New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-30
NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICAN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 80 1871

o eighteen hundred and thirty.six.
7 For inland mail transportation, twelv
|! million three hundred and twenty-nine do
lars.
For pay Of mail messengers, i've hundre
e | and six thousand two hundred and fourtee
r dollars.
For pay Of route agents, seven hundre'
and eighty-six thousand five hundred ant
sixty-nine dollars.
For pay of mail route messengers, fifty
: ! nine thousand four hundred and tour dol
lars.
For pay of local agents, forty-ninc thou
sand and fOrty-fOur dollars.
For pay of railway postOffice clerks, five
hundred and eighty-ive thousand three
hundred and thirty eight dollars.
For pay OF baggage masters in charge Of
through mails, five thousand dollars.
For foreign mail transportation, four hun
dred thousand dollars.
For ship, steamboat, and wav letters, ten
Thousand dollars.
For pay of pOstmasters, five million one
hundred thousand dollars.
For pay of clerks in postoffices, two mil
lion six hundred thousand dollars.
For pay of letter carriers, one million
four hundred thousand dollars.
dollars.
For Irvine, thirty-ive thousand dollars.
For letter balances, two thousand five
hundred dollars.
For pay of blank agents, ten thousand
dOllals.
For Office furniture, two thousand five
hundred dollars.
For advertising, fifty thousand dollars;
Provided, That no part of this sum shall be
paid to any paper published in the District
of Columbia for advertising mail routes
other than those in Virginia and MARYLAND.
For manufacture of adhesive postage
| stamps, one hundred and fifty-nine thousand
| dollars
For manufacture of postage-stamped en-
velopes and newspaper wrappers, four hun
dred and fourteen thousand two hundred
! dollars; Provided, That no envelope as fur
nished by the government shall contain any
hthographing or engraving, and no printing
except printed request to return the letter
to the writer.
For salary of distributing agents and as
sistants, and incidental expenses of agency,
six thousand eight hundred dollars.
For mail depredatiOns and special agents.
one hundred and twenty-five thousand dol
lars.
For mail-bags and mail bag catchers, one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For mail locks and keys, forty thousand
dollars.
For post-marking and canceling stamps
for postOtfices, twelve thousand five hun
dred dollars.
For balances due foreign countries, two
hundred thousand dollars.
For preparing and publishing post-route
maps, twenty thousand dollars.
For rent Of postOffices, two hundred thou
sand dollars.
For fuel for postofices. one hundred thou
sand dollars.
For lights for postoffices, one hundred and
ten thousand dollars.
For stationery and miscellaneous items
for postoffces, forty thousand dollars.
For registered package envelopes, fifteen
thousand dollars.
For official envelopes for use of post
masters, thirty thousand dollars:
For envelopes for return OF dead letters
to writer's, four thousand dollars.
For fees to United States attorneys, clerks
Of courts, and United States narshals, ten
thousand dollars.
For engraving, printing, and binding
hundred dollars. -.
For miscellaneous items, ON thousand
dollars.
That no money appropriated by this act |
shall be applied to the payment Of the al |
legged claim against the United States in
favor Of George Chorpenning, now pending
before the Sixth Auditor Of the Treasury,
or any part thereof.
SEC. =. That the following sums, or SO
much thereof as may be necessary, be, and
the same are hereby. appropriated for the
: ear ending June thirty. eighteen hundred
and seventy-twO, out Ut any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated,
namely:
For steamship service between San Fran
.isco Japan, and China, five hundred thou
and dollars.
For steamship service between the United
states and Brazil, one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars.
For steamship service between San Fran
iscO and the Sandwich Islands, seventy
i've thousand dollars.
SEC. L That if the revenues of the Post
fice Department shall be insufficient to !
meet the appropriations made by this act,
hen the sum OF three million nine hundred
nd sixty-nine thousand three hundred and
ighty-three dollars, or SO much thereof as
nay be necessary, be, and the same is here I
y, appropriated, to be paid out of any
honey in the treasury not otherwise appro-
rated. to supply deficiencies in the rev.
nue. of the POstOtfice Department for the
ear ending June thirty, eighteen hundred !
nd seventy-tWO.
SEC. 4. That all bidders, upon every mail t
'ute, for the transportation Of mails upon a
re same, shall hereafter accompany their t
ids (where they exceed five thousand dol U
rs) with a certified check or draft. paya-
e to the order of the Postmaster General.
some reliable banking house or banking
stitutiOn, which check or draft shall not | !
3 less than five per centum on the amount
at they would receive in any one year
lder such bid. In case any bidder on be-
g awarded any such contract. shall fail to n
tier into good and sufficient bonds to faith 1
lily carry out such contract, such bidder or a
dders shall forfeit the amount SO deposited 4
the United States, for the use Of the Post h
ice Department.; otherwise, such draft or h
eek. SO deposited, shall be returned to the :.
oder to whom it belongs. h
&c. 5. That it shall be unla wfill for the New o.
TT and Cincinnati Bridge Company, or any \
her company. OF person, to proceed in the I.
ection OF the bridge now being Constructed +,
er the Ohio river from the city of Cincn- h,
II, Ohio, to the city Of Newport, Ken r.
cky. and the approaches thereto, unless 4,
e said bridge shall be SO constructed that a,
channel span of four hundred feet, as 81
" located, shall have under said span q "
ar Roadway, at low water, Of one hun ot
ed ieet below any point Of said channel or
m, and in such case no draw shall be re- ~,
lred in said bridge; all the other spans of an
d bridge, which cover the Ohio river, to of
' water mark, shall have a clear head e1
y OF not less than seventy feet above s;1
' water mark, and the other spans of the in
bridge, extending to each shore, may nr
made OF lesss elevation than seventy feet fe
,ve low water mark, to accommodate no
ular grade for the approaches to said n,
dge. And when the foregoing require or
nts shall have been complied with by the tn
1 Newport and Cincinnati Bridge Com
~, the location of said bridge, its struc-
es and approaches, shall thereupon he
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