For compensation to the Clerks in the Quartermaster General's office, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. For contingent expenses of the War Department, including all the subordinate offices thereof, seven thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, six thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Clerks in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, per act of twentieth April, one thou sand eight hundred and eighteen, eight thousand two hundred dollars.

For compensation to one Clerk in said office, per act of twenty-sixth May, one thousand eight hundred and twen ty-four, one thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Messenger and Assistant in said office, one thousand and fifty dollars, in full of all allowances.

For the contingent expenses of said office, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Commissioners of the Navy Board, ten thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Secretary to the Commissioners of the Navy Board, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Clerks in the office of the Commissioners of the Navy Board, per act of the twentieth

of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, three thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation to Clerks and a Draftsman, per act of twenty-sixth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, four thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Messenger in said office, seven hundred dollars, in full of all allowances.

For the contingent expenses of the said office, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

For allowance to the Superintendent and four Watchmen, employed for the security of the War and Navy buildings, and for the incidental and contingent expenses, including oil, fuel, and candles, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation to the Postmaster General, four thousand dollars.

For compensation to two Assistant Postmasters General, five thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Clerks in the General Post Office, per act of twentieth April, one thousand eight hun dred and eighteen, twenty-two thousand seven hundred dollars.

For compensation to Clerks in said office, per act of twenty-sixth May, one thousand eight hundred and twen ty-four, five thousand six hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Messengers in said office, one thousand and fifty dollars, in full of all allowances. For the contingent expenses of said office, four thousand dollars.

For repairing building and yard of the General Post Office, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to extra Clerks in the General Post Office, since the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty four, one thousand and eighty-eight dollars and six cents.

For compensation to the Surveyor General, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Clerks in the office of the Surveyor General, two thousand one hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Surveyor south of Tennessee, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Clerks in the office of the said Surveyor, one thousand seven hundred dollars.

For compensation of two additional Clerks in said office, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty. five, one thousand seven hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Surveyor in Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Clerks in the office of the said Surveyor, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Surveyor in Alabama, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Clerks in the office of the said Surveyor, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Surveyor in Florida, including part of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty. four, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Clerks in the office of the said Surveyor, two thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the Commissioner of the Public Buildings in Washington City, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For furnishing the President's House, under the direction of the President of the United States, fourteen thou sand dollars.

For compensation to the Officers and Clerk of the Mint, nine thousand six hundred dollars.

For compensation to persons employed in the different operations of the Mint, nine thousand four hundred dol lars.

For incidental and contingent expenses and repairs; cost of machinery, and for allowance of wastage in the gold and silver coinage of the Mint, seven thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars.

For compensation to the Governor, Judges, and Secretary, of the Michigan territory, seven thousand eight hun dred dollars.

For the contingent expenses of the Michigan territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation of nine members of the Legislative Council of the Michigan territory, one thousand and eighty dollars.

For defraying the expenses of the approaching session of the Legislative Council of the Michigan territory, three thousand and thirty two dollars.

For the contingent expenses of the Legislative Council, including the printing of the laws of said territory, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Governor, Judges, and Secretary, of the Arkansas territory, nine thousand dollars. For the contingent expenses of the Arkansas territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation to the Governor, Judges, and Secretary, of the Florida territory, eight thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation of thirteen members of the Legislative Council of the territory of Florida, estimating twenty. eight days, at three dollars per day, each, one thousand one hundred and seventy dollars.

For contingent expenses of the Legislative Council, including travelling expenses of the members, and printing the laws of said territory, two thousand dollars.

For the contingent expenses of the Florida territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation to the Chief Justice, the Associate Judges, and District Judges of the United States, including the Chief Justice and Associate Judges of the District of Columbia, seventy-nine thousand two hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Attorney General of the United States, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerk in the office of the Attorney General, eight hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, one thousand dollars. For compensation to sundry District Attorneys and Marshals, as granted by law, including those in the several territories, ten thousand five hundred dollars.

For defraying the expenses of the Supreme, Circuit, and District Courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia, and of jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, penalties, and forfeitures, and for defraying the expenses of prosecutions, for offences against the United States, and for the safe keeping of prisoners, two hundred thousand dollars.

For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and present Government, two thousand and fifty dollars. For the support and maintenance of light houses, beacons, buoys, and stakeages, including the purchase of oil, keepers' salaries, repairs, and improvements, and contingent expenses, one hundred and seventeen thousand four hundred and eighty-five dollars and eighty-five cents.

For procuring and placing three buoys on the bar, near the port of Georgetown, South Carolina, being the amount of an appropriation for that object, carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, three hundred dollars.

For building a light house on Baker's Island, near Mount Desert, in the state of Maine, in addition to the appropriation of two chousand five hundred dollars, made on the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and twentythree, one thousand three hundred dollars.

For placing a buoy at the mouth of Scuppernong river, in North Carolina, in addition to the appropriation of forty dollars, made on the twenty-sixth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, one hundred and forty dollars.

For placing a buoy at the entrance of Beaufort, in North Carolina, eight hundred dollars.

For the payment of balances due to officers of the old internal revenue and direct tax, being the amount carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, eight thousand one hundred and thirty-six dollars and fourteen cents.

For the Public Buildings in Washington City, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, eighty thousand dollars.

For repairs made to the fire engine and hose, for the use of the Public Buildings, and for keeping the same in repair, one hundred and ten dollars.

For improving the Capital Square, one thousand dollars.

For paving the footway in front of the public grounds on the south side of the Pennsylvania Avenue, between the Capitol and the Navy Office, and for placing stone steps at the several entrances of the Navy Office, six thousand one hundred and sixty-one dollars and ninety-seven cents.

For levelling, graduating, and improving the President's Square, five thousand dollars.

For stationery and books for the offices of Commissioners of Loans, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For bringing to the Seat of Government the votes for President and Vice President of the United States, three thousand three hundred dollars.

For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall be ascertained and admitted in due course of settlement at the Treasury, six thousand dollars.

For surveying the public lands of the United States, including the services of three commissioners and a surveyor, appointed to value the land, between Roberts and Ludlow's lines, in the state of Ohio, one hundred and fourteen thousand nine hundred and eighty-two dollars and sixty cents.

For the salaries of the Registers and Receivers of Land Offices, forty-two thousand dollars.

for the salaries of the Ministers at London, Paris, St. Petersburg, and Madrid, and of the Charge des Affaires at Stockholm, in the Netherlands, and at Lisbon, forty-nine thousand five hundred dollars.

For outfits of Ministers to London and Madrid, and for Charge des Affaires at Lisbon and Paris, twenty-seven thousand dollars.

For the salaries to Ministers, or Charge d'Affaires, who have been or may be appointed to the governments on the American continent, to wit: Colombia, nine thousand dollars; Chili, nine thousand dollars; Mexico, nine thousand dollars; Buenos Ayres, four thousand five hundred dollars; Guatamala, four thousand five hundred dollars; and Brazil, four thousand five hundred dollars: in all, forty thousand five hundred dollars.

For outfits of a Minister to Mexico, and to Charge d'Affaires at Guatamala, Buenos Ayres, and Brazil, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars.

For the salaries of the Secretaries of Legation, fourteen thousand dollars.

For the contingent expenses of all the Missions abroad, twenty thousand dollars.

For the salaries of Agents of Claims, at Paris and London, four thousand dollars.

For the contingent expenses of Foreign Intercourse, forty thousand dollars.

For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen in foreign countries, thirty-five thousand dollars. For the expenses of Intercourse with the Barbary Powers, thirty thousand dollars.

For the salaries of the Commissioner and Arbitrator under the first article of the treaty of Ghent, one-half the salary of the Secretary, and half the contingent expenses of the Commission, twelve thousand dollars.

For expenses of carrying into effect the sixth and seventh articles of the treaty of Ghent, including the compensation of the Commissioner, Agent, and Surveyor, and their contingent expenses, sixteen thousand dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums hereby appropriated, shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated: Provided, however, That no money appropriated by this act, shall be paid to any person for his compensation, who is in arrears to the United States, until such person shall have accounted for, and paid into the Treasury, all sums for which he may be liable: Provided, also, That nothing in this section contained shall be construed to extend to balances arising solely from the depreciation of Treasury notes, received by such person to be expended in the public service; but, in all cases where the pay or salary of any person is withheld, in pursuance of this act, it shall be the duty of the accounting officer, if demanded by the party, his agent, or attorney, to report forthwith to the agent of the Treasury Department, the balance due; and linquent and his sureties. shall be the duty of the said agent, within sixty days thereafter, to order suit to be commenced against such de

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and re

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quired to pay, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum or sums of money, t which any person, or the legal representatives of any person, may be entitled, by virtue of the act authorizing re payment for lands erroneously sold by the United States, approved the twelfth day of January, in the year eigh teen hundred and twenty-five, upon such person, or his or her legal representatives, complying with the reque

tions of that act.

Approved, February 25, 1825.

AN ACT making appropriation for the purchase of Books and Furniture for the use of the Library of Congress. Be it enacted, &c. That the sum of five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any un appropriated money in the Treasury, for the purchase of books, under the direction of the joint Library Comm tee, for the use of the Library of Congress.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of three hundred and thirty-nine dollars be, and the same is here by, appropriated, out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, for the purchase of furniture for the New Library.

Approved-Feb. 25, 1825.

RESOLUTION directing an inventory of the Furniture in the President's House to be taken. Resolved, &c. That the Commissioner of the Public Buildings be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed take an inventory of the furniture of the President's House, at such time as may be convenient to the President and to deliver a copy thereof to the President Elect, and one copy to each House of Congress.

AN ACT concerning Charles D. Brodie.

Approved-March 3, 1825.

Be it enacted, &c. That there be paid to Charles D. Brodie, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise propriated, the sum of one thousand dollars, for his invention and services in stopping a leak in the bottom of th Delaware seventy-four.

Approved-March 3, 1825.

AN ACT to reduce into one the several Acts establishing and regulating the Post Office Department, Be it enacted, &c. That there be established at the seat of the Government of the United States, a General Post Office, under the direction of a Postmaster General. The Postmaster General shall appoint two Assistants, an. such Clerks as may be necessary for the performance of the business of his office, and as are authorized by h and shall procure, and cause to be kept, a Seal for the said Office, which shall be affixed to commissions of Pos masters, and used to authenticate all transcripts and copies which may be required from the Department. shall establish Post Offices, and appoint Postmasters, at all such places as shall appear to him expedient, on t post roads that are, or may be, established by law. He shall give his Assistants, the Postmasters, and all other pe sons whom he shall employ, or who may be employed, in any of the departments of the General Post Office, i structions relative to their duty. He shall provide for the carriage of the mail on all post roads that are, or may be, established by law, and as often as he, having regard to the productiveness thereof, and other circumstance shall think proper. He may direct the route or road, where there are more than one, between places designated by law for a post road, which route shall be considered the post road. He shall obtain, from the Postmasters their accounts and vouchers for their receipts and expenditures, once in three months, or oftener, with the balanc thereon arising, in favor of the General Post Office. He shall pay all expenses which may arise in conducting the l'ost Office, and in the conveyance of the mail, and all other necessary expenses arising on the collection of th revenue, and management of the General Post Office. He shall prosecute offences against the Post Office est blishment. He shall, once in three months, render, to the Secretary of the Treasury, a quarterly account of all the receipts and expenditures in the said Department, to be adjusted and settled as other public accounts. He shal also, superintend the business of the Department, in all the duties that are, or may be, assigned to it: Provides That, in case of the death, resignation, or removal from office, of the Postmaster General, all his duties shall b performed by his senior Assistant, until a successor shall be appointed, and arrive at the General Office, to per form the business.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Postmaster General, and all other persons employed in the Gener Post Office, or in the care, custody, or conveyance of the mail, shall, previous to entering upon the duties assigne to them, or the execution of their trusts, and before they shall be entitled to receive any emolument therefor, t spectively take and subscribe the following oath, or affirmation, before some magistrate, and cause a certificate thereof to be filed in the General Post Office: "I, A B, do swear or affirm, (as the case may be,) that I will fat fully perform all the duties required of me, and abstain from every thing forbidden by the laws in relation to tar establishment of the Post Office and Post Roads within the United States." Every person who shall be, in a manner, employed in the care, custody, conveyance, or management of the mail, shall be subject to all pains, nalties, and forfeitures, for violating the injunctions, or neglecting the duties, required of him by the laws relating to the establishment of the Post Office and Post Roads, whether such person shall have taken the oath or affirms tion, above prescribed, or not.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Postmaster General, upon the appointment any Postmaster, to require, and take, of such Postmaster, bond, with good and approved security, in such pena as he may judge sufficient, conditioned for the faithful discharge of all the duties of such Postmaster, required b law, or which may be required by any instruction, or general rule, for the government of the Department: Procis ed, however, That, if default shall be made by the Postmaster aforesaid, at any time, and the Postmaster Gener shall fail to institute suit against such Postmaster, and said sureties, for two years from and after such default sh be made, then, and in that case, the said sureties shall not be held liable to the United States, nor shall suit be is stituted against them.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Postmaster General shall cause a mail to be carried from the neares Post Office, on any established post road, to the court house of any county, which is now, or may hereafter be, e

tablished in any of the states or territories of the United States, and which is without a mail; and the road on which such mail shall be transported, shall become a post road, and so continue, until the transportation thereon shall cease. It shall, also, be lawful for the Postmaster General to enter into contracts, for a term not exceeding four years, for extending the line of posts, and to authorize the persons, so contracting, as a compensation for their expenses, to receive, during the continuance of such contracts, at rates not exceeding those for like distances, established by this act, all the postage which shall arise on letters, newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, and packets, conveyed by any such posts; and the roads, designated in such contracts, shall, during the continuance thereof, be deemed and considered as post roads, within the provision of this act and a duplicate of every such contract shall, within sixty days after the execution thereof, be lodged in the office of the Comptroller of the Treasury of the United States.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Postmaster General be authorized to have the mail carried in any steam boat, or other vessel, which shall be used as a packet, in any of the waters of the United States, on such terms and conditions as shall be considered expedient: Provided, That he does not pay more than three cents for each letter, and more than one half-cent for each newspaper, conveyed in such mail.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of every master or manager of any steam-boat, which shall pass from one port or place in the United States, where a post office is established, to deliver, within three hours after his arrival, if in the day time, and within two hours after the next sunrise, if the arrival be in the night, all letters and packages addressed to, or destined for, such port or place, to the Postmaster there, for which he shall be entitled to receive, of such Postmaster, two cents for every letter or packet so delivered, unless the same shall be carried or conveyed under a contract with the Postmaster General; and if any master or manager of a steam boat shall fail so to deliver any letter or packet, which shall have been brought by him, or shall have been in his care, or within his power, he shall incur a penalty of thirty dollars for every such failure. And every person employed on board any steam boat, shall deliver every letter, and packet of letters, entrusted to such person, to the master or manager of such steam boat, and before the said vessel shall touch at any other port or place; and, for every failure or neglect so to deliver, a penalty of ten dollars shall be incurred for each letter or packet.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That no other than a free white person shall be employed in conveying the mail; and any contractor who shall employ, or permit, any other than a free white person to convey the mail, shall, for every such offence, incur a penalty of twenty dollars.

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That, whenever it shall be made appear, to the satisfaction of the Postmaster General, that any road established, or which may hereafter be established, as a post road, is obstructed by fences, gates, or bars, or other than those lawfully used on turnpike roads to collect their toll, and not kept in good repair, with proper bridges and ferries, where the same may be necessary, it shall be the duty of the Postmaster General to report the same to Congress, with such information as can be obtained, to enable Congress to establish some other road instead of it, in the same main direction.

Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That, if any person shall, knowingly and wilfully, obstruct, or retard, the pas sage of the mail, or of any driver or carrier, or of any horse o carriage, carrying the same, he shall, upon conviction, for every such offence, pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars; and if any ferryman shall, by wilful negligence, or refusal to transport the mail across any ferry, delay the same, he shall forfeit and pay, for every ten minutes that the same shall be so delayed, a sum not exceeding ten dollars.

Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, that it shall be the duty of the Postmaster General to give public notice, in one newspaper published at the seat of Government of the United States, and in one or more of the newspapers published in the state, or states, or territory, where the contract is to be performed, for at least twelve weeks before entering into any contract for carrying the mail, that such contract is intended to be made, and the day on which it is to be concluded, describing the places from, and to which such mail is to be conveyed, the time at which it is to be made up, and the day and hour at which it is to be delivered. He shall, moreover, within ninety days after the making of any contract, lodge a duplicate thereof, together with the proposals which he shall have received respecting it, in the office of the Comptroller of the Treasury of the United States: Provided, That no contract shall be entered into for a longer term than four years.

Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That every Postmaster shall keep an office, in which one or more persons shall attend on every day on which a mail shall arrive, by land or water, as well as on other days, at such hours as the Postmaster General shall direct, for the purpose of performing the duties thereof; and it shall be the duty of the Postmaster, at all reasonable hours, on every day of the week, to deliver, on demand, any letter, paper, or packet, to the person entitled to, or authorized to receive, the same; and all letters brought to any post office half an hour before the time of making up the mail at such office, shall be forwarded therein, except at such post offices where, in the opinion of the Postmaster General, it requires more time for making up the mail, and which he shall accordingly prescribe; but this shall, in no case, exceed one hour.

Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That no fees or perquisites shall be received by any person employed in the General Post Office, on account of the duties to be performed by virtue of his appointment.

Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That the following rates of postage be charged on all letters and packets, (excepting such as are excepted by law,) conveyed in the mail of the United States, viz: For every letter composed of a single sheet of paper, conveyed not exceeding thirty miles, six cents. Over thirty, and not exceeding eighty, Over eighty, and not exceeding one hundred and fifty, twelve and a half cents. Over one hundred and fifty, and not exceeding four hundred, eighteen and three quarters of a cent. Over four hundred, twenty-five

ten cents.

cents.

And for every double letter, or letter composed of two pieces of paper, double those rates; and for every triple letter, or letter composed of three pieces of paper, triple those rates; and for every packet composed of four or more pieces of paper, or one or more other articles, and weighing once ounce avoirdupois, quadruple those rates; and in that proportion for all greater weights: Provided, That no packet of letters, conveyed by the water mails, shall be charged with more than quadruple postage, unless the same shall contain more than four distinct letters. No postmaster shall receive, to be conveyed by the mail, any packet which shall weigh more than three pounds; and the postage marked on any letter or packet, and charged in the post bill which may accompany the same, shall be conclusive evidence in favor of the postmaster who delivers the same, of the lawful postage thereon; unless such letter or packet shall be opened in presence of the postmaster or his clerk. Every four folio pages, or eight quarto pages, or sixteen octavo, or twenty-four duodecimo pages, or pages less than that of a pamphlet size, or magazine, whatever be the size of the paper of which it is formed, shall be considered a sheet; and the surplus

pages of any pamphlet or magazine shall also be considered a sheet; and the journals of the legislatures of the several states, not being bound, shall be liable to the same postage as pamphlets.

Any memorandum which shall be written on a newspaper, or other printed paper, pamphlet, or magazine, and transmitted by mail, shall be charged with letter postage: Provided, The publisher of a newspaper may send a printed or written notice to a subscriber, stating the amount due on his subscription; which notice shall be attached to the margin of the newspaper, and the postmaster who delivers the paper shall charge for such notice the same postage as for a newspaper.

Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby authorized to allow to each postmaster, such commission on the postages by him collected, as shall be adequate to his services and expenses: Provided, That his commission shall not exceed the following several rates on the amount received in one quar ter, viz:

On a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, thirty per cent.

On any sum over and above the first hundred dollars, and not exceeding four hundred dollars, twenty-five per

cent.

On any sum over and above the first four hundred dollars, and not exceeding two thousand four hundred dol. lars, twenty per cent.

On any sum over and above the first two thousand four hundred dollars, eight per cent.

Except to the Postmasters who may be employed in receiving and despatching foreign mails, whose compensa tion may be augmented, not exceeding twenty-five dollars in one quarter; and excepting to the Postmasters at offices where the mail is regularly to arrive between the hours of nine o'clock at night and five o'clock in the morning, whose commission on the first hundred dollars collected in one quarter, may be increased to a sum not exceeding fifty per cent. The Postmaster General may allow to the Postmasters, respectively, a commission of fifty per cent. on the moneys arising from the postage of newspapers, magazines, and pamphlets; and to the Postmasters whose compensation shall not exceed five hundred dollars in one quarter, two cents for every free letter delivered out of the office, excepting such as are for the Postmaster himself; and each Postmaster, who shall be required to keep a register of the arrival and departure of the mails, shall be allowed ten cents for each monthly return which he makes thereof to the General Post Office. The Postmaster General may allow to the Postmaster at New Orleans, at the rate of eight hundred dollars a year, in addition to his ordinary commissions. The Postmaster General is hereby authorized to allow to the Postmaster of the City of Washington, in addition to the allowance made by this act, for postage collected, and for free letters received by him for delivery, a commis sion of five per cent. on the amount of mails distributed at his office: Provided, nevertheless, That the whole annual emolument of the said Postmaster, including the extra compensation of eight hundred dollars which is hereby al lowed him, shall be subject to the restrictions imposed by the forty-first section of this act.

Sec 15 And be it further enacted, That every letter or packet, brought into the United States, or carried from one port therein to another, in any private ship or vessel, shall be charged with six cents, if delivered at the Post Office where the same shall arrive; and if destined to be conveyed by post to any place, with two cents added to the ordinary rates of postage.

Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That, if any Postmaster, or other person, authorized by the Postmaster General to receive the postage of letters, shall fraudulently demand or receive any rate of postage, or gratuity, or reward, other than is provided by this act, for the postage of letters, or packets, on conviction thereof, he shall foreit, for every such offence, one hundred dollars.

Sec. 17. And be it further enacted, That no ship or vessel, arriving at any port within the United States where a Post Office is established, shall be permitted to report, make entry, or break bulk, until the master or commander shall have delivered to the Postmaster all letters directed to any person or persons within the United States, of the territories thereof, which, under his care, or within his power, shall be brought in such ship or vessel, except such as are directed to the owner or consignee of the ship or vessel. And it shall be the duty of the Collector of other officer of the port empowered to receive entries of ships or vessels, to require from every master or com mander of such ship or vessel, an oath or affirmation, purporting that he has delivered all such letters, except as aforesaid; and if any commander or master of any such ship or vessel shall break bulk before he shall have com plied with the requirements of this act, every such offender shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit, for every such of fence, a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.

Sec. 18. And be it further enacted, That the Postmaster, to whom such letters may be delivered, shall pay the master or commander, or other person delivering the same, except the commanders of foreign packets, two cents for each letter or packet; and shall obtain from the person delivering the same, a certificate, specifying the num ber of letters and packets, with the name of the ship or vessel, and the place from whence she last sailed; which certificate, together with a receipt for the money, shall be, with his quarterly accounts, transmitted to the Postmaster General, who shall credit him with the amount.

Sec. 19. And be it further enacted, That no stage or other vehicle, which regularly performs trips on a Post Road, or on a road parallel to it, shall convey letters; nor shall any packet, boat, or other vessel, which regularly plies on a water declared to be a Post Road, except such as relate to some part of the cargo. For the violation of this provision, the owner of the carriage, or other vehicle, or vessel, shall incur the penalty of fifty dollars. And the person who has charge of such carriage, or other vehicle, or vessel, may be prosecuted under this sec tion, and the property in his charge may be levied on and sold, in satisfaction of the penalty and costs of suit. Provided, That it shall be lawful for any one to send letters by special messenger.

Sec. 20. And be it further enacted, That the Deputy Postmaster, and other agents of the Postmaster General, shall duly account, and answer to him for all way letters which shall come to their hands; and for this purpose, the Post riders, and other carriers of the mail, receiving any way letter or letters, (and it shall be their duty to re ceive them, if presented more than one mile from a Post Office,) shail deliver the same, together with the post age, if paid, at the first Post Office to which they shall afterwards arrive; where the Postmaster shall duly enter the same, and specify the number and rate or rates, in the post bill, adding to the rate of each way letter, one cent which shall be paid by the Postmaster to the mail carrier from whom such way letters shall be received.

Sec. 21. And be it further enacted, That, if any person employed in any of the departments of the Post Office establishment, shall unlawfully detain, delay, or open, any letter, packet, bag, or mail of letters, with which he shall be entrusted, or which shall have come to his possession, and which are intended to be conveyed by post, or, if any such person shall secrete, embezzle, or destroy, any letter or packet entrusted to such person as afore said, and which shall not contain any security for, or assurance relating to, money, as hereinafter described, every