Post-roads os

tablished in

Michigan;

Minnesota;

Missouri;

From Montague to Stanley.

MICHIGAN.

From Hersey to mouth of Chippewa Creek.

From Montague to Otto.

MINNESOTA.

From Houston, Minnesota, via Dedham, Blackhammer, Spring Grove, Prairie Grove, Locust Lane, and Canoe, in said State, to Decorah, Iowa. From Waseca, via Otisco, Woodville, and Richland, to Albert Lea. From Jackson, via Lake Talcott, Lake Shetek, Saratoga, and Lynde, to Redwood Falls.

From Lime Springs, State of Iowa, via Canfield, Cherry Grove, and
Aetna, to Spring Valley, Minnesota.

From Paynesville, via Spring Hill and Bishop's Grove, to Sauk Centre.
From Saint Cloud to Rockville.

From Twin Lakes, via Fond du Lac and Oneota, to Du Luth.

From Sauk Rapids, via Princeton, to Taylor's Falls.

From Moore's Prairie to Rice City.

From Afton to Stillwater.

From Mankato, via Red Jacket Mills, Castle Garden, Good Thunder's Ford, and Mapleton, to Minnesota Lake.

From Waseca, via Josco, Janesville, and Leroy, to Mankato.

MISSOURI.

From Trenton, in Grundy county, Missouri, via Edenburg, Grub-town, and Bolton, to Bethany, in Harrison county, Missouri.

From Finney's Grove, in Carroll county, Missouri, to Utica, in Livingston county, in Missouri.

From Rolla to Jefferson.

From Rolla to Rolesdale, in Arkansas.

From Salem, via Eminence, to Thomasville.

From Breckinridge to Finney's Grove.

From Carthage to Fort Scott in Kansas.

From Rolla, via Campbell Mill, Plumb Point, and Rowden's Mill, to
Rocktown.

From New Haven, via Benaf Creek, and Stony Hill, to Drake.
From Saint Charles, via Portage des Siouux, to Alton, in Illinois.
From Rolla to Forsythe.

From Rocheport, via Old Franklyn, Boonesboro', and Lisbon, to
Glasgow.

From Patterson, via McKenzie's Creek, and Monmouth Springs, to Logan's Creek.

From Pleasant Home to Wilmothville.

From Chillicothe, via School Creek, to Carrolton.

From Rockville, via West Point, Butler, and Johnston to Clinton.

From Rocheport, via Hudson, Johnson City, and Chalk Level, to Osceola.

From Holden, via Hughes' Store, Norrisfork, and Huntingdale, to Clinton.

From Clinton, via Belvoir and Nevada City, to Lamar.

From Osceola, via Hudson, to Butler.

From California, via Magnolia, High Point, Rocky Mount, and Mining, to Linn Creek.

From Cole Camp, via Lake Creek, Haw Creek, and Byler's Mill, to Duroc.

From Bolivar, via Stockton, Virgil City, and Nevada City, to Fort Scott, in Kansas.

From Butler, via West Point, to Rockville, in Kansas.

From Warrensburg, via Chalybeate and Chilhowee, to Wadesburg.
From Versailles, via Tuckerville, to Roney.

From Clinton, via Manhall Creek, Monegan, Taberville, Altoona, and
Blue Mounds, to Nevada City.

From Boonville, via Vandalia, Pilot Grove, Cold Neck, and Buncombe, to Sedalia.

NEBRASKA.

From Columbus to Madison.

From Lincoln to Columbus.

From Grand Island City to Lincoln.

From Elkhorn Station, via Lincoln, to Watertown, in Kansas.

From Dakota City, via Sag Udahoe, Canton, and York City, to Madison.

From Papillion, via Plattford, South Bend, and E. Ball's, on Stephenson Creek, to Lincoln.

From Nebraska City, via Lincoln, to Camden.

From Camden, via the west branch of Blue river, West's Mills, Beaver Crossing, and McFadden, to Fort Kearney.

From Swan City, via Monroe, to West's Mills.

From Lincoln, via Tecumseh, Pawnee City, and Fries Mills, to Albany.
From Fremont to Lincoln.

From Columbus to Norfolk.

NORTH CAROLINA.

From Fair Bluff to Conwayboro, thence to Bucksville and Georgetown, South Carolina.

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

From Plymouth to West Compton.

NEW JERSEY.

From Pomonia to Port Republic.

From Sparta to Newton.

From Bricksburgh to Point Pleasant.

NEVADA.

From Austin to White Pine district.

NEW YORK.

From Berkshire, via East Berkshire, to Lisle.

From Apalachin to Campville.

From Maine, via Glen Aubrey, to Whitney's Point.

From Hadley to Creek Centre.

From Rochester, via Hanford's Landing, Greece, and West Greece, to North Greece.

From Spencerport, via Parma and Parma Centre, to North Parma. From Lake View, via North Evans, Eden Valley, Eden and Collins, to Shirley.

From Springbrook, via East Elma, Manilla, to Williston.

OHIO.

From Washington, via Bloomingsburg, Midway, and Newport, to London.

From Broadway, via Newton, York Centre, West Mansfield, North Greenfield, and Walnut Grove, to Rushsylvania.

From Richmond, via Pharisburg, to Marysville.

From East Liberty, via North Greenfield, to West Mansfield.

Nevada;

New York;

Ohio.

Post-roads established in

Oregon;

Pennsylvania.

From Tippecanoe City, via Ginghamsburg and Fidelity, to Union.
From Genoa to Shadesville.

From Lancaster, via West Rushville, to Rushville.

From New Holland to Chillicothe.

From Troy, via Alcony, to Christiansburg.

From Craton to Johnstown.

From Pulaski, in Pennsylvania, via New Bedford, to Youngstown, in Ohio.

OREGON.

From Portland via Taylor's Ferry, Dayton, Amity, Rickreal, and Monmouth, to Corvallis.

From Dallas, via Salt Creek and Halls, to Grand Ronde.

From Astoria, via Clatsap, Summer House, Elk Creek, Nehalem, Miami Point, Chilches Point, and Netrarch Landing, to Tillamook. From Fairfield, by Saint Louis, Waconda, Parkersville, and Monitor, to Needy, twenty miles.

PENNSYLVANIA.

From New Wilmington to Pulaski.

From New Wilmington, via Neshannock Falls and Volant, to Leesburg.

From Oley, via Yellow House and Amityville, to Douglassville.

From Brodhead Station, via Hecktown to Nazareth.

From London Grove to Toughkenamon.

From Oley, via Green Hill, New Jerusalem, and Drysville, to Lyon's Station.

From Leagerstown to Blooming Valley.

From Lancaster to Liberty Square.

From Curllsville, via Sligo Furnace, to Callonsburg.

From Montgomery Station, via Mount Zion, to Elmsport.

From Greensburg, via Middletown, to New Stanton.

From Sieglesville to Milroy.

From Carroltown, via Glassers, Elder's Mills, and Saint Lawrence, to Mount Pleasant.

From Rogersville, via Walnut Brush, Burt Mill, and Big Tree, to Cameron, in West Virginia.

From Mill City to Falls.

From Annville, via Carpers, Kelly's Corner, and Centreville, to Mount Joy.

From Palmyra, Campbellstown, Bachmansville, and Mount Harrison, to Elizabethtown.

From Bloody Run to Orleans, in Maryland.

From Garland to South West.

From Newville to Blaserville.

From Ashland, via Gordon, Taylorsville, and Wishampleton, to Hegins.

From Greensburg, via Middleton, to Madison.

From York, via Dover, Rossville, Wellsville, and Mount Top, to Dillsburg.

From Mechanicsburg, via Siddonsburg, Lisburn, Lewisberry, Newberry, and Yocumtown, to Etter's.

From Sabinsville, in the county of Tioga, via Mixtown and Sanderlinville, to Ulysses, in the county of Potter.

From English Centre, in the county of Lycoming, to Morris Post Office, at W. W. Babb's, in Morris township, in Tioga county.

From Alba, in Bradford county, to Fall Brook, in the county of Tioga.

From Fallen Timber, via Gill's Mills, Glen Connell, and Elder's Mills, to Carrolton.

From the city of Reading, via Black Bear Tavern, Oley turnpike road, Post-roads esand Manatauney Post Office, to Pike Post-Office, in Pike township.

tablished in

From Chilton, via Bachelor Schoolhouse, Potter's Mills, Duell's Mills, Brillion, and Holland, to Wrightstown.

From La Crosse, via Chaseburg, Enterprise, and Springville, to Viroqua.

From White Hall to Franklin.

From Neillsville to Dexterville.

From Hixton, via Pole Grove, to Houghtonburg.

From Garden Valley, via Augusta, to Eau Claire.

From Pine Hill, via Hop Hollow, to the Saint Croix railroad.

From Goole to Hillsboro'.

From Debillo, via Oaks and Ironton, to Barabo.

Tennessee;

West Virginia;

Wisconsin;

Utah Terri

tory.

CHAP. CCXLV. - An Act relating to the Freedmen's Bureau and providing for its July 25, 1868.

Discontinuance.

of bureau for re

Vacancy, how filled.

Army officer

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the duties and powers of Powers, &c. commissioner of the bureau for the relief of freedmen and refugees shall of commissioner continue to be discharged by the present commissioner of the bureau, and lief of freedmen, in case of vacancy in said office occurring by reason of his death or resig- &c. to be discharged by nation, the same shall be filled by appointment of the President on the whom. nomination of the Secretary of War, and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and no officer of the army shall be detailed for service as commissioner or shall enter upon the duties of commissioner unless ap- not to be depointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and all assist- tailed, unless, ant commissioners, agents, clerks, and assistants, shall be appointed by Assistants, the Secretary of War on the nomination of the commissioner of the clerks, &c. how bureau. In case of vacancy in the office of commissioner happening appointed. If vacancy in during the recess of the Senate, the duties of commissioner shall be dis- office of commischarged by the acting assistant adjutant-general of the bureau until such sioner happens vacancy can be filled.

&c.

in recess of senate.

the several

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the commissioner of the Bureau to be bureau shall, on the first day of January next, cause the said bureau to be withdrawn from withdrawn from the several States within which said bureau has acted and its operations shall be discontinued. But the educational department of the said bureau and the collection and payment of moneys due the VOL. XV. PUB. - 13

States, January 1, 1869.

Educational department, &c. continued.

Freedmen's Bureau.

July 27, 1868.

Certain un

called-for letters to writer with

to be returned

out additional postage.

Payment for money orders.

soldiers, sailors, and marines, or their heirs, shall be continued as now provided by law until otherwise ordered by act of Congress.

SCHUYLER COLFAX,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

B. F. WADE,

President of the Senate pro tempore.

IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,

July 25, 1868.

The President of the United States having returned to the Senate, in which it originated, the bill entitled "An act relating to the Freedmen's Bureau and providing for its Discontinuance," with his objections thereto, the Senate proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsider the same; and

Resolved, That the said bill do pass, two thirds of the Senate agreeing to pass the same. Attest:

GEO. C. GORHAM,

Secretary of the Senate.

The House of Representatives having proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsider the bill entitled "An act relating to the Freedmen's Bureau and providing for its Discontinuance," returned to the Senate by the President of the United States, with his objections, and sent by the Senate to the House of Representatives, with the message of the President returning the bill Resolved, That the bill do pass, two thirds of the House of Representatives agreeing to pass the same. Attest:

EDWD. MCPHERSON,
Clerk H. R. V. S.

An Act to further amend the postal Laws.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That when any writer of a letter, on which the postage is prepaid, shall endorse in writing or in print upon the outside thereof his name and address, the same, after remaining unclalled [uncalled] for at the post-office to which it is directed thirty days, or the time the writer may direct, shall be returned to the said writer without additional postage, whether a specific request for such return be endorsed on the letter or not.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all persons who receive money orders shall be required to pay therefor the following charges or fees, viz. For one dollar or any sum not exceeding twenty dollars, a fee of ten cents shall be charged and exacted by the postmaster giving said order; for all orders exceeding twenty dollars and not exceeding thirty dollars, the charge shall be fifteen cents; for all orders exceeding thirty dollars and not exceeding forty dollars, the fee shall be twenty cents; for all orders exceeding forty dollars and not exceeding fifty dollars, the fee shall be twenty-five cents; and furthermore that the compensation of deputy postmasters for the payment of money orders is hereby increased from one eighth to one fourth of one per centum on the gross amount of orders paid at their respective offices, and that nothing contained in any act shall be so construed as to deprive postmasters at money-order offices of the compensation for transacting the money-order business fixed by the act of Vol. xiii. p. 76. May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and modified as stated in this section: Provided always, That the amount of such annual com

Pay of postmasters for the money order business.

1864, ch. 87.