New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-12

For advertising fifty thousand dollars;
Provided, Thatno 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 tiftY-nlne thousand
| dollars.
For manufacture of postage-stamped 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.
For mail-bags and mailbag catchers, one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For mail locks and keys, forty thousand
| dollars.
For post-marking and canceling stamps
for postotfces, 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 postotfices, two hundred thou
sand dollars.
For fuel for postofices. one hundred thou
sand dollars.
For lights for postoflices 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 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.
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, aud 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. 8. 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 Postotfice 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 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 receive 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 ont 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. ). 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-
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 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 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 Less elevation than seventy feet |
above low water mark, to accommodate a
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, it's struc-
lures and approaches, shall thereupon be
deemed to be legalized, and declared to
be lawful structures, and shall be recqg- |
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 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 court is here |
by further authorized and required to pro-
coed 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