 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·oiIice clerks, four million three hundred thousand Railway postdg||3rg_ omce clerks. lax-For maihmessengers, nine hundred and seventy-five thousand dol- M¤il-¤¤¤¤¤•=¤z¤r¤- s. For mail locks and keys, twenty-tive thousand dollars. . ken"] l°f’k' ""I For mail-bags and mail-bag catchers, two hundred and fifty thousand {Em mg, and d0ll3l‘S. mail-b catchers. For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars. Ni•<>:§¤¤¤¤¤¤- Orman or rmt Tman Assrsrnirr Posrmssrnn-Gnnnnan.-For Postage-stamps, manufacture of adhesive postagestamps and of newspaper and peri- °°°- odical stamps, one hundred and forty-six thousand dollars. For pay of agent and assistants to distribute stamps, and expenses of Stamp agency. the agency, eight thousand one hundred dollars. For manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers and Stamped envoletter-sheets, six hundred and forty-four thousand dollars. l°P¤¤·¤*¤· 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-hW0 thou· P¤¤t¤l ¤¤·¤i¤- sand dollars. For pay of agent and assistants to distribute postal cards, and expenses of agency, seven thousand three hundred dollars. For registered-package envelopes, locks and seals, and for oillce en- Registasroapaokvelopes, and for dead-letter envelopes, one hundred and forty thousand *8** °'“'°l"P°°· dollars. For ship, steamboat, and way letters, one thousand five hundred dol- Ship letters. lars. For engraving, printing, and binding drafts and warrants, two thou- Drafts and warsand five hundred dollars. "“*“· For miscellaneous items. one thousand dollars. itemliscellancons S. Ormcin or SUTERINTENDENT on FOREIGN MA¤.s.-For transports- Transportation tion of foreign mails, four hundred and twen ty-ive thousand dollars. °f f"'"'G·'“ ******1**- For balances due foreign countries, seventy-tive thousand dollars. in- Balanoosduotcrcluding the United States’ portion of the expenses of the International °*8° °°“¤*¤°°· Bureau of the Universal Postal Union Convention. To pay the expenses of delegates to the Universal Postal Union Gon· Ipolpgotos to gress to be held at Lisbon, Portugal, on the tirst of October, eighteen g¤‘Y°“***CP°°**l hundred and eighty-four, four thousand five hundred dollars, or so much Lf2f::. °;°§}°:,°Q thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the ,.,,..,8 LF Postmaster·General. Sec. 2. That if the revenues of the Post Omce Department shall be Doaoisn o y in insunicient to meet the appropriations made by this act, a sum equal to *°'°¤°°°-