Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1847-06-30

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lty, via county seat Of Winnebago county
Ito Green Bay, in Brown county;
! From Sac Prairie, by Baraboo, to For,
Winnnebago;
From Grafton, by Rubicon, in Wash
lington county, and Hustis Rapids, to Oak
Grove, Dodge county;
From Oak Grove, in Dodge couaty via
Burnett and Chester, to Wampum, Fond
du-Lac county;
From Potosi to Lancaster, in Grant
county;
From Dubuque, Iowa, via Wild's Fer.
~ and Potosi, to Plattyille;
From Green Day, Via Thompson's mills,
to Plover portage.
From Fort Winnebago, via the county
seat Of Winnebago county, to Neenah;
| trom Summit, via Ocanemawac and Hus-
It's RAPIDS, to the county seat Of Dodge
county;
From FAYETTEVILLE, via Pewankie, Lisbon,
Warren, Erie and Wright, to Addison, in
Washington county,
From Janesville, via Fulton aud Cooks
vile, to Rutland, in Dade county;
From Big Foot, via Scion, Antioch, An
lgoiia and Franklin, to Little Fort, Illinois;
From Oak Grove, via Laurel and Ell
hah, in Dodge county, 10 Columbus, in Co.
lumbia county.
OREGON.
From Oregon City, via Fort Vancouver
and Fort Nesqually,to the mouth of Admi-
rality Inlet.
From Oregon City, up the willamette
valley, to the Kalamet river, in the direc.
ton Of San Frisco;
Sec. 2. find be it further enacted, That
the above routes shall 60 into operation on
the first day Of July, eighteen hundred
and forty-seveR, or sooner, should the
funds of the department justify the same !:
Provided, That as soon as responsible
contractor shall offer to transport the mails
over any portion of the routes included in
this bill, for the revenues arising there
from respectively, the Postmaster General
shall have the power forthwith to put them
under contract.
Sec. 8. find be 1T further enacted, That
the Postmaster General be, and he hereby
is, authorized and directed to cause mail
to be transported once a week, and oitener
if he shall think the public interest re-
quires it, from New Orleans, via Galveston,
Passo Gallo, Brazos de St. Iago, to Tam
pico, with return mails, the service to be
performed by contract, or by the use of
public steamers now 10 the service of the
Wor Department in the Gulf of Mexico,
with the consent of the head of that de-
partment; and for this service the sum Of
thirty thousand dollars is hereby appro-
priated.
Sec. 4. find be it further enacted, That
all letters, newspapers, and other packa-
ges, not exceeding in weight one ounce,
directed to any offer, musician or private
of the army of the United States in .Nexi-
CO, or at any post or place on the frontier
of the United States, bordering on Mexico,
shall be conveyed in the mail free Of post
age: Provided, That all letters or other
packets directed to any person in the army
shall contain, a. part of their direction,
the words, "beionging to the army"
SEC. 5. find be ffitriher enacted, Tha.
the two preceding sections shall continue
in force during the present war, and for
three months after the same may be ter
minated, and no longer.
SEC. 6. find be it further enacted, That
the Postmaster General be, and he hereby
is, authorized to contract for transporting
a mail from Charleston, South Carolina, to
Chagres, touching at St. Augustine and
Key West, and also at Havana, in the ISL
and Of Cuba, if deemed expedient, and
across the isthmus Of Panama, and from
thence to Astoria, or the mouth the Co.
lumbia river, touching at Monterey, St.
Francisco, and such other places on the
coast as the Postmaster General may d.
rect; the mail to be conveyed from Charles
ton to Chagres, and from Panama to Asto-
ria, in steamships, and to be transported
each way once every two months, or often
err, as the public interest may require
Provided, that the expenditure for said
services shall not exceed one hundred
thousand dollars per annum.
Sec. 7. find be 1t further enaeted, That
the Postmaster General be, and he is here
by, authorized to establish a post office
and appoint deputy postmaster at Asto-
ria, and such other places on the coast Of
the Pacific, within the territory Of the u
nited States, as the public interest may re-
quire: that all letters conveyed to or from
Chagres shall be charged with twenty
cents postage; and all letters conveyed to
or from Havana shall be subject to twelve
and half cents postage; and letters car
ried to or from Panama shall pay postage
ofthirty cents, and letters to or from AS
toria, or any other place on the Pacific
coast, within the territory Of the United
States, shall pay forty cents postage.
Sec. 8. find be it further enacted, That
any contract made in pursuance of this act
shall provide for the purchase, by the Uni
ted States, of the steamships to be en-
ployed in conveying the mail, at its OPP
ton, agreeably to the provisions of an act,
entitled can act to provide for the trans
portation Of the mail between the United
States and foreign countries, and for other
purposes" approved the third day Of
March, one thousand eight hundred and
forty five: ProUidsd, That the departure
and return of said mail may, at the dis
erection of the Postmaster General, be