New Orleans Republican., 1872-10-05
IGENERAL %ATURE-No. 99.7

GENERAL SATURE-NO. 49,
An act making appropriations for the ser
vice of the POstotfiCe Department for the
year ending June thirty, eighteen hun
dred and seventy-three.
Be it enacted by the Senate and P9use 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
ment, in conformity to the act of July sec
ond, eighteen hundred and thirty-slx, 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 thirty-eight thousand and five dollars.
For pay of InaiLroute messengers, seventy
| thousand eight hundred and fOrty-one dol
| lars.
For pay of local agents. ffty-eight thou
sand four hundred and eighty six dollars.
| For pay of railway postottice clerks, nine
| hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
| For pay of baggage-mat ters IN charge OF
through mails, six thousand two hundred
| dollars.
For foreign mail transportation, three
! hundred thousand dollars.
For ship, steam boat, and way letters, zen
| Shousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
| For compensation to postmasters, five
million five hundred and twenty-five thou
| sand dollars.
For pay of clerks for poseoffices, two mil
| lion eight 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 twine, thirtyeight thousand dollars.
I For letter balances, $hree thousand five
! hundred dollars.
: For compensation 20 blank agents aad'
1 assistants, ten thousand dollars.
For office furniture three thousand FIVE
! hundred dollars.
! For construction of coal vaults, six thou
! sand four hundred and Swentytwo dollars
and thirty-five cents.
| For altering windows TO doors in court
Z; yard, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
! For altering skylghts and ventilation,
! one thousand two hundred and sevepty-tige
| dollars.
I For doorp GA bookcases, ana other repairs
| thereon, in library and dead-lettep Office
1 three thousand one hundred and eighty
seven dollars and eighty cents.
! For advertising, seventy thousand sioG-
lars provided, that no part of this sum
shall be paid to- any newspaper published
! in the District of Columbia for advertising
I any other mail routes than those in SirGinia
and Maryland.
J For manufacture OF adhesive postage
! stamps, one buudEed and sixty thousand
! dollars.
J For manufacture of stamped envelopes
| and newspaper wrappers, four hundred and
| tifty-three thousand dollars; provided, that
no envelope, as furnished by the govern
menf, shall contain any lithographing or en-
| craving, and no printing except q 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, atrares
| of compensation now provided by law,
twentY-six thousand nine hundred and fifty
! dollars.
For chief Of division for the office Of mail
depredations, tive thousand five hundred
| dollars.
For mail bags and mail bag catchers, one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For maillocEs and keys, forty thousand
dollars.
For postmarking and canceling stamps
for offices, twelve thousand dollars.
For preparing and publishing postroute
maps, twenty 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 'postofices, one hundred and
| ten thousand dollars.
| For lights for postoffices, one hundred
| and twenty thousand dollars.
| For stationery and miscellaneous items
| for postotfices, forty thousand dollars.
For registered package envelopes, forty
| two thousand dollars.
| For official envelopes for the rse of post
masters, torty-nine thousand dollars.
| For envelopes for return of dead letters
to the writers, five thousand five hundred
+ dollars.
For fees to United States attorneys, mar
| shals, clerks Of courts, and counsel neces-
sarily employed by special agents of the
| Postofice Department, subject to the ap
! proval of the Attorney General, ten thous-
| ana dollars.
| For engraving, printing, and binding
| drafts and warrants, three thousand dol
| lars.
For miscellaneous items, one thousand
| five hundred dollars.
| To pay Augustine Bacon, of Geogia, for
services as p0st-route agent, four hundred
and thirty-seven dollars and sixty-nine
| cents.
The bond of any married woman who
may be appointed postmaster shall be
| binding upon her and her sureties, and she
| shall be liable for misconduct in Office az if
| she were sole.
| SEC. 2. That the postmaster OF every
| city where branch post0thces or stations are
established and in operation, subject to his
| supervision, is hereby authorized, under the
| direction of the Postmaster General, to is
| sue, or cause to be issued, by any of his as
| sistants or clerks in charge OF branch post
offices or stations, postal money orders pay
| able at any other money order office, as
| the remitters thereof may direct; and that
| the postmaster, and his sureties, shall in
| every case be held accountable upon his
| official bond for all moneys received by
him or his designated assistants Or clerks
| in charge of stations from the issue
| of money orders under the provisions
| of this act, and for all moneys which
may come into his or their hands, or be
! placed in his OF their custody by reason of
| the transaction by them OF money order
| business. And all the provisions of law
| now IN force respecting the Issue and the
| payment Of money orders, and the disposal
| Of money order funds, in the custody OF
postmasters, shall apply to all money orders
issued under the authority given by this
| act, and to all moneys received from the
| issue thereof.
| SEC. 3. That the following sums, or so
! much thereof as may be necessary, be, and