Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-10-04

/ From Lewisyille, Lafayette county, to Minden, 10
Claiborne parish, Louisiana.
From Arkadelphia to Clingman's, Arkansas.
From Helena, in Arkansas, to Pamela, In Pamela
coonty, Mississippiv Askew's Blutis,oncea week
g8 LOUISIANA. -
From New River post office, on the east bank Of
the Mississippi river, to Galveston, in said state.
Fsom Winsborough, in the parish Of Franklin, to
Monroe, in the parish of Ouachita.
From Natchitoches, along the bank of Red river,
to Shreveport.
! From Plaquemne to Johnson's store,on the Bayou
Grosstae, by the way of Point Coupee, in Louisiana
! From Harrisonburg, through what is called the
Funebree and Riser settlements, to Columbia.
From Columbia, by Thomas Meredith,s Anderson,
| and Perkins, in Jenkins settlement, to Vernon.
From Vernon, by Indian Village and Coon's, to
| Monroe.
NEW YORK
| From Lockport, via Tonewanda Rapids, TO Cla-
From Elizabethtown, Essex county,New York,via
keene post Office Osgood's Harrietstown, ST. Amands
TO Merrisyille post Office, in Franklin county, New
York. s-ss@ssss-~t 50.
From Fort covington, Franklin county, New York,
to Dickinson, by way Of MORA, in the same county.
WISCONSIN.
For mailro from Prairie du Chen, in Wis.
consn, via Round Prairie, Graham's Mills, the Falls
OF Black rver the Mouth of Oear river, the Middle
Mills ON the Mcnomonie river, the mouth of William
river and Osceola, to the Falls Of st. Croix.
ALABAMA.
From Wilderness post office, via Carleton's store,
to Motifs post office.
From Troy, in Pike county, Alabama, via Well
borne or Indigo Head, to Geneva, in said state.
From Benton, in Lowndes county, Alabama, via
Joseph Walkers, TO Warrenton, in Dallas county.
SEC. q And be it Further enacted, That the afore-
SAID routes shall be advertised for contracts for the
service thereon, at the next general letting in the
year eighteen hundred and forty-nlne and the SER
wee to commence as soon thereafter practicable:
Pfocided, That as soon a responsible contractor
shall offer to transport the mails over any portion of
the routes included in this bills the Postmaster Gen.
era shall have the power forthwith to put them under
contract: Provided, That nothing In this act con-
tanned shall be SO construed as to express any opn-
ION as to the true boundary Of any State or Territory
named therein.
SEC. 3. And be further enacted, That the Postmas-
ter General be. and he is hereby, authorized to esta
tablish post Offices and appoint deputy postmasters
at San Diego, Monterey, and San Francisco and such
other places the coast Of the Pacific, in California;
within the territory of the United States. and to make
such temporary arrangements for the transportation
OF the mail ID SAID territory, the public interest
may requires and that all letters conveyed to from
any of the above mentioned places on the Pacific,
from or to any place on the Atlantic coast, shall be
charsedwth forty cents postage that all letters
veyed from one to any other of the said places on
the Pacific shall pay twelve and hall cents postage;
and the Postmaster General is authorized to apply
any moneys received on account of hostages afore-
SAD 10 the payments to be made on the contract for
the transportation of the mails in the Pacific ocean
and the Postmaster General is further authorized
employ not exceeding two agents in making arrange
nents for the establishment of post offices, and for
the transmission, receipt and conveyance of letters
in Oregon and California; at annual compens ation
not exceeding that Of the principal clerks in the Post
Office Department.
Approved August IA, 1s4S.