New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-26
IGENERAL NATURE-No. 99.f
Approved June 4, 1872.

GENERAL NATURE-NO. 99.I
An act making appropriations for the SER
vice of the Postotice Department for the
year ending June thirty, eighteen hum
dred and seventy-three.
Be- it enacted by the Senate and POuse 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.
bred 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 mailroute messengers, seventy
thousand eight hundred and forty-one dol.
lars.
For pay Of local agents. fifty-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-masters in charge 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 thou
sand dollars.
For pay of clerks for posCofices, Swo mil
lion eight hundred thousand dollars.
For pay of letter-carriers, one million four
hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Fog wrapping paper, thirty thousand dol
lars.
For Irvine, thirty eight thousand dollars.
For letter balances. three thousand five
hundred dollars.
For compensation to blank agents and
assistants, ten thousand dollars.
For office furniture, three thousand five
hundred dollars.
For construction Of coat vaults, six thou
and thirty five cents.
Fer altering windows 80 doors in court
yara, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For altering skylights and ventilation,
one thousand two hundred and seventy-fve
dollars.
For doors on bookcases, and other repairs
thereon, in library and deadIetter office,
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seven dollars and eighty cents.
For advertising, seventy thousand dol.
lars; provided, that no part of this sum
shall be paid to any newspaper published
in the District of Columbia for advertising
any other mail routes 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
ffty-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
depredatiOns, two thousand five hundred
dollars.
For mail bags and mail bag catehers, one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For mail-locks and keys, forty thousand
dollars.
For n0stmarking and caDceling stamps
for offices, twelve thousand dollars.
For preparing and publishing post-rOute
maps. twenty-five thousand dollars.
For balances due foreign countries, two
hundred ano fifty thousand dollars.
For rent of pOstOttices, two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars.
For fuel for 'postotices, one hundred and
ten thousand dollars.
For lights for postoffces, 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 use 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-
prevail 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 post-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 heE sureties, and she
shall be liable for misconduct in office as if
she were sole.
SEC. ,. That the postmaster of every
city where branch postoftices 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 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 allmoney 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