New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-27
GENERAL NATuRE-No. Qq1

GENERAL. EATURE-No. 90
An act making appropriations for the ser,
vice Of the Postotfice Department for the
year ending June thirty, eighteen hun
bred 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 transpOl tation, 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
| ty-tOur 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 doll
lars.
For pay of local agents. ffty-eight thou.
sand fur hundred and eighty six dollars.
For pay of railway pOstOtfice clerks, nine
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
VI pay VI IElS Ii Si1dI 20 VI
through mails, six thousand two hundred
dollars
Fog foreign mali 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 postoficea. two mil.
lion eight hundred thousand dollars
For pay of letter-carriers, one million four
hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Fog wrapping paper; thirty thousand doll
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 coat vaults. six thou.
sand four hundred and twenty-five dollars
and thiTty'tive @entso
For altering windows TO 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-.ettec office,
three thousand one hundred and eighty
SGN tlb tOiidIS anu eighty CtLISs
For advertising. seventy thousand dol.
lars: provided that no part CT this sum
shall be paid to any newspaper published
in the District Of Columbia 70. advertising
anyother mail routes than these in Virginia
and Maryland
For manufacture Of adhesive postage
stamps one hundred and sixty thousand
dollars
For manufacture Of stamped envelopes
Htty-three thousand d0llarsS provided that
no envelope as furnished by the govern.
ment. shall contain any JthogIaDhing Or en-.
craving, and no printing except a printed
request to return the letter 10 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 sen additional special agents. at rates
Of compensation now provided by law.
twenty-sjx thousand nine hundred and fifty
dollars.
For chief of division for the Office Of mail
depredatiOns, two thousand i've hundred
dollars.
For mail bags and mali bag catchers. one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars
For mai!-!ocks and keys forty thousand
dollars.
For post marking and canoeing 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 post0ticeso two hundred and 1
fifty thousand dollars.
For fuel for 'postofficeso one Hundred and
ten thousand dollars.
For lights for postotfioes, 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 writers, 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
Postotfiee Department, subject to the APP
prevail 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.
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. ?. That the postmaster of every
city whore branch post0tices or citations 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 remtteIs thereof may direct; and that
the postmaster, and his suTeties shall in
every case be held accountable upon his
official bond fer ali 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 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
p0stmasters, 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