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Public Law 46–48
to provide for a deficiency in the appropriations for the transportation of the mails on Star routes for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes.
Approved April 7, 1880
Statutory text
An Act
to provide for a deficiency in the appropriations for the transportation of the mails on Star routes for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the sum of eleven hundred thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary', be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to meet the expenses of inland mail transportation on star routes for the remainder of the current fiscal year. During FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. H. Cn. 48, 49. 18S0. the remainder of the current fiscal year no further expediting of service on any postal star route shall be made.
Sec. 2.
That the further sum of one hundred thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated as aforesaid to enable the Postmaster
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General to place new service as authorized by law: Provided, That the Postmaster General shall not hereafter have the power to expedite the service under any contract either now existing or hereafter given to a rate of pay exceeding fifty per centum upon the contract as originally let.
Sec. 3.
That the sum of fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated as aforesaid, for the public printing including the cost of printing the Congressional Record, it being a part of the deficiency for the current fiscal year.
Sec. 4.
Nothing in this act contained shall be deemed or construed to affect the validity or legality of the acts or omission of any officer of the United States, or to affect any proceeding therefor.
Approved, April 7, 1880.