New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-26

eighteen hunureu ana tnlfty-slA.
For inland mail transportation, Twelve
million three hundred and twenty nine dol
lars.
EorpaY Of mail messengers, five hundred
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, nifty
nine thousand four hundred and tour dol
lars
/. For pay of local agents, forty nine thou
sand and forty-four dollars.
For pay OF railway postoffice clerks, nye
hundred and eighty-fve thousand three
hundred and Jhirty-eight dollars.
For pay of baggage masters in charge OF
through mails, FIVE thousand dollars.
For foreign mail transportation, four hun
bred 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 postothces, 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.
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.
MIA. nt a1h
stamps, one hundred and tiftYnine thousand
dollars.
For manufacture Of postage-stamped en-
yelopes 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,
For salary of distributing agents and as
sistants. and incidental expenses of agency,
six thousand eight hundred dollars.
For mai depredations and special agents,
one hundred and twenty-five thousand dol
lars.
For nail-bags and mailbag catchers. one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For mail locks and keys, forty thousand
dollars. =.
For post-marking and caneeling stamps
for poStofiiees, 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 pestotfices, two hundred thou
sand dollars.
For fuel for postoffices, one hundred thou
sand dollars.
For lights for postoffiees, one hundred and
fen Thousand dollars,
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 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 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 III
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, tive 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-nine thousand three hundred and
eightv-three dollars, or so much thereof as
NAV 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. A. 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 OF 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. ). 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
oxer 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
bred 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 lesss elevation than seventy feet
above low water marx, 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, its struc-
lures and approaches, shall thereupon be
deemed to be legalized, and declared to
be lawful structures, and shall be recog.
nized and known as a post route. The
plans for changes in such bridge, made ne