New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-13

, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.
! For inland mail transportation, twely
million three hundred and twenty-nine do
lars.
For nav of mail messengers, five hundre
and six thousand two hundred and fourtee
; dollars.
For pay of route agents. seven hundre,
and eighty-six thousand five hundred an
sixty nine dollars.
For nav of mail route messengers. fftv
nine Thousand four hundred and tour dol
lars.
For pay of local agents, forty-ninc thou
sand and torty-four dollars.
For pay Of railway postotice clerks, five
hundred and eighty-ive thousand three
hundred and thirty eight dollars.
For pay of baggage masters in charge Of
through mails, five thousand dollars.
For foreign mail transportation, fOurhun
dred thousand dollars.
For ship. steamboat and way letters ten
thousand dollars.
For pay of pOstmasters, hve million one
hundred thousand dollars.
| For pay of clerks in postoffices, tive mil.
lion six hundred thousand dollars.
For pay of letter carriers, one million
four hundred thousand dollars.
For wrapping paper, thirty nve thousand
dollars.
| For Irvine. thirty-fve 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 mutes
| -, N";vr;uia and
For manufacture OF adhesive postage
STAMPS, one hundred and fifty 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 agents.
one hundred and twenty tive THOUSAND do
lars.
For matilda and mailbag catchers one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For mail locks and keys, forty thousand
dollars.
For post-marking and canoeing stamps
for postoffices, twelve thousand tive hun
dred dollars.
For balances due foreign countries, two
hundred thousand dollars.
For preparing and publishing postroute
maps. twenty thousand dollars.
For rent Of postodices, two hundred thou
sand dollars.
For fuel for postof;ces, one hundred thou
sand dollars.
For lights for postoEces, one hundred and
ten thousand dollars.
For stationery and miscellaneous items
for postotiices, 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 writers. four thousand dollars.
For fees to United States attorneys. clerks
of courts and United States marshais, ten
thousand dollars.
For engraving. printing. and binding
drafts and warrants, three thousand five
hundred dollars.
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. 2 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
..1,u..i 81,
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
tivethousand 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 PostOffice 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
Iarsr 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
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 ont such contract. such bldderor
bidders shall forfeit the amount 80 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 uni la wful for the New
portland 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 Cincln-
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 a 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
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 oe
deemed to be legalized, and declared to
be lawful structures. and shall be recog-