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States, or now duly registered by a citizen or citizens of the United States
(including as | citizens any corporation created under the laws of
the United States or any of the States thereof), between ports of the
United States and foreign ports on the routes, at the rates of speed and
for the amounts prescribed in section six of thisact. All the provisions
of the act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled
“An act to provide for ocean mail service between the United States
and foreign ports, and to promote commerce,” are hereby made applicable
 in all respects to the services provided for in section six of this
act: Provided, That the specific rates of compensation provided for in
section five of said act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninetyone,
 shall not apply to the services provided for in section six of this act.
SEC. 6. That as soon as may be practicable, the Postmaster-General
shall establish in the manner prescribed in section five the following
ocean mail services:
First. From a port of the Atlantic coast of the United States to
Brazil, on steamships of the United States of not less than fourteen
knots speed, for a monthly service at a maximum compensation not
exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year, or for a fortnightly
 service at a maximum compensation not exceeding three hunred
 thousand dollars a year.
Second. From a port of the Atlantic coast of the United States to
Uruguay and Argentina, on steamships of the United States of not
less ‘than fourteen knots speed, for a monthly service at a maximum
Boe pensation not exceeding one hundred and eighty-seven thousand
live hundred dollars a year, or for a Sonja gly service at a maximum
Conpensation not exceeding three hundred and seventy-five thousand
dollars a year.
. Third. "From a port of the Atlantic coast of the United States to
South Africa, on steamships of the United States of not less than twelve
knots speed, for a monthly service at a maximum compensation not
€Xceeding one hundred and eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars
{ year, or for a fortnightly service at a maximum compensation not
®xceeding three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars a year.
Fourth. From a port of the United States on the Gulf of Mexico to
Brazil, on steamships of the United States of notless than twelve knots
peed, for a monthly service at a maximum compensation not exceedng
 one hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars a year,
or for a fortnightly service at a maximum compensation not exceeding
two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars a year.
Fifth. From a port of the United States on the Gulf of Mexico to
Cuba, on steamships of the United States of not less than fourteen
knots speed, for a semiweekly service at a maximum compensation
not exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars a year.
Sixth. From a port of the United States on the Gulf of Mexico to
Central America, on steamships of the United States of not less than
twelve knots speed, for a weekly service at a maximum compensation
not exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars a year.
Seventh. From a port of the United States on the Gulf of Mexico
to Mexico, on steamships of the United States of not less than twelve
knots speed, for a weekly service at a maximum compensation not
eXeeeding fifty thousand dollars a vear.

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