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1080 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 547. 1891. Bmallomcen. sand dollars may be expended for experimental " free delivery " at small offices not having the requirements of population or revenue under existing law. S¤¤¤<>¤¤w- For stationery in post offices, fifty-seven thousand dollars. rwme. For wrapping twine, eighty-five thousand dollars. raper. For wrappin paper, sixty thousand dollars. _ scams. For letter balances, scales, and test weights, and repairs to same, eighteen thousand dollars. _ _ ng¤¤<=¤¤¤z» etc-· For post-marking and rating stamps, and repairs to same, and mk m"' and pads for stamping and canceling purposes, and mcluding forty thousand dollars for the rental of one hundred improved cancelmg machines, eighty thousand dollars. _ Pwkins b¤=¤¤.·¤¢<=· d pfor packing-boxes, saw dust, paste, and hardware,_ two thousand o lars. P¤’i¤**¤K· For printing facing slips, card slide labels, blanks, and books of an urgent nature for post offices of the first and second classes, eight thousand dollars.

o$A-gn? oF1v*1c1¢.: OF THE SECOND ASSISTANT POSTMASTER-GENERAL.

“,{,'f"“ “‘“"·'¥’°’*“‘ For inland mail transportation, namely, inland transportation by smmuus star routes, five million eight hundred an ninety-two thousand seven hundred and thirty dollars and fifty-one cents. sumbmmum. For inland transportation by steamboat routes, five hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. · ¥¤¤¤¤•s¤¤·¤¤¤i¤¤· d pier mail-messenger service, one million two hundred thousand · dollars. ’*¤"¤‘*°°‘°h°"· For mail bags and mail-bag catchers, cord fasteners, label casers, and for labor and material necessary for repairing equipment, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Locks. km. M For mail locks and keys, chains, tools and machinery and for lialipr and material necessary for repairing same, forty-five thousand o ars. R“P““` S"°¥’· For the purpose of enabling the Postmaster-General to rent a building for mail·bag repair shop and lock repair shop, and for fuel, gas, watchhien, and charwomen, oil and repair of machinery for ` same, six thousand five hundred dollars. mmm ¤>¤¤*¤· For inland transportation by railroad routes, of which a sum not F¤>is¤¢- exceeding thirty thousand do lars may be employed to pay freight on posta cards, stamped envelopes, and stamped paper rom the manufactories to the postoffices and depots of istri ution, twenty- two million five hundred and fifty thousand one hundred and twenty- eiggit dollars and thirty-one cents. P°’*“ °°"°· or railway post office car service, two million seven hundred and m thirty-one thousand dollars. . ""“"°°'°'”‘ For railway (post office clerks, six million three hundred and fifty- three thousan dollars, of which not to exceed twenty thousand T"'°“”8 °"°'“°‘· dollars may be used to pay necessary traveling expenses for chief clerks and railway posta clerks traveling on duty under order of _ the Postmaster-General. ”’°“"·““°“"’*°** For necessary and special facilities on trunk lines, two hundred and ninety-five thousand four hundred and twenty-one dollars and

  • "’°°"°- Seventy-nine cents: Provided, That the Postmaster-General may, in

w*'****¤"•'· his discretion, withdraw this fund, or any rtion thereof, from any rtailroad company when, in his judgment, the) public interests require 1 ""°°"‘“°°‘“ For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars. mT1§Z$~e··¤emlP°s° OFFICE OF THE THIRD Assrstmxr POSTMASTER-GELIRAL. Stamps For manufacture of adhesive ostage ands ial—delive stam two hundred and three thousand) dollars. PBC ry ps,