Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-07-24
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF The UNITED STATES,
Passed at the Second Session of the
Forty-Second Congress-. :
GENERAL NATuRg-No. 90.

ACT MAXI for the service of the
thirty eighteen hundred and seventy three '1"0
* s"G1sId ~ "A. S.aate and hOIss Of Repre-
xTtSS assembled, That the following sums be, ana
OF the Poet Office Department for the year snsGe
June thlrleth, eighteen hundred and euty tn
revenues Of said Department., n conformity to the
act 81 July second, eighteen hundred and thrty-six,
For inland mail transportation, thirteen million
twenty four thousand seven hundred and sixty
For pay Of mail messengers six hundred And
three thousand six hundred and seventy four dol
Fer paI Of r'uteag nts, nine hundred and thirty
For pay OF mail route messengers, seventy thou.-
and eight hundred and forty .ons dollars
hundred and eighty six dollars '
fST pay s Of railway pos, office clerks nine hun
For pay u baggage masters ia charge OF through
uslls, SIX thousand two hundred dollars
,fSr lorsisn mail transportation, three hundred
For ship; steam6oat and way letters, ten thousand
seven hundred and nifty dollars.
noE con nsaii1n tS po.tmas.ers FIVE million five
hundred Thousand dollars N'
dreo and twenty five thous and dollars
Ecr Wrapping paper, thirty thousand dollars.
fOr tslEe thirty eight thousand dollars.
Tor letter balances, three thousand i've hundred
For compensation to blank agents and assistants
ten thousand dollars.
Dor ofhee furniture, three thousand five hundred
For construction Of coal vaults, six thousand
four hundred and twenty-five dollars and thirty
For Altering windows to doors in courtyard eight
For altering sky lights and ventilation, one thou
ssrd Two INJURED n and seventy hye dollars
on, In library and dead letter Office three thou sand
cents.
For advertising, seventy thousand dollars: Pro
BewspapeI published in the District of Columbia for
ADV eEtisns any other mail routes than those in
For manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, one
hundred and sixty Thousand dollars
paper wTaRpers four hundred and fifty three thou
nished by the government, shall contain any iith-
CgIaphing or engraving, and printing except q
For pay OF distributing agent and assistants and
Incidental expenses Of agency, seven thousand dol
For nail depredatious and special agents, one
hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
pensstion now provided BY law, twenty SIX thou
Sand nine hundred end fifty dollars
For chief Of division for the office of mail depre-
cations, two thousand five hundred dollars.
srsS ald mai Gsgs and mail bag satehers, one hun
ror mall locks AID Keys, forty thousand dollars
:, mar kIpe and csncellins stamps, twenty
For PREPARING and Publishing post route maps,
I0r bsianees due foreign countries, two hundred
"s mp .,Vus , aonars
thousand dollars. any
=, For igei for post Offices, one hundred and ten
For ighis for post Offices, one hundred AID twenty
For stationery and miscellaneous items for most
of1ces, forty thousand dollars.
fSr rIgl-ersd yelopes, forty two thou
For Sfic.sl envelopes for the of postmasters,
ftr envelopes for return Of dead letters to the
writer's, I'VE thousand five hundred dollars
Tor fees to United States attorneys, marshsls
Sitrks Of courts, and counsel necessarily employed
% speelaI agents Of the Post Once Department,
tp Thousand dollars.
Sn.sr;aSSng printing and binding drafts and
~ fSI ,m,iscelaneous items, one thousand five hun
To pay Augustine Bacon, Of Georgia, for services
ssis T0Ste agent four hundred and thirty
apPon nS any r .s ID Who may be
her suretie, and she shall be Liable for 9seonann,
IN once as II she were sole.
branch post Offices or stations established aud
importation, subject TO his supervision 10 hereby
General % ssue, cause to be issued, By any q
h.s assistants or clerks in charge Of branch post
other money order once q he remtters thereof Of
1s sy oIset; and that the postmaster, and his
s SihfIsl bond Tor all reesived By him
tens from the issue Of money orders under sbs sro
eis,ops OF tbs act, and for all moneys which may
Their custody By Of the transaction by them
noneS order business. And all the provisions Of
money orders sne the pe.aI Of money! 6ey
Sppy 10 al IN the custody q aes.master. shall
srr--.
ns Issue thereof. AA~--
taC: s. Ths; the following sums or so mueh tbere
apprn,s De neeessary, be, and the same are hereby
s,gh.sn hundred and snHf june ,h i,
namely. treasury not otherwise appropriAted,
japan, an maship service between San Francisco.
And the Pos,nnnA, hye hundred Thousand dolisrS
No sSS oss. sdssr Width
DAYS public po,se passage Of this act after sixty
seventy three fSr q October eightssn handred snd
me-, y, mai on the said route :, an addltionA
the existing contracts. az voyage now paid under
Of Copgress in referenc. sberieed b. existing ACTS
contracts made in pursuance there the res peetive
eiors under the provisions Of tine cec1; tns con
Ie1red 10 carry the United States m.i on snail Be
existence Of their contracts, virhnn,s curing the
Charge on alt the steamers they NAV rnn ditionAl
me- or any part OF 10, any branch or eeon said
thereof: PrOridsd. That ali steamshins a.ensiou
sectpted for said service shall be Of NOT lee.
hoHssnd tons register each, and shall be bn;,. I
rem and with their engines and aehipery sh.i oI
rnony OF American construction, and shall be ~
ssnstrueied as TO be readily adapted 10 ths
armed naval service Of the United STATE. Z.