Leeds; Southampton; Dundee; Leith; Cork; Dublin; Toronto; Hamilton: Coaticook; Halifax; Saint John's, (New Brunswick :) Kingston, (Jamaica ;) Nassau, (New Providence ;) Turk's Islands; Cardiff; Port Louis, (Mauritius.) Sonneberg; Nuremberg; Barmen; Chemnitz; Leipsic; Aix-la-Chapelle. Bristol; New Castle; Aukland; Gibraltar; Malta; Cape Town; Saint Helena; Goderich, (Canada West;) Kingston, (Canada;) Prescott; Port Sarnia; Windsor, (Canada West;) Que Carried forward $824, 700 00 824, 700 00 Appropriations, fc.-Continued. Object of appropriation. Amount. Brought forward bec; Saint John's, (Canada East ;) Pictou; Charlottetown, (Prince Edward Island ;) Winni peg; Barbadoes; Bermuda; Port Stanley; Mahe, (Seychelles ;) Fort Erie; Clifton. $824,700 00 For the consuls-general at London, Paris, Havana, and Rio Janeiro, each $6,000 per annum.. For the consuls-general at Kanagawa, Montreal, and Berlin, each $4,000 per annum.. annum For the consuls-general at Saint Petersburg and Mexico, each $2,000 per annum.. For allowance for clerks at consulates as follows: To the consul-general at Havana and the consul at Liverpool, each a sum not exceeding the rate of $3,000 for any one year; and to the consuls-general at London, Paris, and Shanghai, each a sum not exceeding the rate of $2,000 for any one year; to the consuls-general at Berlin, Vienna, Frankfort, and Montreal, and to the consuls at Hamburg, Bremen, Leipsic, Lyons, Manchester, Beirut, Belfast, Birmingham, Bradford, Chemnitz, Sheffield, Sonne berg, Dresden, Havre, Marseilles, Fayal, Nuremberg, Leith, Naples, Stuttgart, Mannheim, and Tunstall, each a sum not 'exceeding $1,500 for any one year.... For interpreters to the consulates at Shanghai, Tien-Tsin, Fow chow, and Kanagawa, at $2,000 each For interpreters to the consulates at Hankow, Amoy, Canton, and Hong-Hong, at $750 each. Carried forward 4,000 00 24, 000 00 10, 000 00 4,500 00 12, 000 00 12,000 00 4,000 00 6, 000 00 51,000 00 8,000 00 3, 000 00 963, 200 00 Appropriations, &c.-Continued. Object of appropriation. Amount. Brought forward..... For interpreters to twelve other consulates in China. Japan, and Siam, at $500 each.. For payment of consular officers not citizens of the United States.. For interpreters, guards, and other expenses at the consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, $963, 200 00 6, 000 00 7,700 00 10,000 00 3,000 00 48,000 00 For contingent expenses of the United States consulates, such as stationery, book-cases, arms of the United States, seals, presses, and flags, rent, freight, postage, and other necessary miscellaneous matters, including loss by exchange.. 131,850 00 15, 000 00 For salaries and expenses of the United States and Spanish Claims Commission, namely: For commissioner, $5,000; for counsel, $5,000; for secretary, $912.50; for messenger, $300; and for rent, fuel, and gas, $3,787.50; making, in all, the sum of.. For salaries and expenses of United States and Mexican Claims Commission: For commissioner, $4,500; for agent, $4,000; for secretary, $2,500; for umpire, $3,000; legal assistant to agent, $3,000; two translators, at $1.500 each; two clerks, at $1,400 each; one messenger, $600; one assistant messenger, $300; and for contingent expenses, $5,000; making, in all, the sum of 28,700 00 4,000 00 1,500 00 For rent of prisons for American convicts in Siam and Turkey, and for wages of keepers of the same, including loss by exchange For rent of prison for American convicts in China..... .... 10, 000 00 750 00 5,000 00 5,000 00 100,000 00 For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries For expenses of acknowledging the services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American citizens from shipwreck To meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the neutrality act, to be ex- For annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel light, on the coast of Morocco.. For rent of court-house and jail, with grounds appurtenant, in Yeddo, or such other place as By the act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876, and for other purposes, OFFICE OF THE FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER-GENERAL. For pay of postmasters, $7,000,000; and the salary of the postmaster of the city of New York is hereby fixed at $8,000 per annum.... For pay of clerks for post-offices. For pay of letter-carriers and incidental expenses of the free-delivery system. For inland-mail transportation, $17,548,000; and out of the appropriation for inland-mail For pay of route-agents For pay of mail-route messengers.. For pay of local agents.... For pay of mail-messengers.. For mail locks and keys. For mail-bags and mail-bag catchers Carried forward Appropriations, Sc.-Continued. Object of appropriation. Amount. Brought forward.. For preparing and publishing post-route maps, $30,000; and out of this appropriation the Postinaster-General is hereby authorized to pay all the expenses of employing clerks, lithographers, experts, and other persons whose services may be necessary in the preparation and publication of said maps..... For payments on account of mail-depredations and for special agents of the Post-Office Department. $34, 389, 541 00 30,000 00 160, 000 00 OFFICE OF THE THIRD ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL. For the manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, including official stamps... For pay of agent and assistants to distribute postage-stamps For stamped envelopes and newspaper-wrappers........ For pay of distributing-agent and assistants.. For manufacture of postal cards For pay of agent and assistants to distribute postal cards.. For registered-package envelopes, locks, and seals For official envelopes for postmasters For fees to United States attorneys, marshals, clerks of courts, and counsel necessarily em. For advertising Provided, That hereafter the mail-lettings for the States of Maryland and Virginia and for the District of Columbia shall be advertised in not more than one newspaper published in the District of Columbia, and at prices satisfactory to the Postmaster-General, not exceeding the customary rates paid in the city of Washington for ordinary commercial advertisements; and so much of section 3826 of the Revised Statutes of the United States as refers to the publication of advertisements in newspapers be, and the same is hereby, repealed. The Postmaster-General shall cause an advertisement of the mail-lettings of each State and Territory to be posted up in each post-office therein, to be posted conspicuously for at least sixty days before the time of such letting. For miscellaneous items.. OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF FOREIGN MAILS. For foreign-mail transportation.... For balances due foreign countries, including unsettled balances due France, for the fourth That so much of an act entitled "An act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June 30, 1873, approved June 1, 1872, as relates to and authorizes a contract to be made by the Postmaster-General with the Pacific Mail Steamship Company for steamship-service between San Francisco, Japan, and China, is hereby repealed, and any such contract made by the Postmaster-General in pursuance of said act is hereby annulled. For steamship-service between the United States and Brazil... For official postage-stamps for the Post-Office Department.. SEC. 3. That if the revenues of the Post-Office Department shall be insufficient to meet the appropriations made by this act, then the sum of $6,852,705, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the revenue of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June 30, 1876. That the provisions of section 13 of the act of June 23, 1874, entitled "An act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875, and for other purposes," shall apply to ex-members of Congress and ex-delegates for the period of nine months after the expiration of their terms as members and delegates, and postage on public documents mailed by such persons shall be as provided in said section. SEC. 4. That hereafter the Sixth Auditor shall keep the accounts in his office so as to show the expenditures of the Post-Office Department under each item of appropriation provided by law. SEC. 5. That from and after the passage of this act, the Congressional Record, or any part thereof, or speeches or reports therein contained, shall, under the frank of a member of Congress or delegate, to be written by himself, be carried in the mail free of postage, under such regulations as the Postmaster-General may prescribe; and that public documents already printed, or ordered to be printed, for the use of either House of Congress may pass free through the mails upon the frank of any member or delegate of the present Congress, written by himself, until the 1st day of December, anno Domini 1875. SEC. 6. That the Postmaster-General shall cause a full inquiry and investigation to be made into all branches of the expenditure of the Post-Office Department, with a view to reduce such expenditures as nearly as practicable to the postal receipts; and with that Carried forward 300, 000 00 80,000 00 500, OCO 00 37,500 00 986, 000 00 37,524, 361 00 |