New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-04

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ments Of colonel. said appointment to date
from the time the appointee assumed the
| duties OF the'Otfice, to ill the vacancy now
existing.
Approved June 4, 1872.
GENERAL NATURE-No. 99.]
An act making appropriations for the ser
vice of the PostUtice Department for the
year ending June thirty, eighteen hun
dred and seventy-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 Jhirty-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.mailr0ute 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 postotiice clerks, nine
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For pay Of baggag e-mas tiers in charge of
through mails, six thousand two hundred
dollars.
For foreign mail transportation, three
hundred Thousand dollars
For ship, steamboat, aud 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 postoffices. 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 hundred and twenty-five dollars
and thirty-fve cents.
For altering windows 30 doors in court
yard, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For altering skylights and ventilation,
one thousand TWO hundred and seventy-tiye
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 than those i'll 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 ard
ffty-three thousand dollars; provided, that
no envelope, as furnished by the govern
ment, skali contain any lChographing 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 catchers, one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For maillccks and keys, forty thousand
dollars.
For post-marking and canceIing 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 postOfices two hundred and |
fifty thousand dollars.
For fuel for postoft1ces one hundred and |
ten thousand dollars
For lights for postofices, one hundred |
and twenty thousand dollars.
For stationery and miscellaneous items |
for postoffices, 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
6 the writers, FIVE thousand five hundred
dollars.
For fees to United States attorneys, mar
'hals, clerks of courts, and counsel neces
sarilY employed by special agents of the
oOstotfice Department, subject to the APP
oroval of the Attorney General, ten thous-
ind dollars.
For engraving, printing, and binding
traits and warrants, three thousand dol
ars.
For miscellaneous items, one thousand
i've hundred dollars.
To pay Augustine Bacon, of Geogia. for
eryices as post-route agent, four hundred
nd thirty-seyen dollars and sixtyrnine
ents.
The bond Of any married woman who
nay be appointed postmaster shall be
lnding upon her and her sureties, and she
hall be liable for misconduct in office as if
he were sole.
Sec. 2 That the postmaster of every
lty where branch postotfices or stations are
stabiIshed and in operation, subject to his
supervision, is hereby authorized, under the
ERECTION Of the Postmaster General, to is
ue, or cause to be issued, by any of his as
Istants or clerks in charge of branch post
thces or stations. postal money orders pay
bic at any other money order office, as
he remitteTs thereof may direct; and that
ne postmaster, and his sureties, shall in
very case be held accountable upon his
thciaE bond for all moneys received by
I'M or his designated assistants or clerks
| charge of stations from the issue
money orders under the provisions
I this act, and for all moneys which
Jay come into his or their hands, or be
laced IN his or their custody by reason of
le transaction by them OF money order
usiness: And all the provisions of law
ow IN force respecting the Issue and the
ayment OF money orders, and the disposal
money order funds, in the custody of !
ostmasters, shall apply to allmoney orders
sued under the authority given by this
It. and to all moneys received from the ]