The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-03-07

from Auburn 10 South Lans e in the State Of New York
TO be released from their respective contracts and In his
discretion to release either or both OF them theefrom
SBc Ind Be further enacted That the eighth section
Of the act of the eighteenth OF August eighteen hundred
aud fifty six entitled "An act making appropriations for
the service OF the Post Office Department & be construed
as mandatory and the Postmaster General be- and be
hereby IT, required to pay 10 the said Gddings the sum Of
thirty three thousand and i've hundred dollars per
In lieu OF the contract pay, mail route number twelve
thousand nine hundred directed by sad section deduct
ing pa menis heretofore made
SEC 10 Ind be further enacted That the Postmaster
General be- and be Is hereby authorized 10 contract for the
of the entire letter mail from such point on the
Mississippi river the contractors may select to San
Francisco in The State OF California for six years at
not exc eiing three hundred thousand dollars per annum
for semi monthly four hundred and fifty thousand dollars
for weekly or six hundred thousand dollars for semi
weekly service to be performed semi-mon'hyi weekly
sem!-weeky, at the option Of the Postmaster densFsl
SEC IL lind be further enacted That the contract
shall require the service TO be performed with good four
horse coachfs spring wagons suitable for the convey
of passengers as well as the saey and security Of
the malls
SIC ~ And be further enacted That the contractors
shall have the right OF presumption to three hundred and
twenty Of any land not then dsposed OF or reserved
at each point necessary for station not to be than
ten miles from each other aud provided that mineral
land shall be thus pre-empted
SEC 10 And be further enacted, That the said service
shall be performed within twenty days for each "trip;
aud that before entering into such contract the Postmaster
General shall be satisfied Of the ability and disposition
the parties bona de and in good faith to perform the said
the performance of the same the service to commence With
in twelve months after the signing of the contract
SEC. IA And be further enacted That the Postmaster
General of the United States be- and be hereby is author.
lied and directed accept the lowest bid offered and
record provided the shall not exceed twenty
three thousand dollars year. for weekly services to
vey the United States mails in good and sufficient steamer
or steamers under the advertisement of the Postmaster
General OF January nineteen eighteen hundred and fifty
FIVE for proposals for conveying the United States mails
on Puges Sound Washington Territory and to contract
with the bidders thereof 10 put into INN date operation
the said service Pugets Sound Washington Territory
commencing Olympia and supplying Steilacoom, Seat
tie Port Madison, Port Gamble Port Ludlow Port Town
send Penn's Cove Belngham Bay, (Whacorn, New Dun
geness and such other places said route "a the Pest
General may direct said service to be paid for
of any money 10 the treasury not otherwise appropriated
Provided That the raid service shall be performed in FIRST
class steamboats, under the eighth section OF the act
prov cd March third eighteen hundred and fortyfye.
SIC Is And be further enacted, That the Secretary Of
the Treasury be directed to pay 10 George Whitman the
sum of ten thousand hundred dollars being the
of draft issued in bis favor by the Postmaster General
on the seventh of August eighteen hundred and thirty
eight upon the postmaster at New Orleans in payment
services rendered by said Whitman mail contractor less
two thousand dollars paid thereon, which draft was moi
satisfied by the drawer
81 Approved March 3, 1857