New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-09
IGENERAL NATURE-To. SO. !

existing.
Approved June 4, 1872.
| GENERAL NATURE-TO. 99.7
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 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
! dred and sixty-three dollars.
| For pay of naiI-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.
i For pay of railway postGtfice 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 postofices 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 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 coal vaults, six thou
sand four hrigAred and twenty-five dollars
and thirty-fve CENTS
For altering windows 60 doors in codrt
7 yard, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
| For altering skylights and ventilation,
| one thousand two hundred and seventy five
! dollars.
For doors on 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 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 thap 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
tifty-three thousand dollars; provided, that
no envelope, as furnished by the govern
ment shall contain any lithographiDg or en-
craving, and no printing except a 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, al 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 catcbers one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For mail-locks and keys, forty thousand
dollars,
For postmarking and canceling stamps
for Offices, twelve thousand dollars
For preparing and publishing postfoute
maps, twenty-five 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 'pOstoffices, one hundred and
ten thousand dollars.
For lights for postofices 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 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
Postofiee 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
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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 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 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 remtters 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. Aad 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 alImoney orders
issued under the authority given by this
act, and to all moneys received from the
issue thereof.
SEC. z. That Tha fo1Iouv;nc, srua or an