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442 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 446. 1898. ¤¤¤¤¤li¤H· M-- For postmarking and rating stamps, and repairs to same, and ink mm"` and pads for stamping and canceling purposes, twenty-seven thousand dollars. Packing 1»¤x¤¤.¤t¤- For packing boxes, sawdust, paste, and hardware, one thousand dollars. Pri¤¤¤z- For printing facing slips and cutting same, card slide labels, blanks, and books of an urgent nature for the postal service, twenty thousand dollars. ‘ cm¤¤li¤g¤¤•=¤i¤¤s- For rental or purchase of canceling machines, one hundred thousand dollars. noekmw. Blanks, blank books, and printed matter for the money-order service, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. 1:..;1...-.¤..¤..s, Stamps and articles pertaining thereto, and metal cutters, for the °*°· money-order service, two thousand five hundred dollars. -m..y. Stationery and necessary miscellaneous and incidental expenses for the money—order service, seven thousand dollars. ' Temwmrr r¤¤*- For the establishment and maintenance during the existing war, in °°°’“ “° °°`"’°` the discretion of the Postmaster-General, of temporary post-offices at military posts or camps for the purpo e of supplying the officers and troops there encamped with mails, the location of any such post-office to be changed to any other post or camp, in the discretion of the Post- . master-General, nity thousand dollars. P,§s;;>_·;¤t<;r_,*§:;;j?,jj¥* 0F1v10E OF THE SECOND ASSISTANT POSTMASTER-GQNERAL. 1..1.1 mail u.. For inland mail transportation, namely: Inland transportation by P°§;§gfm _ star routes, including temporary service to newly established offices, five million and ninety-tive thousand dollars. smmmm routes For inland transportation by steamboat routes, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. ' ¤·¤¤¤¤z¤r ¤¤¤‘i¤¤- For maildnessenger service, nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars. P¤¤¤¤¤»¤i¤ tub". For transportation of mail by pneumatic tube or other similar °*°‘ devices, by purchase or otherwise, two hundred and twenty-five thou- 1>..».;a..»._ sand dollars: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used L“'“““°“‘ in extending such pneumatic service beyond the service for which cor.- tracts already are entered into, and no additional contracts shall be made unless hereafter authorized by law. Wagor1.etc..sen·i¤·. FOI 1`CgH.]Htl0I]., BCPBGD, 0I.` OMICP W3»g0D S€I‘VlC€, SBVGII hlIDdI`€d. Bild fifty thousand dollars. n.,.·~1.».-.,·. For mail bags and mail·bag catchers, cord fasteners, label cases, and for labor and material necessary tbr repairing equipment, two hundred and seventy-tive thousand dollars. r·1..,r.»y...-. For mail locks and keys, chains, tools, and machinery, and tbr labor and material necessary for repairing same, tbrty-eig ht thousand dollars. n»i. ..1..., For rent of building for a. mail-bag repair shop and lock-repair shop, and for fuel, gas, watchmen and charwoman, oil, and repair of machinery for said shops, eight thousand five hundred dollars. R=¤ilr<v=ul muws. For inland transportation by railroad routes, of which a sum not exceeding thirty thousand dollars may be employed to pay ireight on postal cards, stumped envelopes, and stamped paper, and other supplies from the manufactories to the postoflices and depots of distribuz;.-...:.". _ tion, thirty million five hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That any Ufjjl};§;}'$]}‘,§]Q{§;Q"°° person or persons who shall place or cause to be placed any matter in the mails during the regular weighing period, for the purpose of increasing the weight of the mails with intent to cause an increase in the compensation of the railroad mail carrier over whose route such mail matter may pass, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, on conviction thereof, be fined not less than five hundred dollars nor more than twenty thousand dollars, and shall be imprisoned at hard labor not less than thirty days nor more than five years. P<>st~¤¤ir*<· rare For railway postoffice car service, four million dollars. xa.1w..ymmn—:~rk¤. For railway post-office clerks, eight million four hundred and twenty- tive thousand dollars, of which sum not to exceed fifteen thousand dol-