New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-19

this act as fast as each section of said road
SEC. is. That the Texas Pacific
Railroad Company shall be, and it
is hereby, declared to be military
and post road; and for the purpose of
insuring the carrying the mails, troops, mu-
nitions of war, supplies and stores of the
United States, no act Of the COMPANY nor
any law of any State or Territory shall i'm
pede, delay or prevent the said company
from performing its obligations to the
United States in that regard; provided, that
said road shall be subject to the use of the
United States for postal, military and all
other governmental services at fair and rea-
sonable rates of compensation, not to exceed
the price paid by private parties for the same
KIND OF service, and the government shall
of the same for the purpose aforesaid.
SEC. ~. That it shall not be lawful for
any of the directors, either in their 'indi-
vldual capacity, or as members of an incor-
porated OR Joint stock company, to make
any contracts or agreements with the said
Texas Pacific Railroad Company for the
construction. equipment or running of its
road, or to have any interest therein; and
all such contracts or agreements are hereby
declared null and void, and all money or
property received under such contracts or
agreements may be recovered back for the
benefit of the company by any stakeholder.
SEC. 81. That any railroad company whose
route lies across the route OF the Texas
Pacific railroad may cross the same, and for
the purpose of crossing shall have the right
to acquire at the double minimum price all
lands, whether of the United States OF
granted by this act, which shall be needed
for right OF way two hundred feet wide
through said lands, and for depots, stations,
side-tracks. and other needful purposes, not
exceeding for such purposes forty acres at
any one station.
SEC D. That the New Orleans, Ba+on
Rouge and Vicksburg Railroad Company.
chartered by the State of Louisiana, shall
have the right to connect by the most eligi-
BILE route to be selected by said company
with the said Texas Pacific railroad at its
eastern terminus, and shall have the right
of way through the public land to the same
extent granted hereby to the said Texas
Pacific Railroad Company; and in aid of its
construction from New Orleans to Baton
Rouge, thence by the way of Alexandria, in
said State, to connect with the said Texas
Pacific Railroad Company, at its eastern
terminus, there is hereby granted to said
company, its successors and assigns, the
same number of alternate sections of public
lands per mile. in the State of Louisiana, as
are by this act granted in the State of Cali
fornia. to said Texas Pacific Railroad
Company; and said lands shall be with
drawn from market selected, and patents
issued therefor, and opened for settlement
and presumption, upon the same terms and
in the same manner and time as is provided
for and required from said Texas Pacific
Railroad Company, within said State OF
California; Provided, That said company
shall complete the whole of said road within
five years from the passage of this act.
SEC. %. That for the purpose of connect
ing the Texas Pacific railroad with the city
of San Francisco, the Southern Pacific Rail
road Company of California is hereby au-
thorized Subject to the laws of California;
TO construct line of railroad from point
at or near Tehachapa Pass, by way of Los
Angeles. to the Texas Pacific railroad at or
near the Colorado river, with tine same
rights, grants and privileges, and subject
to the same limitations, restrictions. and
conditions as were granted to said Southern
Pacific Railroad Company of California, by
the act of July twenty-seven, eighteen
hundred and sixty-six: Provided, however,
That this section shall in no way affect or
impair the rights. present or prospective OF
the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company
or any other railroad company.
Approved March 3, 1871.
GENERAL NATURE-No. 53.
An act making appropriations for the ser
vice of the POstOffice Department for
the year ending June thirty, eighteen
hundred and seventy-twO, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
the following sums be, and the same are
hereby, appropriated for the service OF the
PostOffice Department for the year ending
June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy
two, out of any moneys in the treasury
arising from the revenues of said depart
ment. in conformity to the act of July two,
eighteen hundred and thirty-six:
For inland mail transportation, twelve
million three hundred and twenty-nine dol
lars.
For pay of mail messengers, five hundred
and six thousand two hundred and fourteen
dollars.
For paw of route agents, seven hundred
and eighty-six thousand five hundred and
sixty-nine dollars.
For paw of mail route messengers, fifty
nine thousand four hundred and four dol
lars.
For pay of local agents, forty-nipc thou
sand and forty-four dollars.
For pay of railway postotfice clerks, five
hundred and eighty-fve thousand three
hundred and Jhirty-eight dollars.
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. .- No. =
For pay of clerks in postoffces, two mil
lion six hundred thousand dollars.
For pay of letter carriers, one million
fn,,, b,,D rod tbouSaud doIlara
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
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, tour hun
dred and fourteen thousand two hundred
dollars: Provided, That no envelope as FUR
nished by the government shall contain any
lthographing 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 depredatiohs and special agents,
one hundred and twenty-five thousand dol
lars.
For mail-bags and mailbag catchers, one
n; Uht fhnnSanH
For mail locks and keys, forty thousand
dollars