New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-29

4 LARS.
For pay of mail messengers, five hundre
| and six thousand two hundred and fourtee
For pay of route agents, seven hundre
and eighty-six thousand five hundred an
sixty-nine dollars. FalTgsls 1FlaTSrTo
For pay of mail route messengers, fit,
nine thousand four hundred and tour do
lars.
] For pay of local agents, forty-ninc thol
sand and forty-four dollars:
For pay of railway pestefiee clerks, fiv
hundred and eighty-fiye thousand tire
hundred and thirty eight dollars. 81
For pay OF baggage masters in charge Q
through mails, five thousand dollars.
For foreign mail transportation, four hun
bred thousand dollars.
For ship, steamboat, and way letters, tel
thousand dollars. .sIsbesI gv5 = g
For pay of postmasters, five million on
hundred thousand dollars. 800 49,
For pay of clerks in postofices, two mil
lion six hundred thousand dollars. -'-4 2
For pay of letter carriers, one million
four hundred thousand dollars. l- 4
For wrapping paper, thirty FIVE thousand
For Irvine, thirty-fve thousand dollars
For letter Balances, two Thousand fv,
hundred dollars % ~ A1.eli-alfI
For pay of blank agents, ten Thousand
dollars. - 7lI 4ll a-lJ l-11 .ll.e @
For Office furniture, two thousand fv.
hundred dollars. -,Aj 10 En-i1t H-f %
For advertising, fifty thousand dollars
Provided, That no part Of this sum shall b.
paid to any paper published in the District
of Columbia for advertising mail routes
other than those in Virginia and Maryland
. Fer manufacture of adhesive postage
stamps, one hundred and fftY-nine thousand
dollars. !. s..t 81 III go
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
nished by the government shall contain any
lithographing or engraving, and no printing
except printed request to return the letter
to the writer. - ..-5z ..--
For salary of distributing agents and as
sistants, and incidental expenses of agency
six thousand eight hundred dollars. ..~
For mail depredations and special agen is.
one hundred and twenty-five thousand dol.
lars. .-.-,,l--.-.- +. r. =. 1900. -
For mail-bags and mailbag catchers, one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars. 80
For mail locks and keys, forty thousand
dollars Nod ~ --- - ~,
2 For post-marking and canceling stamps
for postofices, twelve thousand five hun
bred dollars. -l-5.-s -.r-.-. .--
For balances due foreign countries, two
hundred thousand dollars. ~ o..
For preparing and publishing post-route
maps, twenty Thousand dollars, .-
For rent of postotices, two hundred thou
sand dollars. Is sr+ 1870, $500 e.
For fuel for postoffees, one hundred thou
sand dollars. urr I'd h.. ~. ,-......
For lights for postotices, one hundred and
ten thousand dollars. go. ''
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. 4 -
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 five
hundred dollars. -
For miscellaneous items, one thousand
dollars. 81.
That no money appropriated by this act
shall be applied to the payment of the al
eyed claim against the United States. in
.aver OF George Chorpenning, now pending
before the Sixth Auditor OF the Treasury,
or any part thereof. --S '--a' -
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 seventytwo, out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated,
namely: ''' -'t' -
For steamship service between San Fran
,isco, Japan, and China, FIVE hundred thou
and dollars,
For steamship service between the United
states and Brazil, one hundref and fifty
thousand dollars. PSI
For steamship service between San Fran
isco and the Sandwich Islands, seventy
i've thousand dollars.
SEC. 3. That if the revenues of the Post
flee Department shall be insufficient to
Ieet the appropriations made by this act,
hen the sum of three million nine hundred
nd sixty-nine thousand three hundred and
ighty-three dollars, or SO much thereof as
nay be necessary, be, and the same is here
", appropriated, to be paid out of any
money in the treasury not otherwise appro-
rated, to supply deficiencies in the rev.
nue. of the Postofiee Department for the
ear ending June thirty, eighteen hundred
nd seventy-twO, --.-=-s
SEC. 4. That all bidders, upon every mail
QUITE, for the transportation of mails upon
u6 sd1lt, sUd1l HtItd1ttI dGkOlUpdul
ids where they exceed five thousand dol
ars) with certified check or draft, paya-
le to the order OF the Postmaster General,
some reliable banking house or banking
which check or draft shall not
e less than five per eentum on the amount
lat they would receive in any one year
nder such bid. In case any bidder, on be-
Ig awarded any such contract, shall fail to
lter into good and sufficient bonds to faith
lily carry out such contract. such bidder or
idders shall forfeit the amount so deposited
} the United States, for the use of the Post
flee Department: otherwise, such draft or
heck, so deposited, shall be returned to the |
oder to whom it belongs.
SEC. ). That it shall be unlawful for the New |
DIT and Cincinnati Bridge Company, or any |
her company, or person, to proceed in the |
ection of the bridge now being constructed /
-er the Ohio river from the city of Cincin-
ati, Ohio, to the city of Newport, Ken
cky. and the approaches thereto, unless
e said bridge shall be so constructed that |
70 channel span of four hundred feet, as
wv located, shall have under said span
ear Roadway, at low water, of one hun
ed feet below any point of said channel
IAN, and in such case no draw shall be re-
tired in said bridge; all the other spans of
id bridge, which cover the Ohio river, to
W water mark, shall have clear head
1y of not less than seventy feet above |
W water mark, and the other spans of the
id bridge, extending to each shore, may
made OF Less elevation than seventy feet
owe low water mark, to accommodate
gular grade for the approaches to said
idge. And when the foregoing require
snts shall have been complied with by the
id Newport and Cincinnati Bridge Com
ny, the location of said bridge, its struc-
res and approaches, shall thereupon be
emed to be legalized, and declared to
lawful structures, and shall be recog-
,ed and known as a post route. The +
ms for changes in such bridge, made ne
d company to the Secretary of War for
|, approval. And, in, the event of the
doe ComnanY. making the changes nro-