United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/15th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 52
Chap. LII.—An Act authorizing the Postmaster General to contract, as in other cases, for carrying the mail in steamboats, between New Orleans, in the state of Louisiana, and Louisville, in the state of Kentucky.
The Postmaster general authorized to contract for carrying the mail in steamboats, from New Orleans to Louisville, &c.
Expense not to exceed that of transmitting by land.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster General may, and he is hereby, authorized to contract for the transportation of the mail in steamboats, between New Orleans, in the state of Louisiana, and Louisville, in the state of Kentucky, for any term of time, not exceeding four years in any one contract, in the same way and manner as he lawfully may, for the carriage of it, by land; but the whole expense of sending the mail in steamboats shall not exceed that of transmitting the same by land.
Approved, March 2, 1819.