New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-07

/ eighteen hundred and thirty-six.
4 For inland mail transportation, y
| million three hundred and twenty-nlne doi
| lars.a - u. -,
| 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
eixty-nine dollars.
For pay OF mail route messengers, hItg
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, i've
| hundred and eighty five 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, tive million one
| hundred thousand dollars.
For paw of clerks in postOttces, 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-fve 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 ifty-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 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 agen Is,
| one hundred and twenty-five thousand do
| 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 p0stofices, two hundred thou
| sand dollars.
For fuel for postofices. one hundred thou
sand dollars.
For lights for postohices, one hundred and
| ten Thousand dollars
For stationery and miscellaneous items
for postoffices, 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.
Fer 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 Tor 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.
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| 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
| 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 S,dder, on be
| ing awarded any such contract, shall tail to
| enter into good and sufficient bonds to faith
! fully carry out such contract such bidder or
| cha1 fnit 10 : HpnnSItpH
! to the United States, for the use of the Post
| office Department: otherwise, such draft OF
| check. so deposited, shall be returned to the
| bidder to whom it belongs.
| SEC. 5. That it shall be unlaw full for the New
! port and Cincinnati Bridge Company, or any
! other company, or person, to proceed III 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 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
! dred feet below any point Of said channel
! span, and in such case no draw shall be re-
| Guired 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 mark, 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