Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the service of the Post-Office Department, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, out of any moneys in the treasury arising from the revenues of the said department, in conformity to the act of the second of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, namely:

For the transportation of the mails within the United States, two million four hundred and ninety-five thousand seven hundred dollars;

For the transportation of the mails between Charleston, South Carolina, and Havana, by way of Key West, calling at Savannah, under the contract made with M. C. Mordecai, fifty thousand dollars. And for transportation of the mail by said line, or by other steamers, to such other places on the coast of Florida as the Postmaster-General may deem practicable and expedient, five thousand dollars;

For transportation by steamships between New York and Bremen, according to the contract with Edward Mills, authorized by the "Act to provide for the transportation of the mail between the United States and foreign countries," approved March third, eighteen hundred and forty-five, four hundred thousand dollars;

For compensation to postmasters, one million seventy-five thousand dollars;

For ship, steamboat, and way letters, twenty-five thousand dollars;

For wrapping paper, eighteen thousand dollars;

For office furniture, (in the offices of postmasters,) three thousand dollars;

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For advertising, thirty-five thousand dollars;

For mail bags, twenty-five thousand dollars;

For blanks, eighteen thousand dollars;

For mail locks, keys, and stamps, five thousand dollars;

For the detection and prevention of mail depredations, and for special agents, twelve thousand dollars;

For clerks for offices, (in the offices of postmasters,) two hundred and thirty thousand dollars;

For miscellaneous, fifty-five thousand dollars.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That in case the revenues of the department, referred to in the first section of this act, shall prove insufficient to meet the foregoing appropriations, then any deficiency that may thus arise shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, July 10, 1848.