New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-06

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| For advertising, fifty thousand dollars;
Provided, That no part of this sum shall be
| maid 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 fftY-nine thousand
| dollars.
For manufacture of postagestamped en-
| velopes and newspaper wrappers, four hum
dred and fourteen thousand two hundred
dollars: Provided, That no envelope as fur
nished by the government shall contain any
| lithographing 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 mailbag catchers, one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For mail locks and keys, forty thousand
dollars.
for postoffices, 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 postofices, two hundred thou
sand dollars
For fuel for poatoaces. one hundred thou
sand dollars.
For lights for postofices, one hundred and
ten thousand dollars.
For stationery and miscellaneous items
for postotfices, forty thousand dollars.
For registered package envelopes, fifteen
thousand dollars.
For official envelopes for use of post
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For envelopes for return OF dead letters
| to writers, four thousand dollars.
For fees to United States attorneys, clerks
| of courts and United States marshals, ten
| thousand dollars.
For engraving, printing, and binding
| drafts and warrants, three thousand five
| hundred dollars. :,
For miscellaneous items, one 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. 3 That the following sums, or so
much thereof as may be necessary, be, and
| the same are hereby, appropriated for the
| wear ending June thirty, eighteen hundred
| and seventy-two, out of\any money in the
| treasury not otherwise appropriated,
|
| namely:
For steamship service between San Fran
| cisco, Japan, and China, five hundred thou
| sand dollars.
| For steamship service between the United
| States and Brazil, one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars.
| For steamship service between San Fran
| cisco and the Sandwich Islands, seventy
| five thousand dollars.
| SEC. 8. That if the revenues of the Post
Office Department shall be insufficient to
meet the appropriations made by this act,
| then the sum of three million nine hundred
and sixty-nine thousand three hundred and
| eighty-three dollars, or so much thereof as
| may be necessary be, and the same is here
| by, appropriated, to be paid out of any
| money in the treasury not otherwise appro-
| priated. to supply deficiencies in the rev.
| enue of the Postofice Department for the
| year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred
| and serenty-two.
SEC. 4. That all bidders, upon every mail
route for the transportation OF mails upon
| the same, shall hereafter accompany their
| bids where they exceed five thousand dol
| lars) with a certified check or draft, paya-
| BILE to the order of the Postmaster General,
| of some reliable banking house or banking
| institution, which check or draft shall not
| be less than five per centum on the amount
| that they would received in any one year
under such bid. In case any bidder. on be-
ing awarded any such contract, shall fall TO
| enter into good and sufficient bonds to faith
| fully carry out such contract, such bidder or
| bidders shall forfeit the amount so deposited
| to the United States, for the use of the Post
| Office Department: otherwise, such draft or
check, SO deposited, shall be returned to the
| bidder to whom it belongs.
SEC. 5. That it shall be unlawful for the New
port and Cincinnati Bridge Company, or any
nrh ar. nr
| erection of the bridge now being constructed
! over the Ohio river from the city of Cincin-
| natl, Ohio, TO 1.-THE city OF Newport, Ken
| lucky. and the approaches thereto, unless
| the said bridge shall be so constructed that
the channel span Of four hundred feet, as
now located, shall have under said span
clear Roadway, at low water, of one hun
| bred feet below any point OF said channel
| span, and in such case no draw shall be re-
| quired in said bridge; all the other spans OF
| said bridge, which cover the Ohio river, to
| low water mark, shall have clear head
| way of not less than seventy feet above
| low water mark, and the other spans of the
| said bridge, extending to each shore, may
| be made of lesss elevation than seventy feet
! above low water mark, to accommodate
regular grade for the approaches to said
! bridge. And when the foregoing require
ments shall have been complied with by the
| said Newport and Cincinnati Bridge Com.
pany, the location of said bridge, its struc-
! lures and approaches, shall thereupon be
deemed TO be legalized, and declared to
| be lawful structures, and shall be recOg-
nized and known as post route. The
| plans for changes in such bridge, made ne
| cessary by this act, shall be submitted by
said company to the Secretary of War for
| his approval. And, in the event OF the
| Bridge Company making the changes pro-,
| vided for In this act, it shall be lawful Tor
the said company, after they shall have
made the changes in said bridge, and the
| approaches thereto, as herein provided, to
| file their bill in equity against the United
| States in the circuit court of the United
! States for the southern district of Ohio, and
| full jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon
said court to determine: first, whether the
bridge, according to the plans on which 1T
has progressed at the passage OF this act,
has been constructed so as substantially to
comply with the provisions of law relating
| thereto; and, second, the liability. OF the
| United States, if any there be, to the said
company by reason of the changes by this
act required to be made; and if the sa1d
court shall determine that the United
States is SO liable, and that said bridge was
| so being built, then the said court shall
| further ascertain and determine the amount
of the actual and necessary cost and ex-
penditures reasonably required to be IN
CURED in making the changes in the
| said HID aahn q