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TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess.II. Ch.35. 1841.
Relief, &c. ofAm. seamen.
Expenses ofconsulate atLondon .
1836, ch. 2.
Barbary pow-ers.
Foreign inter-course.
Library ofCongress.
Purchase ofbooks.
Enforcementof the neutralitylaws.
Service of theGeneral PostOffice.
1836. ch. 270.
Transporta-
tion.
Compensationof postmasters.
Proviso, requi-ring them tomalte returns ofall emolumentsreceived fromboxes, &c.
Act of March3, 1845, ch. 43.
No postmasterto receive morethan $5000 ayear, salary in-cluded.
For salary of the minister resident of the United Slates to Turkey ,six thousand dollars;
For salaries of the charges des affaires to Portugal, Spain, Denmark ,Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Brazil, Chili, Peru, New Grenada, Vene-zuela, Texas, Naples, and Sardinia , sixty-three thousand dollars;
For salary of a drogoman to the legation to Turkey , two thousandfive hundred dollars;
For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, thirty thousanddollars;
For outfits of ministers to Austria and Great Britain , and of chargesdes affaires to Venezuela , twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars;
For salaries of the consuls of the United States at London and Paris ,four thousand dollars;
For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign coun-tries, fifty thousand dollars;
For clerk hire, office-rent, stationery, and other expenses in the officeof the American consul at London , per act of January nineteenth, eigh-teen hundred and thirty-six, two thousand eight hundred dollars;
For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers, seventeenthousand four hundred dollars;
For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thousanddollars;
For salary of the principal and two assistant librarians, pay of themessenger, and for contingent expenses of the library, three thousandnine hundred and fifty dollars;
For the purchase of books for the library in Congress, five thousanddollars;
For the payment of arrearages incurred in enforcing the neutralitylaws on the northern and northwestern frontier, five thousand dol-lars ;
For the service of the General Post Office for the year eighteen hun-dred and forty-one, in conformity to the act of second July, eighteenhundred and thirty-six;
For transportation of the mail, three million two hundred and eightythousand dollars;
For compensation of postmasters, one million and fifty thousand dol-lars : Provided however, That in addition to returns now required to berendered by postmasters, it shall be the duty of the postmasters at NewYork, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New Orleans , and the otherseveral cities of the Union, each and every year hereafter, to render a quar-ter-yearly account to the Postmaster General, under oath, in such formas the latter shall prescribe, for the purpose of giving full effect to thisproviso, of all emoluments or sums by them respectively received forboxes or pigeon-holes, or other receptacles for letters or papers, and bythem charged for to individuals; or for the delivery of letters or papersat or from any place in either of said cities, other than the actual postoffice of such city, and of all emoluments, receipts, and profits thathave come to their hands by reason of keeping branch post offices ineither of said cities; and if, from such accounting, it shall appear thatthe net amount received by either of the postmasters at either of suchcities for such boxes and pigeon-holes, and other receptacles for lettersand papers, and for delivering letters or papers at or from any place ineither of said cities other than said post office, and by reason of keep-ing a branch post office in either of said cities, shall, in the aggregate,exceed the sum of three thousand dollars in any one year, such excessshall be paid to the Postmaster General for the use and purposes of thePost Office Department; and no postmaster shall hereafter, under anypretence whatsoever, have, or receive, or retain for himself, in the ag-gregate, more than five thousand dollars per year, including salary, com-