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TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch.82. 1839.
New cupolas.
Repairing wa-ter pipes.
C. Gordon.
President’s
house.
Purchase offire engines,&c.
General PostOffice. Act ofJuly 2, 1836,ch. 270.
Transportationof the mails.
Compensationof postmasters.
Ship letters,
&.C.
Wrapping pa-per.
Office furni-ture.
Advertising.
Mail bags.
Blanks.
Mail locks,&c.
Mail depreda-tions, dec.
Clerks.
Miscellaneous.
Money paid tocollectors, dec.for unascertain-ed duties, dec.
worked up, allowance to discharged convicts and other contingenciesas per estimate of board of inspectors, twelve thousand five hundred andthirty-seven dollars and thirty-six cents;
[For] the survey of the southern boundary of the Territory of Iowa,nine hundred and sixty-nine dollars and five cents;
For the surveys of public lands north of the Wisconsin and Neenah rivers in Wisconsin , the sum of five thousand dollars;
For three new cupolas over the Library of Congress, one thousandfour hundred and eighty-two dollars and twenty-four cents;
For branch-pipes and stop-cocks to water the Capitol grounds, threehundred and fifty dollars and thirty cents ;
For repairing the water-pipes from the Tiber, north of the Capitol , tothe Capitol , five hundred dollars;
For compensating Charles Gordon for services rendered under theresolutions of the Senate of the second of July, eighteen hundred andthirty-six, and the twenty-eighth of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, one thousand eight hundred dollars;
For completing the special repairs heretofore proposed in the Presi-dent’s house, including a deficiency in a former appropriation, one thou-sand five hundred and eleven dollars and twenty-two cents;
F'or the purchase of two fire engines for the Capitol , the Marine Bar-racks, and the Navy Yard, including apparatus and for suction andhose for the Perseverance fire company, ten thousand one hundred dol-lars ;
For the service of the General Post Office, for the year eighteen hun-dred and thirty-nine, in conformity to the act of second July, eighteenhundred and thirty-six, five million one hundred thousand dollars;
For the transportation of the mails, three million five hundred andtwenty-nine thousand dollars;
For compensation of postmasters, one million and ninety-one thou-sand dollars;
For ship, steamboat, and way letters, thirty-five thousand dollars;
For wrapping-paper, twenty-five thousand dollars;
For office furniture, six thousand dollars;
F'or advertising, thirty-eight thousand dollars;
For mail-bags, forty-eight thousand dollars;
F'or blanks, thirty-four thousand dollars;
F'or mail-locks, and keys, and stamps, twelve thousand dollars;
For mail depredations and special agents, fifteen thousand dollars;
For clerks for offices, two hundred thousand dollars;
For miscellaneous, sixty-seven thousand dollars; Provided, That thePresident and the Postmaster General shall have the same power totransfer funds from one to another head of appropriation, between theforegoing appropriations made for the service of the General Post Office,as the President and any other head of an Executive department nowhave to transfer funds appropriated under one head to the service ofanother, in any other branch of the public service.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passageof this act, all money paid to any collector of the customs, or to anyperson acting as such, for unascertained duties or for duties paid underprotest against the rate or amount of duties charged, shall be placed tothe credit of the Treasurer of the United States , kept and disposed ofas all other money paid for duties is required by law, or by regulationof the Treasury Department , to be placed to the credit of said Trea-surer, kept and disposed of; and shall not be held by the said collector,or person acting as such, to await any ascertainment of duties, or theresult of any litigation in relation to the rate or amount of duty legallychargeable and collectable in any case where money is so paid; butwhenever it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the