New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-17

| eighteen hundred ana tnlrty-slX.
For inland mail transportation, twelv.
million three hundred and twenty-nine dol
lars.
For pay of mail messengers, five hundred
and six thousand two hundred and fourteen
dollars.
For nav of route agents, seven hundred
| and eiahty-six thousand five hundred and
sixty-nine dollars.
| For pay of mail route messengers, fifty.
nine thousand four hundred and tour dol.
lars.
! For paw of local agents, forty-ninc thou
sand and forty -four dollars.
For pay Of railway postotiice clerks, five
| hundred and eighty-hve thousand three
hundred and rhirty-eight dollars.
| For pay of baggage masters in charge of
through mails, FIVE thousand dollars.
| For foreign mail transportation, four hun
dred thousand dollars.
| Fer ship, steamboat and way letters, ten
thousand dollars.
| For pay Of pOstmasters, nVe million one
hundred thousand dollars.
For nav of clerks in postOthces, two mil
lion six hundred thousand dollars.
! For paw of letter carriers, one million
| four hundred thousand dollars.
For wrapping paper. thirty, five thousand
| dollars.
For Irvine, thirty-ive thousand dollars.
| cnr letIeT UdldACCss wv tAouSduu uNt
hundred dollars.
For nav of blank agents. ten thousand
| dollars.
For Office furniture, two thousand five
| hundred dollars.
For advertising, fifty thousand dollars;
| Provided, That no part 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.
of odd
stamps, one hundred and t1ty-nine thousand
| dollars.
| For manufacture of pOstage-stamped en-
| velopes and newspaper wrappers four hun
| bred and fourteen thousand two hundred
dollars: Provided, That no envelope as fur
| risned bv the government shall contain any
| Lthographing or engraving, and no printing
| except printed request TO return the letter
| to the writer.
For salary of distributing agents and as
| sistarts, 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 nail-bags and mailbag catchers, one
| hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
! For mail locks and keys, forty thousand
! dollars.
For post-marking and canceling stamps
\
bred dollars.
! For balances due foreign countries, two
| hundred thousand dollars
For preparing and publishing pOst-route
maps. twenty thousand dollars
| For rent Of pos.otfces, two hundred thou
| sand dollars.
For fuel for posto1fces, one hundred thou
| sand dollars.
For lights for posto1ices. one hundred and
| ten thousand dollars.
For stationery and miscellaneous items
! for postottices, forty thousand dollars.
For registered package envelopes, fifteen
| housand dollars.
For official envelopes tor use of post
masters. thirty thousand dollars:
For envelopes 1or 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 i've
| 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 III
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
| me same are hereby. appropriated for the
| year 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. 3. 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
eigarv-three dollars or SO much thereof as
may be necessary he: 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 Postotice Department for the
year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred
ard seventv-twO.
SEC. /. That all bidders. Upon every mall
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-
bic 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 receive in any one year
under such bid. In case any bidder. on be-
ing awarded any such contract. shall tau 10
enter into good and sufficient bonds to faith
fully carry ont 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. ). That it shall be unlawful for the New
port and Cincinnati Bridge Company, or any
other company. or person. to proceed IN the
erection OF the bridge now being constructed
over the Ohio river from the city OF Clncih-
natl. Ohio, to the city OF Newport, hen-
lucky. and the approaches thereto, uniess
the said bridge shall be so constructed that
the channel span Of four hundred teet, as
now located, shall have under SAID span
clear Roadway, at low water, OF one nun,
cred feet below any point OF said channel E,
span, and IN such case no draw shall DC re-
CURED 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 aDove
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 q
regular grade for the approaches to sad
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 ne
deemed to be legalized, and declared TO