New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-22

million three hundred and twenty nine dol
lars.
For pay of mail messengers, five hundred
| and six thousand two hundred and fourteen
| dollars.
For pay of route agents, seven hundred
| sixty-nine dollars.
For pay of mail route messengers, fifty
nine thousand four hundred and tour dol
| lars.
| For pay of local agents, forty-ninc thou
sand and forty -four dollars.
For pay Of railway postoffice clerks. tive
| hundred and eighty-dve thousand three
hundred and thirty eight dollars.
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 tive thousand
dollars.
For Irvine, thirty-fve thousand dollars.
For letter balances, two thousand i've
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 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
ithographing or engraving, and no printing
except a 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 mailbag= and il-bag 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 tive hum
bred dollars.
For balances due foreign countries, two
hundred thousand dollars.
For preparing and publishing post-route
maps, twenty thousand dollars.
For rent Of postotiices, two hundred thou
sand dollars.
For fuel for postotfees, one hundred thou
sand dollars
For lights for postOtfices. 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. cierka-
of courts, and United States marshals e
thousand dollars.
For engraving. printing. and binding
drafts and warrants, three thousand i've
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.
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. tive hundred thou
sand dollars.
For steamship service between the United
States and Brazil, one hundred and ttty
thousand dollars.
For steamship service between San Fran
cisco and the Sandwich Islands seventy
five thousand dollars.
SEC. 3. That II 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
,ighty-three dollars. or SO much thereof as
nay be necessary. be. and the same Is here
Dy, appropriated. to be paid out of any
money i'll the treasury not otherwise appro-
,riated. to supply deficiencies in the rev
,nue of the Postoffce Department for the |
rear ending June thirty, eighteen hundred |
md seyenty-two.
SEC. 4. That all bidders. upon every mail |
QUITE. for the transportation of mails upon |
he same. shall hereafter accompany their |
lids where they exceed tive thousand dol |
ars} with certified check or draft. paya-
lie to the order OF the Postmaster General.
# some reliable banking house or banking
Institution, which check or draft shall not !
re less than five per centum on the amount |
hat they would receive III any one year
nder such bid. In case any bidder, on be-
az awarded any such contract. shall fail to
inter- into good and sufficient bonds to faith
ullv carry out such contract. such bidder OF
idders shall forfeit the amount so depos1fed
0 the United States, for the use of the 1T
flee Department: otherwise, such draft or
heck. so deposited. shall be returned to the
idder to whom it belongs.
SEC. ). That it shall be unlawful for the New
ort and Cincinnati Bridge Company. or any
Their company. or person, to proceed III the
rectiOn of the bridge now being constructed
yer the Ohio river from the city Of Cincin-
att. Ohio. to the city of Newport, Ken
ucky. and the approaches thereto unless
he said bridge shall be SO constructed that
be channel span Of four hundred feet. as
ow located. shall have under said span a
lear Roadway. at low water, of one hun
red feet below any point Of said channel
pan, and in such case no draw shall be re-
uired in said bridge; all the other spans of
aid bridge, which cover the Ohio river. to
wv water mark, shall have clear head
'ay of not less than seventy feet above
Nv water mark. and the other spans of the
aid bridge. extending to each shore, may
Q made of lesss elevation than seventy feet
bOve low water mark, to accommodate
egular grade for the approaches to said
ridge. And when the foregoing require
tents shall have been complied with by the
Md Newport and Cincinnati Bridge Com
any, the location of said bridge, it's struc-
Tres and approaches, shall thereupon be
eemed to be legalized, and declared to
g lawful structures, and shall be recoy-
led and known as a post route. The