Postmaster-General, (continued.)

may cancel a certain contract for carry-
ing the mail, and make a new one...22, 23
to send printed copy of postal conventions
to Secretary of State...

to establish regulations as to transmis-
sion of letters, &c. to and from the con-
gressional printer, free of postage.....
may appoint and employ government
agent on each mail steamer between
San Francisco, Honolulu, Japan, and
China....

may establish a general postal agency at
Shanghai, and branches at other ports
in China and Japan.......

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195

pay and report of such postal agents 195
may appoint a superintendent of foreign
mails....

and three additional clerks....

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for knowingly uttering any such or-
der, with intent, &c....

195

sales of postage-stamps, &c. at discount,
limited in amount, and as to persons
who may sell..

196

letters, &c. concerning lotteries, &c. not

three thousand copies of report of, to be
printed.....

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blank agency for Post-Office Department
established at Washington....
superintendents and assistants, and
their salaries....

196

....

other blank agencies abolished.

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regulations by, as to sending free of
postage, medals, &c. awarded to sol-
diers, by legislatures of States......
to change the character of the mail ser-
vice from Fort Abercrombie to Helena.. 254
appropriations for the...
..195, 297

to report at next December session of
Congress, the number of desks, clerks,
&c. in his department...
with the Secretary of the Treasury, may
exchange certain property in the park,
in the city of New York...

Postmaster of House of Representatives,

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305

to account to clerk of house for all sta-
tionery received and distributed by him 94

appropriation for compensation of....55, 323
for allowances to...

limit of amount...

Postmasters,

pay of, for money-order business..

failure to instituce suit for two years

against defaulting, not to discharge
his suretics....

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