New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-16

ar1mH; 1J4uH The revenueo 81 80 y Ii
noit, n O6nfoFmity to the Act OF jury two
eighteen hundred and thirty-six.
IL For inland mail transportation, twelv
million three hundred and twenty-nine dol
For pay Of mail messengers, five hundre'
\ and six thousand.two hundred and tourteel
dollars.
For pay of route agents, seven hundred
and eighty-six thousand five hundred ant
sixty 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 postofice clerks, five
hundred and eighty-fve thousand three
hundred and thirty EIGHT dollars.
For pay of baggage masters in charge OF
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 postnasters, i've million one
hundred thousand dollars.
| For pay of clerks in postofices, two mil
hon 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;
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 tifty-nine thousand
dollars.
For manufacture of postage-stamped en-
velopes and newspaper wrappers, four hun
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 agents.
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 postOtiices, twelve thousand tive 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 postotfices, two hundred thou
sand dollars.
For fuel for postotfices, one hundred thou
sand dollars.
For lights for postoftices, one hundred and
ten thousand dollars.
For stationery and miscellaneous items
for postotfces, forty thousand dollars.
For registered package envelopes, fifteen
thousand dollars.
For official envelopes for use CT post
masters thirty thousand dollars.
For envelopes for return Of dead letters
to writers, 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 a.
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, five hundred thou
sand dollars.
For steamship service between the United
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 POstothce Department for the
year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred
and seventy-twO.
SEC. T. 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 or draft shall not 1
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 theamount 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. s. 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 channel span Of four hundred feet, as
now located, shall have under said span
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 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 |