US Post Offices & Postmasters in 1866 - Perquimans County Page

salaryAN ACT RELATING TO THE POSTAL LAWS.xxn.and experience as carriers, the Postmaster General mayincrease their respective salaries fn,m time to time toany sum not exceeding one thousni'd dollars; and eachof the said curriers shall give bond, with sureties, to heapproved by the Postmaster General, for the safe custodyand delivery of all letters, packets, and moneys receivedby him.Seo. 15. And be it further enacted, That all expensesfor the letter-carriers, branch offices, and receivingboxes, or incident thereto, shall be entered and reportedin a separate account lVom the ordinary postal expensesof suci post office, and shall be shown in comparisonwith the proceeds of the postages on local mail matter ateach office, in order that the Postmaster General may beguided in the expenditures for that branch of the postalservice by income derived therefrom.Seo. 16. And be it further enacted, That the eighth,eleventh, and fourteenth sections of the act entitled " Anact to amend the laws relating to the Post Office Department,"approved March three, eighteen hundred andsixty-three, the provisions of which have been modifiedand incorporated in this act, be, and the same are herebyrepealed.Seo. 17. And be it further enacted, That the specialagent of the Post Office Department in the Pacific Statesand Territories ghall receive as compensation five dollarsper diem.AN ACT RELATING TO THE POSTAL LA¥S.Approved, March 3, 1865.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of liepresenta- of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum,|tines of the United States of America in Congress assem under the act of March two, eighteen hundred and sixtyone,with an allowance, in addition thereto, of a sum notbled, That all domestic letters, except letters lawfullyfranked, and duly certified letters of soldiers, and mariners,in the service of the United States, which areexceeding five dollars per diem, to provide for his actualdepositedfor mailing in any post ofice of the United States,on which the postage is unpaid, shall be. sent by the postmasterto the Dead Letter Office in Washington; and allletters deposited for mailing, paid only in part, shall beforwarded to destination, charged with the unpaid rate,to be collected on delivery.Seo. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions ofthe act entitled " An act f..r the relief of postmasters whohave been robbed by Confederate forces or rebel guerrillas,"approved April twenty-nine, eighteen hundred andsixty-four, be, and the same are hereby, extended to casesof loyal postmasters, where, by reason of the presence ofarmed forces, a post office is destroyed and the postmasterloses the fixtures and furniture or postage stamps andHtamped envelopes ;and also to cases where such lossesare occasioned by armed forces other than those of theso-called Confederate States.Seo. 3. And be it further enacted, That, in addition tothe items of rent, fuel, light and clerks, enumerated inthe fifth section of the act approved July first, eighteenhundred and sixty-four, the Postmaster General be, andhe is hereby, authorized to allow, at his discretion, out ofthe revenues of the office at New York, and of offices ofthe first, second, third, and fourth classes, a just andreasonable sum for the necessary cost, in whole or inpart, as well of the foregoing item as of furniture, stationery,printing, and other items of expenditure requiredat offices of those classes, to be adjusted upon a satisfactoryexhibit of the facts ; and that he be authorized to payout of the proceeds of the money- order business the costof stationery and such other incidental expenses as arenecessary to the transaction of that business.Seo. 4. And be it further enacted, That the seventhsection of the act entitled " An act to amend the lawsrelating to the Post Office Department," approved Marchthree, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, be, and the sameis hereby, amended so as to authorize the PostmasterGeneral to allow for the publication, in newspapers, ofthe list of non-delivered letters at any post office, compensationat a rate not to exceed two cents for each letterso advertised.Seo. 5. And be it further enacted, That the seventeenthsection of the act entitled " An act to establish salariesfor postmasters, and for other purposes," approved Julyone, eighteen hundred and sixty -four, be, and the sameis hereby, amended so as to restore, from the date of itspassage, to the Special Agent of the Post Office Departmentin the Pacific States and Territories, his regulartraveling and incidental expenses while actively employedin the service. And the Postmaster General is herebyauthorized to appoint an additional Special Agent for thePacific States and Territories, and two additional SpecialAgents to superintend postal matters connected with therailway mail service of the United States, who shall receivethe same salary and per diem allowance, in addition,for traveling and incidental expenses, to be paidout of the appropriation for mail transportation.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That hereafter SpecialAgents of the Post Office Department, other thanthose appointed for the Pacific States and Territories, orthose appointed under the authority of the preceding sectionof this act to superintend postal matters connectedwith the railway service of the United States, shall beallowed for their necessary 'traveling and incidental expenses,while actively employed in the service, a sum notexceeding five dollars per diem.Seo. 7. And be it further enacted, That the PostmasterGeneral be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay, outof the appropriation for miscellaneous expenses, the sumof ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may berequired, for defraying the necessary expense of preparingand publishing a set of post-route maps, arranged byStates and groups of States, and showing all the permanentmail routes, distances, and post offices thereon, inthe United States, with other statistical information.Seo. 8. And be it further enacted, That for the purposeof assorting and distributing letters and other mail matterin railway post offices, the Postmaster General may,from time to time, appoint clerks, who shall be paid outof the appropriation for mail transportation : Provided,That the salary of each head clerk so appointed and employedshall not exceed fourteen hundred dollars perannum, and that the salary of other clerks shall not exceedtwelve hundred dollars each per annum.Seo. 9. And be it further enacted, That the provisionsof the fourth section of the act entitled "An act makingappropriations for the service of the Post Office Depart-year ending the thirtieth of June,ment during the fiscaleighteen hundred and sixty-one," approved June fifteenth,eighteen hundred and sixty, be, and the same are hereby,modified so as to authorize the Postmaster General tocause the mails to be transported between the UnitedStates and any foreign port or ports, or between ports ofthe United Slates, touching at a foreign port, by steamship,allowing and paying therefor, if by an Americanvessel, any sum not exceeding the sea and UnitedStates inland postage, and if by a foreign vessel, any