New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-15

For inland mail transportation, C"eNs
million three hundred md twenty-nlne DOL
lars.
For pay of mail messengers, five hundred
| and six thousand two hllndred ana fourteen
dollars.
For pay of route agents, seven hundred
and eighty-six thousand five hundred anu
sixty-nine dollars. ca.
For paw Of mail route messengers. nI'y
nine thousand four hundred anu 1our ooA
lars.
For paw of local agents, fOrty-nlnc thou
sand and forty four dollars.
For pay Of railway postotfice clerks. I'VE
hundred and eighty-tive thousand thIee
hundred and thirty eight dollars.
For pay OF baggage masters in charge OF
through mails. five thousand dollars.
For foreign mail transportation, tour nun
dred thousand dollars.
For shin. steamboat, and way letters, ten
thousand dollars. 80.
For pay of pOstmasters, I'VE Million one
hundred thousand dollars. :,
For nav of clerks in pOstoffces, two NIL
lion six hundred thousand dollars en-,
For pay of letter carriers. one million
| four hundred thousand dollars: j,
For wrapping paper, thirty nve thousanu
dollars.
! For Irvine. th;rty-five thousand dollars.
| For letter balances. two thousand hve
hundred dollars.
For nav 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 shail De
paid to any paper published IN tne ron1es
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, tour nun,
| bred and fourteen thousand two hundreu
| dollars; Provided, That no envelope as fur
| nished by the government shall contain any
| lithooraphing or engraving. and no printing
| except printed request to return the letter
| to the writer.
For salary of distributing agents and as
| sstants, and incidental expenses of agency,
six thousand eight hundred dollars:
| For mail depredations and special agents.
| one hundred and twenty-five thousand dol
! lars.
For mail-bags and mail bag catchers, one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For mail locks and keys, forty thousand
dollars.
For post-markng and canceling stamps
for pOsto.hces twelve thousand tive hun
dred dollars.
For balances due foreign countries. two
hundred thousand dollars.
For preparing and publishing post-route
maps, twenty thousand dollars.
For rent OF postotfces. two hundred thou
sand dollars.
For fuel for postot1ices, one hundred thou
sand dollars.
For lights for postotices, one hundred and
ten thousand dollars.
For stationery and miscellaneous items
for postoffices, forty thousand dollars
For registered package envelopes, fifteen
housand 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
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.
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, five 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 sixtynine 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-twQ.
SEC. 4. That ali 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-
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 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. 5. That it shall be unlawful for the New
port and Cincinnati Bridge Company. or any
other company, or person, to proceed in the |
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-
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 he
deemed to be legalized. and declared to
be lawful structures. and shall he recOr- |