New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-10
oproved June 4, 1872
GENERAL NATURE-No. SO. ]

GENERAL NATURE-NO. SO.
An act making appropriations for the ser
vice of the Postottice Department for the
year ending June thirty, eighteen hun
GTed 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 thirty-six, as
follows:
For inland mail transportation. thirteen
million twenty-tOur thousand seven hun
dred and sixty-three dollars.
For pay of mail-messengers six hundred
and three thousand six hundred and seven
tv-four dollars.
For pay of route agents, nine hundred
and thirty-eight thousand and five dollars.
For pay of mai-r0ute messengers, seventy
thousand eight hundred and forty-one dol
lars.
For pay of local agents. tfty-eight thou
sand four hundred and eighty.six dollars.
For pay Of railway postofice clerks, nine
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For pay OF age-masters in charge Of
through mails, six thousand two hundred
dollars.
For foreign mail transportation, three
hundred thousand dollars.
Fer ship, steamboat. and way letters, ten
thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to postmasters, five
million foe 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 COL
lars.
For Irvine, .thirty.eiglt 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- five 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-tive
dollars.
For doors on bookcases, and other repairs
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 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 lithographing oren-
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, atraUes
of compensation now provided by law,
twenty-six thousand nine hundred and fifty
dollars.
For chief of division for the office Of mail
depredalions, two thousand five hundred
dollars.
For mail bags and mail bag catchers, one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For mail-loeks and keys, forty thousand
dollars.
For post-marking and canceling stamps
for otices,otwelve 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 postOficeso Two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. !
R'or fuel for postotices. one Hundred and
ten thousand dollars.
For lights for postofices, one hundred
and twenty thousand dollars
For stationery and miscellaneous items
for postotices, forty thousand dollars.
For registered package envelopes, forty.
two thousand dollars.
For official envelopes for She use Of post
masters, torty-nine thousand dollars.
oFor envelopes for return of dead letters
to the writers, five thousand five hundred
dollars.
For fees to United States attorneys, MARI
shals, clerks % courts, and counsel neces-
sarily employed by special agents Of the
Postotfice Department, subject to the ap-
prevail of the Attorney Generals ten thous
and dollars.
For engraving. printing and binding
drafts and warrants three thousand dol
= For miscellaneous iternso she thousand
five hundred dollars,
To pay Augustine Bacon. ST Geogia, for
services as p0st-route- agent, four hundred
and thirty .segen dollars and sizty-nine
cents.
The bond of any married Woman svbo
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. ,. That the postmaster of every
2ity where branch postotfices or stations are
established and in operation, subject to bis
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 Femitters 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
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 all money 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
much thereof as may be necessary, be, and