New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-08
GENERAL NATURE-No. SO.

GENERAL NATURE-No. 99J
An act making appropriations for the ser
! vice of the Postotfice Department for tn
year ending June thirty, eighteen hun
bred and seventy-three.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House o
| Representatives of the United States O
| America in Congress assembled, That tn
| following sums be, and the same are here
| by, appropriated for the service Of the Post
office Department, for the year ending Jun,
| 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 al
| follows:
For inland mail transportation, thlrteer
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 thirtyzeight thousand and five dollars
For pay ofmailr0ute 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 postotice clerks, nine
hundred and fifty thousandsdollars.
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
Jars,
For ewine, thirty eighc thousand dollars.
For letter balances, three thousand five
hundred dollars.
For compensation Co blank agents and
assistants, ten thousand dollars
For office furniture, three thousand five
hundred dollars.
For construction of coa2 faults, six thou
sand four hundred and twenty-five dollars
and thirty-fve cents.
For altering windows 60 doors In court
yard, eight hundred and fifty dollars
For altering skylights and ventilation.
one thousand 6wO hundred and seVenty-fve
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.
Foe 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 ithographing 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, atrates
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 mail-locks and keys, forty thousand
dollars.
For postmarking and canceling 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 :postotfices, one hundred and
ten thousand dollars. .
For lights for postofices, one hundred
and twenty thousand dollars.
For stationery and miscellaneous items
5or postoffices, forty thousand dollars.
For registered package envelopes, forty.
5wo thousand dollars.
For official envelopes for the use of post.
masters, torty-nine thousand dollars.
For envelopes for return of dead letters
% the writers, five thousand five hundred |
lcllars.
For fees to United States attorneys, mar
halls, clerks of courts, and counsel neces-
arily employed by special agents. of the |
3ostoffice Department, subject to the APP |
Droval Of the Attorney General, ten thous- |
nd dollars.
For engraving, printing, and binding
Traits and warrants, three thousand dol
ars.
For MISCELLANEOUS itemso one thousand
To pay Augustine Bacon, of GeOgGa, for
ervices as post-route AGENT four hundred
nd thirty-seveB dollars and sixtynine
ents. 7
The bond of any married woman VINO
nay be appointed postmaster shall be
hiding upon her and her sureties, and she :
hall be liable fog misconduct in Office as if
he were soles ?
SEC. ?. That the postmaster Of every
ity where branch postofices or stations are
and in operation, subject to his
supervision, is hereby authorized, under the
irection of the Postmaster General, to is-
ue, or cause to be issued, by any of his as
stants or clerks in charge of branch post
tices or stations, postal money orders pay
bic at any other money order Office, as
ne remitters thereof may direct: and that
le postmaster, and his sureties, shall in
very case be held accountable upon his
thclal bond for all moneys received by
Inn or his designated assistants or clerks
/ charge Of stations from the issue
money orders under the provisions
this act, and for all moneys which
lay come into his or their hands, or be
laced in his or their custody by reason of
le transaction by them OF money order
asiness. 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 all money orders
sued under the authority given by this
1t, and to all moneys received from the
sue thereof
SEC. g.. That the following Sums, or so
ugh thereof as may be necessary be, and ]