[House Bill, No. 124.] 
 
 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, May 26, 1864.— Read first 
 xiid second times, made the spcckl order after appropriation bill, 
 and ordered to be printed. 
 
 [By Mr. Lyon, from the Committee of Ways and Means.] 
 
 To he entitled An Act making appropriations for the postal service 
 
 of the Confederate States, for the year 1862 and IsRs. 
 
 I Whereas, in the adminisiraiion n|" the afliiirs ol the Post-Oflice 
 
 rl Depiirtiiienl, iu the yo.ir IHfJ'i ;m.j 18<).'i. oiun-ni expenses for mail 
 
 3 service were met hy driuls on postma.ster^. lor accruing postage 
 
 4 and revenue under reguhitions providing l"..i subsequent adjust- 
 
 5 ment of such transactions at llie Trensurv ; 
 
 6 And wheiea.s, it appears that estiujutes were suhuiitted from time 
 
 7 to time hy the Postmaster General, for appropriations by Congress, 
 
 8 of the revenues of the Department towards tbe necessary expenses 
 
 9 thereof but from some cause certain appropriations estimated for 
 10 in 1802 and 1863 were omitted. To remedy this omi.ssion — 
 
 1 Section I . The Congress of the Confederate States of America do 
 
 2 enact, That the following sums be. and the same are herehv ap- 
 
 3 propriatcd out of any money in the Treasury, being the revenues , 
 
 4 arisnig from postages, sales of postage stamps and emoluments 
 
2 
 
 5 from box rents tor the \t,>r^ eighteen hundred and sixty-two and 
 
 6 eighteen hundred nnd sixty-three, no appropriations huvinj; been 
 
 7 heretofore made for those ye«r«-. viz: 
 
 8 For transportation ol the mails, compensation of postmasters , 
 
 9 and clerks, ship, steamboat and way letters, advertising. m«il bags, 
 
 10 office furniture, l)lanks and |)rinting, wrapping paper, mail locks, 
 
 11 keys and stamps, mail depredations and special agents, j:)ostage 
 
 12 stamps and miscellaneous payments, lor the year ending June 30th. 
 
 13 1862, two hundred and seventy-six thcftisand three luuidred and 
 
 14 fifty-five dollars and twenty-three cents, ($270,355 23.)' 
 
 15 For transportation of the mails, compensation of postmasters 
 
 16 and clerks, ship, steamboat and way letters, advertising, mail bags, 
 
 17 office furniture, blanks and printing, wrapping .paper, maif locks, 
 
 18 keys and stamps, mail depredations and special agents, postage 
 
 19 stamps and miscellaneous payments for the year ending June SOtti, 
 
 20 1863, two million seven hundred and thirty-seven thousand three 
 
 21 hundred and two dollars and thirty-cents. (.12,737,302 30.)