Resolved: That the committee on Post offices and Post Roads be instructed to enquire
into the expedency and propriety of providing by law
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Resolved,
That it shall be the duty of the Postmaster General to arrange and class the service
hereafter to be required of the railroad companies, including those in which the service
is partly by steamboats, in the transportation of the United States mails, into four
classes, according to the size of the mails, the speed and frequency with which the
mails are or shall be required to be conveyed, and the importance of the service;
and it shall be lawful for him to contract for carrying the mail with any such railroad
company, or any steamboat company, or any railroad and steamboat company, either with
or without advertising for such contracts: Provided, That for the first-class service in conveying the mail on any railroad, he shall
not pay a higher rate of compensation than $200 per mile per annum; nor for 2d class
service on any railroad, a greater compensation than $150 per mile per annum; nor
for 3d -class service on any railroad, a greater compensation than $100 per mile per
annum; nor for th 4th-class service on any railroad a greater compensation than $50
per mile per annum; nor for carrying the mail on steamboats or on the steamboat portion
of a railroad and steamboat route, a greater compensation than above specified for
the several classes, less 121/2 per cent
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and that they report by fr [bail?] or otherwise
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Resolution of enquiry
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Jones of Tennessee
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Mr. G. M. Jones.
on the expediency of passing a law for the regulating the terms of carrying the mails by Rail Roads and Steamboats.
on the expediency of passing a law for the regulating the terms of carrying the mails by Rail Roads and Steamboats.
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Jany 17th '48
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agreed to.
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By Geo. W. Jones of Tennessee
Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), RG 233, Entry 362: Thirtieth Congress, 1847-1849, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Bills and Resolutions Originating in the House, 1847-1849, NAB,