Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-02-11
lumbia aud the inquiry into the slavery
question in the District of Columbia.
The question was laid on the table.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
NEW POST OFFICE LAW.

Inc question was laid on the table.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
NEW POST OFFICE LAW.
MIR CoNNoR, from the committee on
the post office and post roads, reported a
bill to change the organization of the post
office department, and to provide more eff
fectually for the accounts thereof.
This bill, which consists of thirty seven
sections, proposes that the revenues arts
ing III the post office department., and all
debts due to the same, shall, when collect
ed, be paid, under the direction of the
postmaster general, into the treasury of
the United States; that estimates ofthe a.
mounts necessary for the service of the
department shall be laid before Congress
annually, under the several heads of com
pcnsatlon OF postmasters; transportation of
the mails shi p, Steamboat, and way letters;
wrapping paper: office furniture; adyer-
Using; mail bags; blanks; mail locks; keys
and stamps: mail depredations I'D special
agents; clerks &c. for offices; and miscel-
laneous, and that annual accounts of the
expenditures under these several heads
should be also laid before Congress; that
the appropriations for the service of the
post office department, to be made annual
ly by Congress, shall be disbursed by the
treasurer out of the moneys paid INTO the
treasury to the credit ofthe said appropri-
atom upon the warrants of the postmaster
general, registered and countersigned as
! provided by this bill, and EXPRESSING on
their faces the head of appropriation to
which they should be charged; that the
accounts arising in the Post Office be au-
dled by an Auditor of the Post Office IA
new officer with an appeal to the Comp
tr0Iler oft Treasury: that duplicates of
an contracts tor carrying the mail shall be
lodged with this new officer within ninety
days after they arc made, and he shall also
have delivered to him, upon the DEATH
resignation, or removal of any postmaster,
the bond Of office Of said postmaster, &c.:
that there shall be employed by the Post
master General third Assistant Post
master General, one Chief Clerk, three
Principal Clerks, and thirtv-three other
Clerks, one Messenger, and two Assist
ant Messengers, and, in the office of the
Auditor Of the Post Office Department,
Ole Chief Clerk, four Principal Clerks
and thirty lght other Clerks, one Nesscn-
ger, and one Assistant Messenger. The
Oil contains many provisions for regulo-
ting contracts, guarding them from abuse,
and making them effective. 1t proposes.
also, to inhibit the sending of any bound
books, or any article Of wood, metal, min
eral, or glass, by mail, and to forbid the
franking of packages consisting of any
other substance than paper.l
The bill was twice read & committed.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 20
The SENATE did not sit do-day-
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
LAST YEARS FORTIFICATION
BILL.
The House resumed the consideration
OF the following resolution, heretofore Of
tered by Mr. J. @. ADAMS.
ReS0lred That so much of the MESSAGE
OF the President of the United States to
Congress at the commencement of the
present session as relates to the failure, at
the last session OF Congress, ofthc bill con-
aiming the ordinary appropriations for
Notifications, lie referred to a select COM
mittcc, with instructions TO inquire into,
and report to the House the causes and
circumstances ofthe failure ofthc bill