The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1853-04-27

FROM new bOnuOn, In Henry county
via Pleasant Grove, Dodgeville, yellow
Springs, and Kossu.h. to Hickory Point
in Des Mones county.
From Fort Madison, via Denmark
Parrish. Danvlle. Pleasant Grove town.
ship, in Des Moines county, to Rising
Sun, Louisa county.
From Independence to Cedar Falls.
From Boonsboro' to Dakotah.
From Monona, via Hardin and Ma
kee, to Lansing
From Fort Des Moines, via Lewis, to
Council Bluff.
From Hawk Eye, via Black Eye, to
Muscatine
From Muscatine to Columbus City.
From Delhi, via Quasqueton, to Fort
Dcs Moincs.
From Delhi, via Independence, to Ce-
dar Rapids.
From Delhi, via Colcsburgh, to Gar
navilc.
From Delhi, via Hartwick and Erin.
to Quasqueton.
From Iowa City, via Old Mans
Creek and Millersburgh. to Montezuma.
From Sabula, via Maquokcta and
Thos Green's in Jones county, to Ana
mosa.
From Dubuque, via Benton and
Shutsburgh to Janesville, Wisconsin.
From Dubbuqe to Dyersville.
IN WISCONSIN.
From Lancaster, via Bcetown and
lAtt -, ~
From Highland, via Richland City
and Sextonvillc, to Richland Centre, in
Rlchland county.
From Potosi via Rockville, Ellenbo.
ro', Clifton, Mffln, and Linden, to Min
oral Point. in Iowa county
From Warsaw TO Shawno. on Wolfe
river.
From Prairie du Chen, via Lacosse,
Lcwiss Mills, Douglass's Mills, Eau
Gallet's Mills, Rush River Settlement.
Prescott, and Poiut Douglass, to Saint
Paurs. Minnesota Territory.
From Cassvillc, via Beertown. Lau
caster, New California, and Mifflin, to
Mineral Point, in Iowa county.
From La Crosse, in the county of La
Crosse, to Onalaska.
From Prairie du Chen. via Boyds
town, RichIand Creek. and Richmond
to Muscoda.
From Portage City, in Columbia
county, via Bower Creek, Crooked Lake
Bucna Vista. and Plover, to Stcvenss
Point, in Portage county
IN OREGON TERRITORY.
From Salem, via Doke's Ferry, to
Lafayette
The mail route from Panama to AS
toria is hereby extended to Fort Stila-
COON and Olympias. on Puget's Sound.
Sec, 2. And be it further enacted.
That the Postmaster General be author
lied and required to establish a mail be.
tween cambridge and Apalachcola
See. 3. And be it further enacted,
That all railroads and parts of railroads
which are now or hereafter may be in
operation, be, and the same are hereby.
declared to be post roads and the Post
master General may contract for carry
ing the mails thereon according to ex-
listing laws.
Sec. t. And be it further enacted,
That the Auditor of the Treasury for
the Post Office Department be, and he
is hereby, authorized to allow the post
master at Richmond, Virginia, and
the postmaster at Cleveland, Ohio,
the same commission on all mailable
matter distributed at their respective
offices, as is allowed by law to tie post.
masters of the other distributing Of
fees such allowance to date from the
first day of June, one thousand eight
hundred and fifty one.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted,
That hereafter, as the Office of Assis-
tant Postmaster General, or either of
them, shall be vacated, the appoint
ment Of his successor shall be made
by the President of the United States,
by and with the advice and consent Of
the Senate.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted,
That from and after the first of April
next, in place of the compensation now
allowed deputy postmasters, the Post
master General be, and is hereby, au-
thorized to allow them commissions at
the following rates, on the postage col.
lected at their respective Offices, in
each quarter, viz on any sum not ex.
ceeding one hundred dollars, fifty per
cent, but any postmaster at whose of.
hce the mail is to arrive regularly be.
tween the hours of nine o'clock at
night and five o'clock in the morning,
may be allowed sixty per cent, on the
first hundred dollars on every sum
over and above one hundred dollars,
but not exceeding four hundred dol.
lars, forty per cent; on every sum
over and above four hundred dollars,
but not exceeding twenty four hundred
dollars, thirty five per sent; on every
sum exceeding twenty four hundred
dollars. fifteen per cent.
And on the amount of hostages on
letters and packages received at dis
tributing Office for distribution, the
postmaster at such distributing office
may be allowed ten per cent. Every
postmaster whose compensation shall
not exceed five hundred dollars in one
quarter, shall be allowed one cent for
every free letter delivered out of his
Office, excepting such as are for the
postmaster himself. But the special
allowance now made by law to the