Post-Office Department.
POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
Emma S. Spates.
Salary.
To pay Emma S. Spates the balance of salary due her as a clerk at nine hundred dollars per annum for services rendered in the office of the First Assistant Postmaster-General, rural free-delivery service, from October first to twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, inclusive, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, twenty-one dollars and twenty-five cents.
J. T. Suter, jr.
Rent.
For rent of office room numbered fifty-one in the Home Life Building in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, from J. T. Suter, junior, for two months from September eighth, nineteen hundred and three, including janitor service, eighty-two dollars.
Contingent expenses. For telegraphing, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, three hundred and forty-eight dollars and seventy cents.
For purchase, exchange, and keeping of horses, and repair of wagons and harness, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and twenty dollars and forty-seven cents.
For purchase and erection of revolving doors for the two center entrances of the Washington city post-office building, one thousand three hundred dollars.
Postage. Postage, Post-Office Department: Postage stamps for correspondence addressed abroad which is not exempt from postage under article eight of the Paris convention of the Universal Postal Union, one hundred and fifty dollars.
Postal service.
out of the postal revenues.
Transportation.
Star routes.
Mail transportation: By star routes, on account of the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, three hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty-four cents.
Steamboat routes. By steamboat routes, fifteen thousand dollars.
Railroads. By railroad routes, of which a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars may be employed to pay freight on postal cards, stamped envelopes, and stamped paper, mail equipment, and other supplies from the manufactories to the post-offices and depots of distribution, four hundred thousand dollars.
Wagon service. For regulation, screen, and other wagon service, one hundred thousand dollars.
Mail bags, etc. Mail bags: For mail bags, cord fasteners, label cases, and for labor and material necessary for repairing equipment, thirty-six thousand dollars.
Repair shop. For fuel for mail-bag repair shop and lock-repair shop, six hundred dollars.
Railway Mail Service.
Acting clerks. etc.
Railway Mail Service: Acting clerks in place of clerks injured while on duty, and to enable the Postmaster-General to pay the sum of one thousand dollars to the legal representatives of any railway postal clerk who shall be killed while on duty, or who, being injured while on duty, shall die within one year thereafter as the result of such injury, twenty thousand dollars.
Stamped envelopes. Stamped envelopes: For manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers, fourteen thousand dollars.
Official envelopes. For registered package, tag, official, and dead-letter envelopes, seven thousand dollars.
Stamps. For manufacture of adhesive postage and special-delivery stamps and books of stamps, fifteen thousand dollars.
Rural free delivery.
Maps.
