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CHAPTER LXXIII.

An Act in Addition to the Act, intituled, “An Act to establish the Poft-Office and Poft-Roads within the United States."

Sec. I.

E it enacted by the Senate and House

of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congrefs affembled, That the following post-roads be discontinued, namely: from Blue-hill, in Maine, to Penobscot, Frankfort and Belfast; from Bard's-town, in Kentucky, to Nafhville in Tenneffee; from Taunton to Providence; from Bethlehem, by Reading, to Lancafter; from Elkton to Warwick; from Georgetown, to Cheraw-courthoufe; from Bethlehem to Wilkefbarre; from Plymouth to Windfor; from Winton, by the bridge on Bennett's-creek, to R. Mitchell's; from Mecklenburg to Halifax Court-houfe; from Richmond, by New-Caftle, to Aylett's Ware-houfe; from Morgantown, by Lincolntown, to Pinckney Court-houfe; from Springfield, by Northampton, Brattleborough and Charleston, by Windfor, in Vermont, to Hanover.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following be established as poft-roads, namely: from Blue-hill, in Maine, through Caftine, Poft-roads Penobscot, Buckfton, Frankfort and Profpect, to Belfast; from Hallowell, in Maine, to Farmington, on Sandy-river; from Portland, in Maine, by Falmouth, Gorham, Buxton and Standifh, to Limerick; from Berwick, in Maine, through Lebanon, Shapleigh and Parsonfield, to Limerick; from Standifh, by Flint's-town, to Fryburg-academy; from Sandwich, by Fam

worth and Conway, in New-Hampshire, to Poft roads
Fryburg, in Maffachufetts; from Portsmouth established.
to Dover, in New-Hampshire; from Newbu-
ryport to Haverhill; and from Haverhill, by
Kingston, Exeter, Newmarket and Durham,'
to Dover; from Yarmouth, by Dennis, Har-
wich and Chatham, to Truro; from Worcef-
ter, in Maffachusetts, by Peterfham and North-
field, to Brattleborough, in Vermont; from
Newport, in Rhode-Island, through Taunton,
Norton, Mansfield and Sharon, to Boston ;
from Bofton, through Charlestown, Medford,
Wooburn, Billerica, Chelmsford and Tyngs-
borough in Maffachusetts, to Amherst in New-
Hampfhire; from Windfor, in Vermont, by
Royalton, Randolph, Williamfton and Mont-
pellier, to Burlington; from New-Haven, in
Connecticut, by fuch rout as the post-mafter
fhall deem expedient, to Litchfield and Shef-
field, in Maffachusetts; from New-York, by
Whiteplains Bedford, Frederickstown, Dover,
Sharon, Sheffield, Stockbridge, Pittsfield and
Williamfton, to Bennington in Vermont;
from Lanfyngburg in New-York, by Water-
ford, Stillwater, Fort Edward, White-hall-
landing, and Fairhaven, to Rutland, in Ver-
mont; from New-York, to Hackenfack, Pa-
ramus, New-Antrim, thence to Chefter and
Gofhen; from Lanfyngburg, by Salem, Fair-
haven, Vergennes and Bafon-harbour, to
Plattsburg; from Plattsburg to Pliny Moore's
in the town of Champlain; from Schenectada,
by Balltown-Springs and Glen's-bridge, to
Sandy-hill; from Old Fort Schuyler, in New-
York, by Cincinnatus, to Oxford academy,
on the Chenango; from Rome, in the ftate
of New-York, to Rotterdam, on the Oneida
Lake; from Philadelphia, to Tuckerton, in

Poft-roads New-Jerfey; from Bristol, in Pennsylvania, established. to Burlington, in New-Jersey; from Bethle

hem, by Easton, to Wilkefbarre, in Pennfylvánia; from Harrisburg upon the eaft fide of the Sufquehannah river, to Clark's-ferry, at Petersburg, by Miller's-town, Thompson-town, Mifflin-town, Lewis-town, and Huntingdon, to Alexandria; from thence by Center-Furnace and Bellefount, to Milesburg, on the Bald-Eagle river, at the mouth of SpringCreek; from thence by Aaronfburg, Mifflinburg, Lewisburg (Deerfton) and Northumberland, to Sunbury, and from thence down the eaft-fide of the Sufquehannah river, to Harrisburg; from Somerfet, through Connelfville, to Union-town, and from Bedford, in Pennsylvania, the mail fhall be carried through Somerfet, to Greensburg, after the expiration of the prefent contract for carrying the mail; from Baltimore, by Ellicott's lower mills,Montgomery Court-house and Charlefburg, to Leefburg in Virginia; from Morgantown, in Virginia, to Clarksburg, in Harrifon-county; from Leefburg, by Middleburg, in Loudoun-county, by Fauquier Courthoufe, to Culpeper Court-house; from Petersburg, by Suffex Court-house, and Southampton Court-house, to South-Quay; from Richmond, by Hanover-town, to Aylett's Warehoufe; from Todd's-bridge to King and Queen Court-houfe; from Halifax Court-house, in Virginia, by Danville, to Cafwell Courthouse, in North-Carolina; from Newbern to Beaufort and Swansborough, the mail to go alternately; and from Wilmington, in NorthCarolina, by Georgetown to Charleston, in South-Carolina; from Jonesburg, in NorthCarolina, by North-Weft River Bridge, Great

Bridge, and Kempfville, to Norfolk; from Poft Road, Elizabeth city, in North-Carolina, by New- established. Lebanon, to North-West River Bridge; from Morgantown, by Rutherfordton, to Spartan Court-houfe, in South-Carolina, and from Charlotte, by Lincolnton, to Iredell; from Bethania, in North-Carolina, by GrayfonCourt-houfe, to Wythe Court-house, in Virginia; from Mecklenberg Court-house, to return by Lunenberg Court-house and Edmonds's-ftore, to Goldfon's; from Augufta, in Georgia, by Robifon's at the White Ponds and Gillett's mill, to Coofawhatchie, in SouthCarolina; from Moffet's-ftore, in Tenneffee, to Dannville, in Kentucky; from Knoxville, by South-west Point, and fort Blount, to Nafhville; from Winton, by Windfor, to Edenton; from Murfree'fborough, by South-Quay, to Suffolk, in Virginia; from Fayetteville to Pittsburg, in Chatham county; from Nottingham to Lower Marlborough in Maryland; from Benedict to Chaptico, by Charlottehall academy; from Allen's-fresh, in Maryland, by Laidlor's ferry, to Port-Conway, in Virginia; from Waynesborough to Louisville, by Georgetown to Rock-landing, in Georgia; from Kanondaigua, in the state of New-York, to Niagara; from Suffield, in Connecticut, by Northampton, Brattleborough and Charleftown, by Windfor, in Vermont, to Hanover; from Springfield, by Weft Springfield, to Northampton; and that the route of the mail, from Eafton, on the Eastern-Shore of Maryland, to Vienna, fhall be through Newmarket.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the poftmafter-general be authorized to expend, for clerk-hire, a fum not exceeding five hun-. VOL. III. G 3

to postmafter ge

neral for

clerk hire.

Allowance dred dollars, in addition to the fum heretoföre allowed; and that he be authorized to charge the United States with two hundred and feventy-one dollars and fifty-two cents, for the occafional hire of extra-clerks, from the first of January to the thirty-firft of December, one thousand feven hundred and ninetyfix.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That from Acceffaries and after the paffing of this act, every perfon punishable. who fhall procure, aid, advife or affift in the doing or perpetration of any of the crimes, or acts, forbidden to be done or perpetrated by the act, intituled, "an act to establish the poft-office and poft-roads within the United States," fhall be fubject to the fame punishments and penalties as the perfons are subject, who fhall actually do, or perpetrate any of the acts or crimes forbidden by the said act.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That from Compenfa and after the thirty-first day of March, of the present year, instead of the compenfation poft-maf- heretofore allowed by law to the deputy-post

tion to

deputy

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masters, the postmaster-general be hereby authorized to allow to the deputy-postmasters, respectively, fuch commiffion on the monies arifing from the postages of letters and packets, as fhall be adequate to their respective fervices and expenfes : Provided, that the faid commiffion fhall not exceed thirty per cent. on the first hundred dollars collected in one quarter, and twenty-five per cent. on a fum over one hundred, and not more than three hundred dollars; and twenty per cent. on any fum over four hundred and not exceeding two thousand dollars; and eight per cent. on any fum collected, being over two thoufand four