The Portland daily press., 1871-08-22
L A w S
UNITED STATES.
PASSED AT THE
THIRD SESSION OF THE FoRTY-FIRsT
CONGRESS.
L A w S

AN ACI making appropriations lOT the service OF
the Post Office Department for the year ending
June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-two,
and for other purposes.
Re IL enacted bu the Senate and House of ReDrc-
sentatipes of the United States Of america in Con-
qress assembled. That the following be and
the same hereby, appropriated tor the service OF
the Post Office Department for the year ending June
thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. out of
any moneys in the treasury arising from the reve-
nues OF said Department, in conformity to the act
OF July two eighteen hundred and ihirty-six:
For inland mali transportation, twelve million
three hun ired and twenty -nine dollars
For paw of mail messengers, tive hundred and six
thousand two hundred and fourteen dollars.
For of route agents, seven hundre and eighty
six thousand five hundred and sixty-nine dollars.
thousand four hundred and tour dollars.
For pay of local agents, torty-nine thousand and
For pay OF railway post office clerks five hundred
and eighty-fve thousand three hundred and thirty
eight dollars.
For pay of baggage masters in charge of throupb
mails five thousand dollars.
For foreign, mail transportation, four hundred
For ship steamboat, and way letters, ten thou
Sand dollars.
For pay OF postmasters, five million ore hundred
thousand dollars
For pay of clerks in post office, two million six
hundred thousand dollars.
For pay OF letter-carriers, one million four Hmm
dred thousand dollars.
For wrapping paper, thirty five thousand dollars
For Irvine, thirty-ffve thousand dollars.
For letter balances, two thousand five hundred
dollars.
For office furniture, two thousand i've hundred
dollars.
That part of this sum shall be paid to Laper
published in the District OF Coum oia tor advertising
mail routes other than those in Virginia and Mary
land.
For manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, one
hundred and ffty-nne thousand dollars.
For manufacture Of postage ped envelopes and
newspaper wrappers four hundred and fourteen thou
sand two hundred dollars: Provided, That no en-
veope furnished by the government sha II contain
any Htn0grapnllp or engraving, ana printing
cePt printed request to return the letter to the
writer.
For salary OF distributing agents and assistants,
and Incidental expenses of agency, six thousand
eight hundred dollars.
For mail depredations and special agents. one
hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For mail-bags and mailbag catchers one hundred
and eighty thousand dollars.
For mail locks and keys, forty thousand dollars.
For post marking and cancelling stamps Tor post
offices, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
For balances due foreign countries, two hundred
thousand dollars.
For preparing and publishing post-route maps,
twenty thousand dollars.
For rent of post-offces, two hundred thousand
For fuel for post offices, one hundred thousand
dollars.
a., For lights Tor post Offices one hundred and ten
For stationery and miscellaneous items for nost
offices, forty thousand dollars
dollars.
thousand dollars
letters
lonr 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 hall be
applied to the payment Of the alleged claim against
the United States in favor OF George Chorpennng,
now pending before the Sixth Auditor of the Treas
ury, or any part thereof.
SEC. 2. That the following sums or SO much
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hereby appropriated for the year ending june thirty
eighteen hundred and seventy two out of anv
namely.
For steamship service between San Francisco
Japan, and China five hundred thousand dollars
For steamship service between the Uniled States
and Brazil, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
, For steamship service between San Francis co and
the sandwich Islands, seventy i've thou sand dollars
SEC. 3. That il the revenues of the Post Office
Department shall be insufficient to meet tine appro-
pratiOns mace by this act, then the sum of three
million nine hundred and sixty mine thousand three
hundred and eigh ythree dollars or SO much there
OF as may be necessary, be, and he same is hereby
appropriated to be paid out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated to supply def
cencies in The revenue OF the Post Office Depart
dad oF tne year ending June thirty eighteen hun
SEC. a. That all bidders, upon every mail route
LOT ne Transportation OF mails upon the same sbaIi
hereafter accompany their bids Where tbsw a n.
nve thonsind dollarsl with certified check or draft
pavaoie 70 the order OF the Postmaster General of
some reliable banking house or banking institution
which check draft shall not be less Than five nn
cent on the amount that they would receive in anv
one year under such bid. In case any bidder on
De0g awarded any snch contract shall TAIL TO enter
into good and sufficient bonds to faithfully carry out
such contract such bidder or bidders shall to- ,et
me amount 50 deposited to the United States for the
use of he Post Office Department; Otherwise sncb
dfat or cheek SO deposited, Shall be returned to the
bidder, to whom it belongs.
SIC o. That 1t shall be unlawful for the Newport
ana cincinnati Bridge .ompany, or any other COM
Pahy or person. to proceed in the erection of The
briige now being constructed over the Obio rivnr
rom Ine CITY OF Cincinnati, Ohio to the cty OF New
port, hsntucky, and the approaches thereto unless
the said bridge shall be so CONSTRUCTED that he h
mel span OF iolr hundred Ieet as now located shall
Ia I'd u4der said span clear Roadway, low water
mel span and in such draw shall be reonireJ
IN sara bridge; all the other spans of said bid
whL cover the Ohio river to low water mark shall
have clear Roadway OF not less than seventy feet
above low water mark to accommodate regular
grade tor the approa hes to said BRIDGE And when
the foregoing requirements shall have been CON-
phei with by the sad Newport and Cincinnati
Bridge Company, the location of said bridge, its
structures, and approaches, shall hereupon be
deemed to be legalized. and declared to be lawful
structures, and sh.ll be recognized and known
such b ma. route. The plans for changes in
10 20 submitted by said company to the Secre-
Of the R Rriaf for his approval And in the event
pfoydee Tor in this act it shall be- Iawtul tnr re
changes IN said b risr they shah have made the
as herein provided to file their bill in ennt tnereto
States tor the sontb ame circuit court OF the United
Jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon said anu iuli
determlne; first, VIII 'tber the bridGe 90 a souiI 10
the plans on which it has progressed al tba rae 10
OF this act, has been constructed so as snb,
to comply with the provisions of law relating tber
to; and, second the liability of the United StaIas
any there be, 10 the said company by reason of he
changes oy this act required to be made and if the
said court shall determine that the United States is
80 liible, and that sad bridge so being built
then the sad court shall further ascertain and deter
niue The amount of the actual and necessary cost
ana expenditures reasonably required TO be incurred
III making the changes in the said bridge and its ap-
cess a t as hereby authorized required, in ex-
nrnaoI III me cost of building said bridge and an
fhanaas, accGrdlng to the plan proposed before tbe
said 80. qhred by this act 10 he made And The
to proceed hereby further antborized and rennirad
euuitv nd EN- to final decree ne in otbar -. -;
the said suit fo o be lawful for either Marty to
said circuit conf from the final decree ~ +bo
United States as in " the Supreme Court 81 th |
ii snoH tnereupOn Proceed 81 anu the Supreme |
me sdlu case and make a fnaI near and determ ne
the'eupoh, II such decree sha, eeeree therein and
I1uiPahy, inc Secretary of the IN IN favor OF said
nrr not t shal out of any moneys m of the
NAM I eI WISE appropriated pay to the ne treas
pany s1,h sum OF money shall nv ib said COM
n Uour1 ne 80 decreed to be p,d to sd h SUI
con pahy; Prootded, nevertheless tbt 70 The said
shsl oe pad by The Secretary of tbe 10 money
Ine sd'G company until the Supreme Conr, 10
nied states, upon appeal taken as afora oi me
company. 0"'e III favor OF said |
O. j. g. BLAINE,
speaker Of the House of Renre ,,t:
~. ,.., SCHUYLER COLLAR
'ce-fTeSadent Of tie United States ana p,oo;,,..
u tie Senate WV VII" f'eSfdent
Approved, March 8, 1871.