New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-29

For inland mail transportation, twelv
million three hundred and twenty nine 0Ol
lars.
For pay of mail messengers, five hundred
and six thousand two hundred ana fourteen
dollars.
For paw of route agents, seven hundred
and eighty-six thousand tive hundred ant
sixty nine dollars. Co.,
For pay of mail route messengers, nity
nine thousand four hundred and tour COL
lars.
For pay of local agents, forty-n thou
sand and forty -four dollars.
For pay Of railway postOffice clerks, nv
hundred and eighty-ive thousand thret
hundred and thirty-eight dollars.
For pay OF baggage masters in charge o.
For foreign mail transportation, four hun
dred thousand dollars.
For ship, steamboat, and way letters, ter
thousand dollars.
For pay Of pOstmasters, five million one
hundred thousand dollars.
! For pay of clerks in postOfices, 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 five thousand dollars.
For letter balances, two thousand five
| 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
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 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 q 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
dred dollars.
For balances due foreign countries, two
hundred thousand dollars.
For preparing and publishing post-route
maps. twenty thousand dollars.
For rent Of postofices, two hundred thou
sand dollars.
For fuel for postofices, one hundred thou
sand dollars.
For lights for postofices, one hundred and
ten thousand dollars.
For stationery and miscellaneous items
for postotfices, 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 writer's, 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. 3. 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 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 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 80 deposited
to the United States, for the use Of tie Post
office Department.: otherwise, such draft or
check, go 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-
natl. Ohio, to the city Of Newport, Ken
lucky. and the approaches thereto, unless
the said bridge shall be 80 constructed that
the channel span of four hundred feet, as
now located, shall have under said span q
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 q 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 lesss elevation than seventy feet
above low water mark, to accommodate
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 he
deemed to be legalized, and declared to