New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-21
Approved June 4, 1879.
GENERAL NATURE-No. SO. /

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GENERAL NATURE-No. 99T
| An ace making appropriations for the ser
vice OF the POstOfice Department for the
year ending June thirty, eighteen hun
dred and seventy three.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House OF
Representatives of the United States OF
America in Congress assembled, That the
following sums be, and the same are here
by, appropriated for the service of the Post
office Department, for the year ending June
thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy
three, out OF any moneys in the treasury
arising from the revenues of said depart
mentp in conformity to the act of July sec
ond, eighteen hundred and thirty-siX, as
follows:
For inland mail transportation thirteen
million twenty-tour thousand seven hun
dred and sixty-three dollars.
For pay of mail-messengers, six hundred
and three thousand six hundred and seven
ty-four dollars.
For pay of route agents, nine hundred
and thir5y-eight thousand and five dollars.
For pay of mail-route messengers, seventy
thousand eight hundred and fOrty-one dol
lars.
For pay of local agents. fifty-eight thou
sand four hundred and eighty six dollars.
For pay of railway posrotice clerks, nine
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For pay OF baggage-maet tiers in charge of
through mails, six thousand two hundred
dollars.
For foreign mail transportation, three
hundred thousand dollars.
For ship, steamboat, and way letters, ten
thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to postmasters, five
million five hundred and twenty-five thou
sand dollars,
For pay of clerks for postofices, fwo mil
lone hundred thousand dollars.
For pay of letter-carriers, one million four
hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For wrapping paper, thirty thousand dol
lars.
For Swine, shirty-eight thousand dollars.
For letter balances, three thousand i've
hundred dollars.
For compensation 60 blank agents and
assistants, ten thousand dollars.
For Office furniture, three thousand five
hundred dollars.
For construction Of coal vaults, six thou
sand four hundred and twenty-five dollars
and thirty-fve cents.
For. altering windows to doors in court
yard, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For altering skylights and ventilation,
one thousand two hundred and sexenty-fye
dollars.
For doors on bookcases, and other repairs
thereon, in library and dead-letter office,
three thousand one hundred and eighty
seven dollars and eighty cents.
For advertising, seventy thousand dol
lars; provided, that no part of this sum
shall be paid to any newspaper published
in the District of Columbia for advertising
any other mail routes than those in Virginia
and Maryland.
For manufacture. of adhesive postage
stamps, one hundred and sixty thousand
dollars.
For manufacture of stamped envelopes
and newspaper wrappers, four hundred and
fifty thousand dollars provided, that
no envelope, as furnished by the govern
ment, shall contain any lithOgraphing or en-
craving, and no printing except printed
request to return the letter to the writer.
For pay of distributing agent and assist
ants, and incidental expenses of agency, |
seven thousand dollars.
For mail depredatiOns and special agents,
one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
For ten additional special agents, at rates
Of compensation now provided by law,
twentY-six thousand nine hundred and fifty
dollars.
For chief of division for the Office of mail
two thousand five hundred |
dollars.
For mail bags and mail bag catcherss one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For mail-locks and keys, forty thousand |
dollars.
For postmarking and canceling stamps !
for offices, twelve thousand dollars
For preparing and publishing post-route
maps, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For balances due foreign countries, two |
hundred ana fifty thousand dollars.
For rent of pOstofices, two hundred and |
fifty thousand dollars.
For fuel for 'postotfces, one hundred and |
ZEN thousand dollars.
For lights for pOstofices, one Hundred |
and twenty thousand dollars.
For stationery and miscellaneous items
or postotfices, forty thousand dollars.
For registered package envelopes, forty |
Jwo thousand dollars
For official envelopes for the use of post
masters, forty-nine thousand dollars.
For envelopes for return of dead letters |
g the writer's, five thousand five hundred |
dollars.
For fees to United States attorneys, mar
halls, clerks of courts, and counsel neces-
arily employed by special agents of the |
oostOtfice Department, subject to the APP |
'roval of the Attorney General ten thous
md dollars.
For engraving, printing, and binding
Traits and warrants, three thousand dol
ars.
For miscellaneous items, one thousand
i've uuuuIGu dUlldES.
To pay Augustine Bacon, of GeOgia, for
ervices as post-rOute agent, four hundred
md thirty-seven dollars and sixty-nine
ents.
The bond of any married woman who
nay be appointed postmaster shall be
finding upon her and her sureties, and she
hall be liable for misconduct in Office as if
he were sole.
SEC. 2. That the postmaster of every /
ity where branch postofices or st8tioBs are
established and in operation, subject to his
upervision is hereby authorized, under the
Erection of the Postmaster General, to is
ue, or cause to be issued, by any of his as
lstants or clerks in charge of branch post
ffiees or stations, postal money orders pay
BILE at any other money order office, as
he remitteIs thereof may direct; and that
he postmaster, and his sureties, shall in
very case be held accountable upon his
ticial bond for all moneys received by
i'm or his designated assistants or clerks
n charge Of stations from the issue
i money orders under the provisions
t this act, and for all moneys which
nay come into his or their hands, or be
,iaced in his or their custody by reason of
ne transaction by them of money order
And all the provisions of law
low In force respecting the issue and the
'ayment OF money orders, and the disposal
# money order funds, in the custody of
shall apply to allmoneY orders
ssued under the authority given by this
ct, and to all moneys received from the
ssue thereof.
SEC. 3. That the following sums, or 90
much thereof as may be necessary, be, and