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For salary Of distributing agents and a.
sistante, and incidental expenses Of agency,
SIX thousand eight hundred dollars.
For mail depred dations and special agents,
one hundred and twenty five thousand dol
lars.
For mail-baga and mailbag catchers, one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For mail locks and keys, forty thousand
For post-marking and canceling stamps
for postofices, twelve thousand i've 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 postoffices, one hundred thou
sand dollars.
For lights for postoffices, one hundred and
ten thousand dollars.
For stationery and miscellaneous items
for postofices, 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 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
hundred dollars.
4 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. 2. That the following sums. or so
much thereof as may be necessary, be, and
the 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
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 seventy-two.
Sec. 4. That all bidders, upon every mail
route, for the transportation of mails upon
the same, shall hereafter accompany their
bids fwhere 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
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ing awarded any such contract, shall fail 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
erection of the bridge now being constructed
over the Ohio river from the city of Cincin-
matt, Ohio, to 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 a |
clear headway, at low water, of. one hum |
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 receg- |
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 for |
the said company, after they shall have |
made the changes in said bridge, and the |
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 it |
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 said |
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 bridge and its approaches, as
hereby authorized or required, in
excess of the cost Of building said bridge
and approaches, according to the plan pro-
posed, before the changes required by this
act to be made. And the said conrt is here
by further authorized and required to pro-
ceed therein to final decree as in other cases
in equity. And it shall be lawful for either
party to the said suit to appeal from the |