New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-05
For Office furniture, two thousand five

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 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 a 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 catehers, one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For mail locks and keys, forty thousand
dollars
For post-marking and canceling stamps
for postoffices, twelve thousand five hun
bred dollars.
For balances due foreign countries, two
hundred thousand dollars.
For preparing and publishing post-route
maps, twenty thousand dollars.
For rent of postotices, 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 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 writers, four Thousand dollars.
For fees to United States attorneys, clerks
of oa,1r+c apd TTpitad Stafac rparchaIS for,
thousand dollars.
For engraving, printing, and binding
drafts and warrants, three thousand five
hundred dollars.
For miscellaneous stems, 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 Chorpehning, 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
dollars.
For steamship service between San Fran
cisco and the Sandwich Islands, seventy
five thousand dollars.
SEC. 81 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 |
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 Postoffice Department for the |
year ending june thirty, eighteen hundred
and seyenty-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 |
ars) with certif& check or draft, paya
ole to the order of the Postmaster General, |
IF some reliable banking house or banking |
institution, which check or draft shall not |
be less than five per centum on the amount |
hat they would received in any one year /
under such bid. In case any bidder, on be-
ng awarded any such contract, shall fail to
enter into good and sufficient bonds to faith
July carry ont such contract, such bidder or
bidders shall forfeit the amount SO deposited |
% the United States, for the use of the Post
,tfiee Department.: otherwise, such draft or
,heck, 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 |
,ther company, or person, to proceed in the
erection of the bridge now being constructed |
over the Ohio river from the city of Cincin-
lati, Ohio, to the city OF Newport, Ken
lucky. and the approaches thereto, unless
he said bridge shall be SO constructed that
he channel span of four hundred feet, as
low located, shall have under said span
lear Roadway, at low water, of one hun
lred feet below any point of said channel
pan, and in such case no draw shall be re-
Iuired in said bridge; all the other spans of
aid bridge, which cover the Ohio river, to
dw water mark, shall have clear head
way of not less than seventy feet above
ow water mark, and the other spans of the
aid bridge, extending to each shore, may
We made Of lesss elevation than seventy feet
bove low water mark, to accommodate
ocular grade for the approaches to said
ridge. And when the foregoing require
nents shall have been complied with by the
aid Newport and Cincinnati Bridge Com
amy, the location of said bridge, its struc-
ures and approaches, shall thereupon be
eemed to be legalized, and declared to
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lied and known as a post route. The
lans for changes in such bridge, made ne
essary by this act, shall be submitted by
aid company to the Secretary of War for
is approval. And, in the event of the
'Hdge Company making the changes pro-
ided for in this act, it shall be lawful for
be said company, after they shall have
lade the changes in said bridge, and the |
pproaches thereto, as herein provided, to
lie their bill in equity against the United
tates in the circuit court of the United
tates for the southern district of Ohio and
I'LL jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon
aid court to determines: first, whether the
ridge, according to the plans on which it
as progressed at the passage of this act,
as been constructed so as substantially to
omply with the provisions of law relating
hereto and, second, the liability of the
nited States, if any there be, to the said
Dmpany by reason of the changes by this 1
ct required to be made; and if the said t
Ourt shall determine that the United II
tates is SO liable, and that said bridge was
} being built, then the said court shall
lrther ascertain and determine the amount |
the actual and necessary cost and ex- .
urred in making the changes in the
lid bridge and its approaches, as
ereby authorized or required, in
xcess of the cost of building said bridge !
nd approaches, according to the plan pro-
Osed, before the changes required by this
ct to be made. And the said court is here
y further authorized and required to pro-
led therein to final decree as in other cases
equity. And it shall be lawful for either
arty to the said suit to appeal from the
nal decree of the said circuit court to the ]
upreme Court of the United States, as in ]
Iher cases, and the Supreme Court shall 1 s
lereupon proceed to hear and determine !.
lie said case and make final decree there ,,