The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-10-15
OFFICIAL.
r AVIS OF THE UNITED STATES PASSED
IL AT THU SECOND SESSION OF THE
FORTy-SECOND CONGRESS.
GENERAL NATURE-No. 99.l

and the same are hereby appropriated for the SER
vi, g of the Post Office Department for the ysal
ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and
seyenty-three, 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 thirty-six, as follows:
For Inland mail transportation thirteen million
twenty -four thousand seven hundred and sixty
three dollars.
For pay of mail messengers, six hundred ard
three thousand six hundred and seventy -four
dollars.
For pay of route-agenrs, nine hundred and
thirty-eight thousand and Ave dollars.
For pay OF mail route messengers, seventy
thousand eight hundred and forty one dol lars.
For pay Of local agents, afty-eight thousand
four hundred and eighty six dollars.
For pay of railway post. office clerks, nine hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars.
For pay of b~aggage-masters in charge OF
through mails, six thousand two hundred dol
lars.
For foreign mail transportation, three hundred
thousand dollars.
sand seven hundred and fifty dollars,
For compensation to postmasters, five million
Ave hundred and twenty five thousand dollars.
For pay Of clerks for post offices, two million
eight hundred thousand dollars.
For pay of letter-carriers, one million four
hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For wrapping paper, thirty thousand dollars.
For twinB, thirty ght thousand dollars.
For letter-balances, three thousand five hun
dred dollars. .
For compensation to blank-agents and assist
ants, ten thousand dollars.
For office furniture, three thousand five hun
dred dollars.
For construction OF coal vaults, six thousand
four hundred and twenty-five dollars and thirty
five cents.
For altering windows to doors In courtyard,
eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For altering sky-lights and ventilation, one
thousand two hundred and seventy-fve dollars.
For doors en- 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 {:
Provided, That no part of this sum shall be paid
to any newspaper published In the District Of
Columbia for advertising any other mail rout
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 tfty.three
thousand dollars Provided, That no envelope,
ms furnished by the government, shall contain
any lithographing or engraving, and no printing
except a printed request 10 return the letter to the
writer.
For pay of distributing agent and assistants,
and incidental expenses of agency, seven thou
sand dollars.
For mail depredations and special agents, one
hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
For ten additional special agents, at rates Of
compensation n'w rovided by law, twenty
six thousaAd nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For chief of division for the Office of mail
depredations, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For mail bags and mail bag catchers, on. hun
dred and eighty thousand dollars.
For mail-locks and keys, forty thousand dol
lars.
For post marking and cancelling stamps for
offices, twelve thousand dollars.
For preparing and publishing post.route maps
twenty-five thousand dollars.
For balances due foreign countries, two hun
bred and fifty thousand dollars.
For rent Of post offices, two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars.
For fuel for post offices, one hundred and ten
thousand dollars.
For lights Tor post-ofices, one hundred and
tupptv TN IN a n nd dD1larg
For stationery and miscellaneous items for post
Offices, forty thousand dollars.
For registered package envelopes, forty-two
thousand dollars.
For official envelopes for the use of post-mas.
ters, forty-nine thousand dollars.
For envelopes for return OF dead letters to the
writer's, five thousand five hundred dollars.
For fees to United States attorn iys, marshals.
clerks of courts, and counsel necessarily en-
ployed b. special agents of the Post Office Depart
ment, subject to the approval of the Attorney
General, ten thousand dollars ,
For engraving, p~rinting, and binding drafts and
warrants, three thousand do lars.
hundred dollars.
TO pay Augustine Bacon, OF Georgia, for seryi-
ces as post route agent, four hundred and thirty
seven dollars and sixty-nine cents.
The bond of any married woman who Nay be
appointed postmaster shall be binding upon her
and her sureties, and she shall be liable for mis-
conduct in office as if she were sole.
SEC. 2. That the postmaster of every city where
branch post offices or stations are established and
In operation, subject to his supervision, 1s hereby
authorized, under the direction of the Postmas-
ter General, to issue, or to cause to be issued, by
any of his assistants or clerks in charge OF branch
post offices or stations, postal money-orders pa,
able at any other money-order office, as the remit
tiers thereof may direct; and that the postmaster,
and his sureties, shall in every case be held &C
countable upon his official bond tor 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 land all the provisions OF law now
in force respecting the l sue 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.
SGD. 8. That the following sums, or so much
thereof as may be- necessary, be, and the same are
hereby, appropriated for the year ending June
thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three
ont of any money in the treasury not otherwise
Appropriated, namely
For steamship service between San Francisco,
Japan, and China, five hundred thousand dollars;
And the General is hereby authorized
to contract with the lowest bidder, within three
months after the passage Of this act, after sixty
days public notice. for torn OF Ten years rom
hundred and seventy-three, for the conveyance of
an additional monthly mall on the said route, at a
compensation not to exceed the rate per voyage
now paid under the existing contracts, and upon
the same conditions and limitations az prescribed
by existing acts of Congress in reference thereto,
and the respective contracts made in pursuance
thereof; and the contractors under the provisions
of this section shall be required to carry the
United States mails during the existence of their
contracts, without additional charge, on all the
steamers they may run uron said line, or any part
Of 1t, or any branch or extension thereof: Pro-
pided. That all steamships hereafter accepted for
said service shall be of not less than four thousand
tons register each, and shall be built Of iron, and
with their engines and machinery shall be wholly
OF American construction, and shall be so con.
structed az to be readily adapted to the armed
naval service of the unite1 States In case of war,
and before acceptance the officers by whom they
are inspected shall report to the Secretary of The
Navy and the Postmaster General whether this
condition has been complied with Provided, That
in all cases the officers of the ships employed in
the service herein provided for shall be citizens OF
the United States, and that persons of foreign
birth, who have according to law declared theiI
intention to become citizens of the United States
may be employed as though they were citizens
within the meaning of this section, or of any &C
or acts specified In the act of June twenty-eighth
eighteen hundred and sixty-four. And the gov.
eminent of the United States shall have the right
in case OF war to take for the use of the United
States any of the steamers Of said line, and IN
such case pay q reasonable compensation there
for Propided, The price paid shall in no case ex
coed the original cost of the vessel 80 taken ant
this provision shall extend to and be app.icab
to the steamers of the Brazilian line here!nafte
provided for.
For steamship service between the United
States and Brazil, one hundred and and fifty thou
sand dollars.
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