The Portland daily press., 1872-12-11

GENERAL NATURE-No. &C.,
AN ACT making appropriations for tn service of
the Post Office Department for the year ending
june thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy three.
Be it enacted By the Senate and House of Repre-
sentotoes The United States Of America in Con-
gress assembled, That the following sum be, and
the are hereby appropriated for the service of
the Post Office Department for the year ending June
thirteth eighteen hundred and seventy out of
any moneys in the treasury arising from the revenues
of said Department in conformity to the act of july
second, eighteen hundred and thrty-six follows:
For inland mail transportation, thirteen million
twentv-four thousand seven hundred and sixtythree
dollars
For pay OF mail messengers, six hundred and
three thousand six hundred and seyentyf dollars
For pay of ronte-agents, nine hundred and thirty
eight thousand and five dollars.
For pay Of mlil-route messengers, seventy thou
sand eight hundred and torty-one dollars.
For pay of local agents ffty-eight thousand four
hundred and eighty-six dollars.
For pay of railway post-oice clerks, nine hundred
AMI fifty thousand dollars.
For pay of bagg age-masters in chargr 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 thousand dollars.
For pay OF clerks for post offices, two million eight
hundred thousand dollars.
For pay of etter-carriers, million four hundred
AMI twenty-five thousand dollars.
For wrapping paper, thirty thousand dollars.
For Irvine, thirty-eight thousand dollars.
For letter-balances three thousand five hundred
dollars.
For compensation to blank-agents and assistants
For Office furniture three thousand five hundred
dollars.
For construction of coal vaults, six thousand four
hundred and twenty-five dollars and thirty-iye
cents.
hundred and fifty dollars
Fer altering skylights and ventilation, one thou
sand two hundred and seyenty-ive dollars.
fof doors 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 dollars: Pro
rided That part of this shall be paid to any
newspaper published in the District Of Columbia for
ADVERT ing any other mailroltes than those in
For manufacture of adhesive postage-stamps one
hun ired and sixty thousand dollars.
For manufacture of stamped envelopes and news
paper-wrappers, four hundred and ffty-three thou
sand dollars: Prooided, That envelope as fur
nished by the government, shall contain any 1.-The
graphing OF engraving, and no printing except a
printed request TO return the letter the writer
For pay Of distributing agent and assistants, and
Incidental expenses of agency, seven thousand dol
lars
For mail depredations and special agents, one hun
dred and thirty thousand dollars.
For ten additional special agents. at rates of COM
pensaton now provided by law, twenty-six thousand
nine hundred aad fifty dollars.
For chief of division for the Office of mail depreda
lions, two thousand five hundred dollars
For mail bags and mailbag catchers, one hundred
and Gig atty thousand dollars.
For mail-locks and keys, forty thousand dollars
For post-marking and cancellng stamps for offices,
For preparing and publishing post-route mans
twenty-five thousand dollars.
For balances due foreign countries two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars.
thousand dollars.
For fuel for post Offices one hundred and fen tbou
sand dollars
For lights for post offices, one hundred and twenty
For stationery and miscellaneous items for most
offices, forty thousand dollars.
For registered package-envelopes, forty-two thou
For official envelopes for the use of postmasters.
forty-nine thousand dollars.
For envelopes for return of dead-letters TO the
writers. five Thousand five hundred dollars
For fees to I'm ted States ATTORNEYS marshals
clerks of courts, and counsel necessarily emnlovej hy
special agents of the Post Office Department snbecf
to the approval OF the Attorney General ten thou
sand dollars.
For engraving, printing, and binding drafts and
warrants, three thousand dollars.
For miscellaneous items, one thousand five hun
dred dollars.
To pay Augustine Bacon of Georgia. for services &c
pos-route agent four hundred and thirty dol
lars ana sixty-nine cents.
The bond Of any married woman who NAV he Fan
pointed postmaster shall be binding upon her and
her sureies and she shall be liable for misconduct in
Office as If she were sole.
SEC. 2. That the postmaster of every CITY where |
branch post-oces or stations established and in
OPERATION SUBJECT to bis supervision is hereby au-
thorize uuder the direction of the Postmaster Cen
era TO ISSUE or to cause to be issued by apv of his
assistants or clerks in charge of branch post-oces
or stations postal payable at apy other
money-order office, as the remitters thereof NAV di
rect and that the postmaster and his suretes shall
in every case be held accountable unon bio ,fi;ai
bond for all moneys received by him or his das;Snatd
assistants clerks in charge of stations fr9. tI
issue OF money-orders under the provisions Of this
act, and all moneys which maycome into bis or
their hands, or be placed in his their custody bv
reason Of the transaction by them of money order |
force respecting the issue and the payment of MONEY!
the disposal of money-order funds in the
custody Of postmasters, shall apply to all money
oruers Issued under the authority given by this act
ana TO all moneys received from the issue thereof
SEC. s. That the following sums or so much there
a. may oe necessary be- and the hereby
apPIopIiaIIel Tor the year ending June thirtietb
eighteen hundred and seventv-tbree ont of any
money in the treasury not Otherwise annro vi
namely: WISE appropriately
For steamship service between San Francisco
japan anu Inna, hye hundred thousand dollars
contract with the lowest bidder witb; LILO 70
after the passage of This act after sxlv d
notice, for term Of ten years from and pubic
first day of October, eighteen hundred nmd iaer me
three, for the conveyance of an Additional n'
mai on Cie saiu route at compensation not to ex
Contracts and upou the same conditions and 1in;ts
lions as prescribed by existing acts of Compress IA
reference thereto, and The respective contracfs 5
in pursuance thereof and the contractors under th
provisions OF this section shall be required to carry
ne oned states mails during the existence Of their
..DnlIacts, without additional charge, on all the
II O,ey may run upon said line, or any part of
ri III I any branch or extension thereof: ProUided
vice sian stheanshps hereafter accepted for said
star 81 o y, not less than four thousand tons reg
eacn, ana shall be built of iron and with their
aa machinery shall be wholly of American
ana shall be so CONSTRUCTED as m he
UniteS States a to the armed naval service of the
Inc Hsers by whom they arc ipspeeted she
General WSehnr Of the Navy and the Postmaster
with Propide5 T mus condition has been Complied
ba be- IN the service herein prvaed t for
sons of foreign b III bne United states and that per-
n e become ezd to 0f de-
ssens With thS @s smRye ed they
any act or acts specified in the act of nns OF Of