New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-11
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| An act making appropriations for the ser
| vice OF the P0stOtice Department for the
| year ending June thirty 6igdteeB hun
bred and seVenty-three.
Beoit 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 Jul Y 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 mailmessengers, 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-r0ute messengers. seventy
thousand eight hundred and forty-one dol.
lars.
For pay of local agents. ffty-eighe thou
sand four hundred and eighty six dollars.
For pay Of railway postottice clerks, pine
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For pay OF baggage-mas tiers 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 tive 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, onanillion four
hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For wrappiBg 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-tive cents.
For altering Windows to doors in court
yard, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For altering skylights and ventilation,
one thousand two hundred and seventy five
dollars.
For doors on book cases, 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 mai! routes than these 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 lithographiDg or en-
craving. and no printing except printed
request to return the letter to the writer.
r For pay of distributing agent and assist
ants, and incidental expenses of agency,
seven thousand dollars
For mail depTedatiOns 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 fog the Office of snail
depredationso tive 5aousaR3 FIVE hundred
dollars.
For mail Bags and mali bag satcRers, one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars
For mail-locks and keys, forty thousand
dollars.
For post-marking and canoeing stamps
for Offices twelve thousand dollars.
For preparing and publishing post-B0ufe
maps. twenty-five thousand dollars
For balances due foreign countries swo
hundred ana fifty thousand dollars.
For rent of postOtficeEo tW@ hundred ana
fifty thousand dollars
For fuel for 'postofices, one Hundred and
ten thousand dollars.
For lights for postotfices, enc Hundred
and twenty thousand dOllarso
y,rfr,t
for post0ttices forty thousand dollars.
For registered package envelopes forty0
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 I
dollars.
For fees to United States attorneys, mar
shals, clerks OF courts, and counsel neces-
sarily employed by special agents Of the |
Postotfice Department, subject to the ap-
proval Of the Attorney General, ten thous-
and dollars.
For engraving, printing, and. binding
drafts and warrants, three thousand dol |
lars.
For miscellaneous itemso 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 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 postOfices or stations are
and in operation, subject to his
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 remitteIs thereof may direct and that
the postmaster, and his sureties, shall in
every ease be held accountable upon his
official bond for all moneys received BY
him or his designated assistants or clerks
N charge of stations from the issue
IF 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
II moneyEprder funds, in the custody OF
oostmasters, shall apply to all money orders
ssued under the authority given by this
act and to all moneys received from the
ssue thereof.
SEC. 3. That the following sums, or so
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