The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-05-12
[oFFICIAL.I
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
G0FEICIAL.
PIsssd at tie Third SESSION ofthe F6rtieti
Congress.


An Act making appropriations for the service
Of the Post Office Department. during the fl cal
year ending June thirt.th, eighteen hundred
Be it enacte by the Senate and House Of Re-
representatives. OF the United Stat. Of America in
Congress assembled, That the following sums be-
and the same are hereby, appropriated for the
service of the Post Office Department for the
year ending June thirtieth. eighteen hundred
and seventy, ont Of any moneys in the treasury,
arisin- from the revenue. Of the tad depar' m-nt
10 Conformity 10 the act of the second Of July -,
eighteen tuufref and thirty six:
For inland mai, transportation, including pay of
Tonte agents. postal clerks, and mail -engers,
thirteen million tn rty-seven thousand six hun
dr-d and fifty three dollars Provided, That no
part Of said sum shall lie paid for infant trans
portation btween Fort Abercrombie and Helena
For f"reien mail tran portation, four hundred
And fifty thousand dollars.
For ship, steamboat and way letters eight
thousand dollars.
For compensation to postmasters, four milf On
Ave hundred and fcrty-six thousand dollars.
For clerks for post Offices, two million dollars
For payments 10 letter carriers one million dol
For wrapping paper. fl fly tn usand dollars.
For Irvine. twenty tn usand dollars
For letler bal noes, four thousand dollars.
For compensation to blank agents and assist
ants. eight Thousand dollars.
For Office furniture. two thousand five hundred
dollars
For advertising. forty th,usard dollars Pro-
vided that part OF this sum shall lie paid To- any
papers published in the District of c lunba for
adverti-'ng mail routes, except i'll Virginia and
Maryland.
For postage stamps and stamped envelopes, five
hundred Thousand dollars.
For detecting and preventing mail depredatOns
and for special agents. one hundred thous md dol
lars and DO greater sum shall be paid special
agents than il hereby provided.
For matt -bags ard mailbag Catchers one hun
dred and twenty Thousand dollars
For nail-locks, keys. and stamps thirty seven
thousand dollars.
for miscellaneous payment, including pay
ment Of balances to foreign countries, eight hun
dred and seventy five thousand dollars.
For preparing aud publishing post-route maps,
sixteen thou and dollars.
Fer r-trsusfer money order account. being
money transferred by pC~tmssters and dePosIted
IN the treasury as postage receipts, one million
dollars.
SIC =. And be it further enacted, That the fol-
lowing SUMS, or SO much thereof As may be nee
essary, be, and the sane are hereby, appTop lated
for the year ending June rhrtIeth eighteen
hundred and seventy, out of any IN iney in the
treasury Mt otherwise Appropriated, viz:
For steamship service between San Francisco,
Japan, and China, five hundred thous and dollars.
FOR steamphip service between the United
States and Brazil, one hundred and ri y thousand
dollars
For steamship service between San Francisco
and the sandwich Islands, sevnty-fve thousand
dollars.
For supplying deficiency in the revenues Of the
Pos. Once department for the fiscal year ending
June thrti.th. eighteen hundred and seventy. five
million seven hundred and forty thousand dollars.
Approved. March ), ls69.
rPublic-No. Al
An Act to authorize the transfer Of lands granted
to the Union Pacific Railway Company, eastern
division, between Denver and the point OF its
connection with the Union. Pacific railroad, t.
the Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Com
psny. and TO expedite the completion of rail
roads TO Denver in the Territory Of Colorado.
Re / I'D hg he fe nd of n
reSentatves of the United States of America in
Congress assembled That the Union Pacific Rail
way Company. eastern dIvi-iOn, be, and II hereby
s, auth, riZed TO contract with the Denver Pacific
Railway and Telegraph Company, a corporation
existing under the laws of the Territory Of Cole
RADIO, for the construction operation. and maintc-
nance OF that part of its line Of raj DAD and tee-
graph between Denver City and Its point 81 CON
uection with the Union Pacific railroad. which
point shall be al CHEYENNE. and TO adopt the road
bed al eady graded by said Denver Pacific Rail
way and Telegraph Company said line, AID to
grant to said Denver Pacific Railway and Tee- |
graph Company the perpetual use Of its right Of
way and depot grounds. and to transfer to it all the
rights and privileges, subject to all the obliga-
tons pertaining to said part Of its line
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the
-aid Uni n Pacific Railway Company, eastern di- |
vision. shall extend its railroad and telegraph to
connectin at the city Of Denver, 20 as to fnm
with that part IF its line herein authorized TO be
nsruc' ed operated, and maintained by the |
Denver Pac.f; Railway and Telegraph Company, |
= continuous line of railroad and telegraph from |
Kansas City, hy way OF Denver, to Cheyenne. |
And all the provisions of law for the operation |
If the Union Pacific railroad, its branches and |
connections, as continuous line, without dis |
elimination, shall apply the same if the read |
from Denver TO Cheyenne had beef constructed by |
the said Union Pacific Railway Company, eastern I
division but nothing herein shall authorize the |
raid eastern divis ion company 10 opelae the road
or fix the rates Of tarin for the Denver Pacific |
Railway and Telegraph Company.
SEC. 3. And be il further enacted, That SAID |
companies hereby au' horzeh to mortgage |
their respective portions If said road, as herein |
defined, for amount not exceeding thirty-two
Thousand dollars per mile, to enable them res
peciively to borrow money TO construct the same
and that each Of said companies shall receive pat
-uts to the alternate sections Of land along their
respective lines of road, herein defiEed, in
like manner and within the same limits as is pro-
vijed by Jaw in the case If lands granted 10 the
Omitted Pacific Railway Company, eastern division:
Provided, That neither of the companies herein |
hsfore mentioned shall lie entitled to subsidy
In United states bonds under the Provisions Of
ihis act.