New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-20
GENERAL NATURE-No. 99.l

GENERAL NATURE-No. 99l
An act making appropriations for the ser.
vice of the Postotice Department for the
| year ending June thirty, eighteen hun
bred and 6eyenty-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
| ment, 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 thirty-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, ffty-eight thou
| sand four hundred and eighty six dollars.
For pay Of railway postotfice clerks, nine
| hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
| For pay of baggage mas tiers in charge of
| through mails, six thousand two hundred
| dollars.
For foreign mali 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 hundredoand twenty-five thou
| sand dollars.
For pay of clerks for postofices, ewo mil
J lion eight hundred thousand dollars.
| For pay of letter carriers, one million four
| hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
| For wrapping 9a0ero thirty thousand dol
| lars,
For Irvine. thirty eight thousand dollars.
FOE letter balances three thousand five
hundred dollars
For compensation 90 Blank agents and
| assistants ten thousand ,lollarso
For 0ilicc furniture three thousand FIVE
hundred dollars
For construction Of eoaf faults, six thou
sand four hundred and twenty-five dollars
and thirty five centso
For altering windows ~ doors in court
yard, eight hundred and fifty dollars
For altering skylights and ventilation.
one thousand Two hundred and seyenty-fve
dollars
For doors on Bookcases, ana ether repairs
thereon, IN library and dead-letter office,
three thousand one hundred and eighty.
seScn dollars and eighty eentso
For ad'crtising. seventy thousand dol
lars: provided. shat no part of this sum
shall be paid to- any newspaper published
in the District of Columbia for advertising
any other mail GouteS than those in Virginia
and Maryland
stamps. one hundred and sixty thousand
dollars
For Manufacture Of stamped envelopes
and npWSnaFlpP SypnnnHga tpuT hJJDfTp6 and
tifty-three 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
depredationso two thousand five hundred
dollars.
For mail bags and mali bag catchers, one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For maillocl1s and keys, forty thousand |
dollars.
For post-marking 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 postoffices, two hundred and |
fifty thousand dollars.
For fuel for spOstOtfces. one hundred and |
ten thousand dollars.
For lights for postofices, one hundred |
and twenty thousand dollars.
For stationery and miscellaneous, items |
for postothces, forty thousand dollars.
For registered package envelopes, forty |
two thousand dollars.
For official envelopes for the use Of post |
masters, atorty-nine thousand dollars
For envelopes for return of dead letters |
to the writer's, 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
Postottice Department, subject to the APP |
proval of the Attorney General, ten thous-
and 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-seyen 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 as if
she were sole.
SEC. 2. That the postmaster of every
city where branch postOffices or atations 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
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 or 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