Dedications and intended to designate a word or passage of the text to which it is desired Penalty. SEC. 23. That matter of the second, third, or fourth class containing Second, third, and any writing or printing other than indicated in the preceding section, or fourth-class matter containing writing, made in the manner other than therein indicated, shall not be delivered etc. except upon the payment of postage for matter of the first class, deducting therefrom any amount which may have been prepaid by stamps affixed to such matter; and any person who shall conceal or inclose any matter of a higher class in that of a lower class, and deposit, or cause the same to be deposited, for conveyance by mail, at a less rate than would be charged for both such higher and lower class matter, shall, for every such offense, be liable to a penalty of ten dollars: Provided, however That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent publishers of the second class and news agents from inclosing, in their publications, bills, receipts and orders for subscription thereto; but such bills, receipts, and orders shall be in such form as to convey no other information than the name, location, and subscription price of the publication or publications to which they refer. Proviso. Regulations for SEC. 24. That the Postmaster General may prescribe, by regulation, the manner of wrapping and securing for the mails all packages of matter wrapping matter. not charged with first class postage, so that the contents of such packages may be easily examined; and no package the contents of which cannot be easily examined shall pass in the mails, or be delivered at a less rate than for matter of the first class. County newspa Proviso. SEC. 25. That publications of the second class, one copy to each actual subscriber residing in the county where the same are printed, in whole pers, etc. or in part, and published, shall go free through the mails; but the same shall not be delivered at letter carrier offices, or distributed by carriers, unless postage is paid thereon at the rate prescribed in section thirteen of this act: Provided, That the rate of postage on newspapers, excepting weeklies, and periodicals not exceeding two ounces in weight, when the same are deposited in a letter-carrier office for delivery by its carriers, shall be uniform at one cent each; periodicals weighing more than two offices. ounces shall be subject, when delivered by such carriers, to a postage of two cents each, and these rates shall be prepaid by stamps affixed. Rates at carrier Insufficiently paid Deficiency stamps. SEC 26. That all mail-matter of the first class upon which one full rate of postage has been prepaid shall be forwarded to its destination, letters. charged with the unpaid rate, to be collected on delivery; but postmasters, before delivering the same, or any article of mail-matter upon which prepayment in full has not been made, shall affix, or cause to be affixed, and canceled, as ordinary stamps are canceled, one or more stamps equivalent in value to the amount of postage due on such article of mail-matter, which stamps shall be of such special design and denomination as the Postmaster-General may prescribe, and which shall in no case be sold by any postmaster nor received by him in prepayment of postage. That in lieu of the commission now allowed to postmasters at offices of the fourth class upon the amount of unpaid letter-postage deficiency stamps. collected, such postmasters shall receive a commission upon the amount of such special stamps so canceled, the same as now allowed upon postage stamps, stamped envelopes postal cards, and newspaper and periodical stamps canceled as postages on matter actually mailed at their offices: Provided, The Postmaster General may, in his discretion, prescribe instead such regulation therefor at the offices where free delivery is established as, in his judgment, the good of the service may require. Commissions Proviso. on Penalty for failure to aco unt for postage. ter. Canceled stamps. Washing. Using. Envelopes. Penalty. 1877, ch. 103, 19 Stat., 335. SEC. 27. That any postmaster or other person engaged in the postal service who shall collect, and fail to account for, the postage due upon any article of mail-matter which he may deliver, without having previ ously affixed and canceled such special stamps, as herein before provided, or who shall fail to affix such stamp, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars. SEC. 28. That any person who shall use, or attempt to use, in payment of postage, any canceled postage-stamp or postage-stamps, whether the same have been before used or not, or who shall by any means remove, or attempt to remove, or assist in removing, marks from any postage stamp or postage-stamps, with intent to use the same in payment of postage, or who knowingly shall have in his possession any postagestamp or postage-stamps canceled, with intent to use the same, or from which such cancellation-marks have been removed, or who shall sell or offer to sell any such stamp or stamps or who shall use or attempt to use the same in payment of postage, or who shall remove the superscription from any stamped envelope or postal card that has once been used in the payment of postage, with intent to again use the same for a like purpose, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment for not less than six months nor more than one year, or by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for each offense, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. SEC. 29. The provisions of the fifth and sixth sections of the act entitled "An act establishing post-routes, and for other purposes", approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, for the transOfficial mail-mat- mission of official mail-matter, be, and they are hereby, extended to all officers of the United States Government, and made applicable to all official mail-matter transmitted between any of the officers of the United States, or between any such officer and either of the executive departments or officers of the government, the envelopes of such matter in all cases to bear appropriate indorsements containing the proper designation of the office from which the same is transmitted, with a statement Smithsonian In- of the penalty for their misuse. And the provisions of said fifth and sixth sections are hereby likewise extended and made applicable to all official mail-matter sent from the Smithsonian Institution: Provided, That this act shall not extend or apply to pension-agents or other officers who receive a fixed allowance as compensation for their services, including expenses for postage. stitution. Proviso. R. S. 3955, SEC. 30. That section thirty-nine hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: New sureties on "The Postmaster-General, whenever, he may deem it consistent with the public interest, may accept or require new surety upon any contract existing or hereafter made for carrying the mails, in substitution for and release of any existing surety". mail contracts. Ad interim postmaster. Letter-sheet envel ope. Double cards. SEC. 31. Any person performing the duties of postmaster, by authority of the President, at any post-office where there is a vacancy for any cause, shall receive for the term for which the duty is performed the same compensation to which he would have been entitled if regularly appointed and confirmed as such postmaster; and all services heretofore rendered in like cases shall be paid for under this provision. SEC. 32. That the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized to take the necessary steps to introduce and furnish for public use a letter-sheet envelope, on which postage-stamps of the denominations now in use on ordinary envelopes shall be placed. And the Postmaster-General is also authorized to introduce and furnish for public use a double postal card, on which shall be placed two one-cent stamps, and said card to be so arranged for the address that it may be forwarded and returned, said cards to be sold for two cents apiece; and also to introduce and furnish Double envelopes. for public use a double-letter envelope, on which stamps of the denominations now in use may be placed, and with the arrangement for the address similar to the double postal card; said letter-sheet and double postal card and double envelope to be issued under such regulations as the Postmaster-General may prescribe: Provided, That the appropriation for postal cards and letter-envelopes for the years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine and eighteen hundred and eighty, shall be available for the purchase of said letter-sheet envelopes, double or return postal cards, and double-letter envelopes: And provided, That no money shall be paid for royalty or patent on any of the articles named. SEC. 33. That so much of this act as is embraced in sections four to thirty-one both inclusive, shall take effect from the first day of May, 1879, and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. Attest: Approved, March 3, 1879. CHAP. 181.-An act making appropriations for the construction, repair, preservation, and completion of certain works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes. Proviso. Proviso. In force. March 3, 1879. Rivers and har Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums of money be, Appropriations. and are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treas ury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended, under the direction of bors. the Secretary of War, for the construction, completion, repair and preservation of the public works hereinafter named: Penobscot River. For improving Penobscot River, Maine, six thousand dollars. For improving Richmond Island Harbor, Maine, three thousand dol-Richmond Island lars. For improving Kennebunk River, Maine, two thousand dollars. Kennebunk Merrimac River. Harbor. River. For improving Merrimac River, Massachusetts, five thousand dollars. For repair of harbor at Plymouth, Massachusetts, three thousand five Plymouth Harhundred dollars For the maintenance and annual repairs of the harbor at Provincetown, Massachusetts, one thousand dollars. For improving the harbor of Hyannis, Massachusetts, two thousand five hundred dollars; of which sum five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended in the removal of the wreck at that point. For improving Taunton River, Massachusetts, one thousand dollars. For improving Providence River and Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, sixty thousand dollars. For improving Little Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island and Connecticut, five thousand dollars. For improving Connecticut River below Hartford, Connecticut, including dredging between Hartford and Middletown, ten thousand dollars. For improving harbor at Stonington, Connecticut, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. For improving Thames River, Connecticut, to secure a fourteen-foot channel twelve thousand dollars. For improving harbor at Bridgeport, Connecticut, ten thousand dollars. bor. Provincetown Harbor. Hyannis Harbor. Taunton River. Providence River and Narragansett Bay. Little Narragansett Bay. Connecticut River. Stonington Har Norwalk Har For improving harbor at Norwalk, Connecticut, ten thousand dollars: of which sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars shall be bor. expended on the bar below the bridge. For improving harbor at Port Jefferson, Long Island Sound, New York, five thousand dollars. For improving harbor at New Haven, Connecticut, fifteen thousand dollars. For improving Hudson River, New York, thirty thousand dollars. Port Jefferson Harbor. New Haven Har bor. Hudson River. East River and Hell Gate. Echo Harbor. Plattsburg Har bor. Raritan River. Passaic River. Creek. Burlington Har bor, Vt. Swanton Harbor. Otter Creek. Lewes pier. Newcastle iceharbor. Wilmington Har bor, Del. Schuylkill River. Delaware River. Delaware River. Allegheny River. Cohansey Creek. Baltimore Har bor. Wicomico River. River. Great Kanawha For removing obstructions in East River and Hell Gate, New York, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For improving Echo Harbor, New Rochelle, New York, three thousand dollars. For improving harbor at Plattsburg, New York, dredging, two thousand dollars. For improving Raritan River, New Jersey, sixty thousand dollars. For improving Passaic River, New Jersey, two thousand dollars. For improving harbor at Burlington, Vermont, fifteen thousand dollars. For improving harbor at Swanton, Vermont, six thousand dollars. For constructing pier in Delaware Bay, near Lewes, Delaware, ten thousand five hundred dollars. For piers of ice-harbor at New Castle, Delaware, five thousand five hundred dollars For improving harbor at Wilmington, Delaware, three thousand five five hundred dollars. For improving Schuylkill River, Pennsylvania, twenty-five thousand dollars. For improving Delaware River below Bridesburg, Pennsylvania, fortyfive thousand dollars. For improving Delaware River between Trenton and White Hill, New Jersey, six thousand dollars. For the improvement of the navigation of the Allegheny River from the mouth of French Creek to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, ten thousand dollars For improving Cohansey Creek, New Jersey, four thousand five hundred dollars. For improving harbor at Baltimore, Maryland, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For improving Wicomico River, Maryland, three thousand dollars. For improving James River, Virginia, seventy-five thousand dollars. For improving Appomattox River, Virginia, twenty thousand dollars. For improving Great Kanawha River, West Virginia, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For improving Cape Fear River, North Carolina, one hundred thousand dollars. For improving Breton Bay, Leonardtown, Maryland, four thousand dollars For improving mouth of Nomoni Creek, Virginia, two thousand five hundred dollars. For improving Rappahannock River, Virginia, ten thousand dollars. For improving harbor at Norfolk, Virginia, and its approaches, seventy-five thousand dollars. For improving the harbors and channels at Washington and Georgetown, District of Columbia, fifty thousand dollars; of which sum twenty thousand dollars shall be expended in dredging the channel of the Potomac River between the Long Bridge and the United States Arsenal, Georgetown Har- and thirty thousand dollars shall be expended in Georgetown harbor bor. Blackwater River. and channel; and the whole of said sum of fifty thousand dollars is hereby directed to be so expended as to produce the greatest immediate benefit to navigation and commerce. For improving Blackwater River, Virginia, two thousand five hundred dollars. For improving Neuse River, North Carolina, forty-five thousand dol lars. For improving Hampton River, Virginia, two thousand dollars. For improving French Broad River, North Carolina, five thousand dollars. For improving Pamlico River, North Carolina, three thousand dollars. For improving harbor at Edenton, North Carolina, one thousand dollars. For improving harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, two hundred thousand dollars. For improving harbor at Savannah, Georgia, one hundred thousand dollars. Neuse River Hampton River. Chicka hominy River. French Broad River. Pamlico River. Charleston Harbor, S. C. Savannah Har bor. For improving inside passage between Fernandina and Saint John's, Fernandina and Florida, seven thousand dollars. For improving harbor at Cedar Keys, Florida, including removal of wrecks, fifteen thousand dollars. For improving Choctawhatchee River, Florida and Alabama, five thousand dollars. For improving Alabama River, Alabama, thirty thousand dollars. For improving Chattahoochie, River, Georgia, fifteen thousand dol lars. For improving Flint River, Georgia, seven thousand dollars. For improving Saint Augustin's Creek, Georgia, five thousand dol lars. Saint John's Pas sage. bor. Cedar Keys Hai Choctawhatchee Alabama River. River. River. Flint River. Creek. Warrior and For improving Warrior and Tombigbee Rivers, Alabama and Mississippi, thirty thousand dollars; of which sum ten thousand dollars shall Tombigbee Rivers. be expended on the Tombigbee above Columbus, and twenty thousand dollars on the Warrior and Tombigbee below Columbus. For improving the Apalachicola River, Florida, including the slough Apalachicola connecting the Apalachicola with the Chippola River, five thousand River, etc. dollars. For improving New River from Lead Mines in Wythe County, Virginia, to mouth of Greenbrier, twelve thousand dollars. For improving Pensacola Harbor, Florida, ten thousand dollars For improving harbor at New Orleans, Louisiana, sixty thousand dollars. For deepening channel of Sabine Pass and at Blue Buck Bar, Texas, twenty-five thousand dollars. For improving entrance to Galveston Harbor, Texas, one hundred thousand dollars. For improving Narrows of Sabine River above Orange, Texas, and to deepen the channel at the mouth of the Sabine River, six thousand dollars For improving mouth of Trinity River, Texas, two thousand five hundred dollars. For improving mouth of Neches River, Texas, five thousand dollars. For improving Passo Cavallo Inlet into Matagorda Bay, Texas, twentyfive thousand dollars. New River. Pensacola Har bor. New Orleans Harbor. Sabine Pass. Galveston Har bor. Sabine River. Trinity River. Neches River. Passo Cavallo Inlet. Examination For examinations and surveys of South Pass of the Mississippi River: To ascertain the depth of water and width of channel secured and and surveys of maintained from time to time by James B. Eads at the South Pass of South Pass. the Mississippi River, and to enable the Secretary of War to report during the construction of the work the payments made from time to time, and the probable times of other payments, and to report during the construction of the work all important facts relating to the progress of the same, materials used, and the character and permanency with which the said jetties and auxiliary works are being constructed, as required by act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy 1875, ch. 134, 18 Stat., 463. |