New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-19

and six thousand two hundred and fourteen
dollars.
For pay of route agents. seven hundred
and eighty-six thousand five hundred and
sixty-nine dollars.
For pay of mail route messengers, fifty
nine thousand four hundred and four dol
lars.
For pay of local agents, forty-ninc thou
sand and forty-four dollars.
For pay of railway postotfice clerks, five
hundred and eighty-tive thousand three
hundred and thirty eight dollars
For pay of baggage masters in charge OF
through mails, five thousand dollars.
For foreign mail transportation, four hun
dred thousand dollars.
For ship, steamboat, and way letters, ten
thousand dollars.
For pay of postmasters, five million one
hundred thousand dollars.
For pay of clerks in postoffices, two mil
lion six hundred thousand dollars.
For pay of letter carriers, one million
four hundred thousand dollars.
For wrapping paper, thirty five thousand
dollars.
For Irvine, thirty-ive thousand dollars.
For letter balances, two thousand tive
hundred dollars.
For pay of blank agents, ten thousand
dollars.
For Office furniture, two thousand five
hundred dollars.
For advertising, 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.
For manufacture of postage-stamped en-
velopes and newspaper wrappers, four hun
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 dol
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 postotfices, 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 postoftices, two hundred thou
| sand dollars.
For fuel for postoffices, one hundred thou
| sand dollars.
| For lights for postoffices, one hundred and
| ten thousand dollars.
| For stationery and miscellaneous items
for postOffiees, 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, 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
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 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 |
lafs) 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 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 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. 5. 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 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 ono 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
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
nlZed and known as post route. The
plans for changes III such bridge, made me-
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-