Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-06-22

LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed at the Third Session Of the Forty first
| Congress.
published by AUTHORITY.l
GENERAL NATURE-No. So.
AN ACT making appropriations for the service
| of the Post Office Department for the year
ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and
seventy-two, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House Of
in Congress assembled, That the following
| sums be- and the same are hereby appropriated
for the service of the Post Office Department
for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hun
dred and seventy-two, out of any moneys in
the treasury arising from the revenues Of said
| department, in conformity to the act of July
| two eighteen hundred and thirty-six:
| For inland mail transportation, twelve million
three hundred and twenty-nine dollars
| For pay of mail messengers, FIVE hundred and
six thousand five hundred and fourteen dollars.
For pay of route agents. seven hundred and
| eighty-six thousand five hundred and sixty
! dollars. -ss
For pay of mail route messengers, fifty mine
| thousand four hundred dollars. [I ]
For pay of local agents. forty-nine thousand
forty-four dollars.
For pay of railway post Office clerks, FIVE
hundred and eighty-fve thousand three hun
dred and thirty-eight dollars.
For pay of baggage masters in charge of
| through mails, FIVE thousand dollars.
| For foreign mail transportation, four hundred
| thousand dollars.
| For ship steamboat and way letters, ten thou
sand dollars.
For pay of postmasters, FIVE million one hun
| dred thousand dollars
| For pay of clerks in post Offices TIVE million
| six hundred thousand dollars.
For pay of letter-carriers, one million four
hundred thousand dollars.
For wrapping paper, thirty five thousand dol
lars.
t. For Irvine, thirty-fve thousand dollars.
For letter-balances, two thousand five hum
bred dollars.
For pay of blank agents, ten thousand dol
lars. 40 t.|s 9--r~ ..,-
For Office furnitute, two thousand FIVE hun
For advertising fifty thousand dollars: Pro-
rided, That no part of this sum shall be paid to
any paper published in the District of Column
bia 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 postage-stamped en-
velopes and newspaper wrappers, four hundred
and fourteen thousand two hundred dollars: Pro
rided, That no envelope as furnished 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 SCENTS and assist
ants, and incidental expenses of agency. six
thousand eight hundred dollars.
For mail depredations and special agents, one
hundred and twenty five thousand dollars
For mail bags and mail bag catchers, one
hundred and eight thousand dollars.
For mail locks and keys, forty thousand dol
lars. 81 s-ss a4t
For post marking and canceling stamps for
post offices, twelve thousand five hundred dol
lars slts4l t-Ai IN
For balances due foreign countries, two hum
dred thousand dollars -s3 lfcHs q ~ r5Ar
For preparing and publishing post-route maps,
twenty thousand dollars.
For rent of post offices, two hundred thou
sand dollars. e Fa 9tl(
For fuel for post Offices, one hundred thou
sand dollars.
For lights for post offices, one hundred and
ten thousand dollars. aEH
For stationery and miscellaneous items for
post Offices. forty thousand dollars. sl !
For registered package envelopes, fifteen
For official envelopes for use of postmasters,
thirty thousand dollars.
For envelopes for return of dead letters to
writers. four thousand dollars. Fl
For fees to United States attorneys, clerks of
courts; and United States marshals, ten thou
q For engraving, printing, and binding drafts
and warrants, three thousand FIVE hundred dol
lars.
For miscellaneous items, one thousand dol
lars. afsf
That no money appropriated by this act shall
be applied to the payment of the alleged claim
against the United States in favor Of George
Chorpenning, now pending before the Sixth Au-
ditor 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 Francis
co, Japan, and China, five hundred thousand
dollars. !
For steamship service between the United
States and Brazil, ..one. hundred and fifty thou
For steamship service between San Francisco
and the Sandwich Islands, seventy-ive thous-
and dollars.
SEC. 8. That if the revenues of the Post Of
fee 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 dol
lars, or so much thereof as may be necessary
be. and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be
paid out of any money in the treasury not
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for the year ending june thirty, eighteen hun
dred and seventy-two.
SEC. f. That all bidders upon every mail
route, for the transportation OF mails upon the
same shall accompany their bids (where they
exceed five thousand dollars) with . certified
check or draft. payable to the order Of the Post
master General, of some reliable banking house
or banking institution, which check or draft
shall not be less than five per cent, on the
amount that they would receive in any one
wear under such bid. In case any bidder, on
being awarded any such contract, shall fail to
enterinto good and sufficient bonds to faithfully
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 De-
parment: otherwise, such draft or check, so
deposited, shall be returned to the bidder, to
whom it belongs. aTa mc-sT
SEC s. 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 Cincinnati,