New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-03

For office furniture, TWO lhouo'1nu NV
| hundred dollars.
For ad vortising. 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 ffty-nine Thousand
| dollars. .---.--y-.r .-r-r
For manufacture of postage7stainped en-
velopes and newspaper wrappers, four nun
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 DO
lars. .Jr. slsr l. Et..t ..
For mail-bags and mailbag catchers, one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For mail locks and keys, forty thousand
dollars. -..r.g... uli.
For post-marking and canceling stamps
for postoffices, twelve thousand flve hun
dred dollars
For balances due foreign countries, two
hundred thousand dollars
maps, twenty thousand dollars.
For rent of postotfices, two hundred thou
sand dollars.
For fuel for postoffices, one hundred thou
sand dollars.
For lights for postoffces, one hundred and
ten thousand dollars.
For stationery and miscellaneous items
for postoffices, 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 marshals, ten
thousand dollars.
For engraving, printing, and binding
drafts and warrants, three thousand hve
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. .. 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. g. 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
NAV be necessary, be, and the same is here
by. appropriated, to be paid ont of any
money in the treasury not otherwise appro-
priated. to supply deficiencies in the rev
enue of the POstoffice 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 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 eentum 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 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. s. That it shall be unlawful for the New
port and Cincinnati Bridge Company, or any
other company, or person. to proceed III the
erection of the bridge now being constructed
over the Ohio river from the city of Cincin-
natl 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 Roadway, at low water, of one hun
dred 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 a 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 for
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 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 ii 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
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