Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-09-04

ated for the service Of the Post Office Department for tn.
year ending the thirteth of june thousand eight
hundred and out Of any moneys in the Trea
sury arising from the of the said Department
conformity to the act of the second Of July thousand
eight hundred and thirysx and for other purposes viz
For transportation Of the mails, four million hun
bred thousand dollars et2
For compensation to postmasters, including the add
uonal compensation authorized by the sixth section Of the
act TO reduce and modify the Of postage approved
third March, one thousand eight hundred and ftyone
| two million and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For compensation to postmasters, being the difference
between the sum of million eight hundred and seven
tyve thousand dollars appropriated for the fiscal year
ending hireth of june thousand eight hundred and
hftytwo and the estimated Of their compensation
for the year. including the additional allowances
thorzed by the sixth section Of the act of third of March,
one thousand eight hundred and ftyone reducing the
rates OF postage hundred and forty thousand
dollars.
For clerks in the Offices of postmasters four hundred
and thirty thousand dollars
For ship steamboat, and way letters forty thousand
dollars.
For wrapping paper forty thousand dollars.
For office furniture for the Offices Of postmasers nine
thousand dollars
For advertising, seventy thousand dollars.
For mail bags, fifty thousand dollars.
For blanks, forty FIVE thousand dollars.
For mail locks keys and stamps ten thousand dollars
For mail depredations and special agents, fortyfve
thousand dollars also twenty-five hundred dollars out Of
hundred and sixtysx dollars and sxtysx cents to the
late Assistant Postmaster General for his services per-
formed by direction of the Postmaster General subsequent
to the first Of April eighteen hundred and one, when
his resignation took effect in the organization of the mail
service in California approved by resolution to
egaze certain contracts for the transportation of the
mails in California and Oregon" approved january the
thirteenth eighteen hundred and fifty two and the resi-
or SO much thereof may be necessary be applied
to settle and defray his expenses.
For miscellaneous items ninety thousand dollars
For postage stamps, twenty thousand dollars.
For the publication Of twenty-five Thousand copies of
the laws and regulations Of the Post Office Department
and for arrears the table of post Offices Thousand
dollars ss3e
transporting the mail by steamboat from the Lake House
to New IBERIA the route six thousand hundred and
sixteen from Donaldsonve to Washington in the State
of Louisiana, seven thousand dollars
Sec. 2 And be further enacted, That the Postmaster
General be and he is hereby authorized whenever he
shall deem it discreet dispense with the route agents
now sent with the mails from New York to California, and
IN lieu thereof to appoint not more than two resident
agents to take charge of the mail service the 18TH
mus of Panama. and to allow said agents for salary and
personal expenses not exceeding three thousand dollars
per year for each of such agents which shall be paid
Of the amount annually appropriated for the transporta
ton of the mails
Sec g. And be further enacted That the salary of the
route agents be and the is hereby increased
thousand dollars per annum.
Sec. A. And b. IT further enacted That the Postmaster
General be and he is hereby authorized if he shall deem
proper to advertise for and establish service upon the
regular mail route between New Orleans and certain Gulf
ports of Florida.
Sec. s. And be a further enacted That the Postmaster
General is authorized to contract with the Ocean Steam
Navigation Company for additional trip the Havre
line, and additional trip the Bremen line until the
expiration of their existing contract receiving and de-
liyering mails at Southampton, Cowes, Plymouth,
the Postmaster General may direct according such
schedule shall be prescribed by the Postmaster Gene
raj in order thereby to maintain through such lines and
the Collins line, regular weekly communication by Ame
rican mail steamers between the United States and the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland but the
compensation for such additional trips shall not exceed
the compensation allowed for each trip under the said
listing contract: And provided further That the Postmas
ter General shall be and he is hereby authorized in his
discretion to negotiate with the for changing
the terminus of the Havre line from Havre to Antwerp in
Belgium, and to make agreement to such change if he
should think proper but the increased compensation
be allowed for such change shall be limited to pro rata
allowance for the increased distance.
Sec 6. And be ii further enacted, That the bridges
the Ohio river at Wheeling in the State of Virginia.
and at Bridgeport in the State Of Ohio abutng Zanes
island said river, hereby declared to be lawful
structures in their present position and elevation, and
shall be held and taken to be, any thing in any law
laws of the United States the contrary
Sec Z. And be further enacted That the said bridges
declared to be and established post roads for the
passage Of the mails Of the United States and that the
Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Company authorized to
have and maintain their said bridges their site
and elevations and the officers and Of all vessels and
boats navigating said river required to regulate the
of their said vessels and boats and Of any pipes
chimneys belonging thereto not to interfere with
the elevation and construction of said bridges.
Approved, August 81, 1852.
TPUBLc AcT-No So.
AN ACT making appropriations for the improvement of
certain harbors and rivers
Be enacted by the Senate and House Of Representatives.
of the United States Of America Congress assembled That
the following Of money be and the hereby
appropriated be paid Of any money in the Trea
der the superintendent Of the Secretary Of War; for the
following purposes, to wit:
For the continuation Of the Delaware breakwaer, thir
ty thousand dollars.
For the construction of harbor on the east side Of
Reedy Island, Port Penn, Delaware, hfyone thousand
and ninety dollars.
For the repairs Of the works at the harbor Of Chester
on the Delaware river, FIVE thousand dollars. IHa
For the removal of Instructions in the Savannah river
at place called the Wrecks and the Of the
navigation of said river, forty thousand dollars.
For continuing the improvement Of the navigation Of
the Hudson river above and below Albany and above
Troy, fifty thousand dollars.
For the improvement of the navigation Of the Mssis
sppi river below the rapids ninety thousand dollars
the Ohio including the repairs Of the dam at Cumber
land Island ninety thousand dollars; the Missouri and
the Arkansas rivers, each forty thousand dollars and
for the construction and repair Of snag boats dredge
boats, dschargng scows and machinery to be used
the Mississippi Ohio Missouri Arkansas, and other
Western rivers hundred and fifty thousand dollars
For the improvement Of the James and Appomatox ri
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