New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-02
GENERAL NATURR-No. SO. !

| GENERAL NATURR-No. &c.
An act making appropriations for the ser
! vice of the Postotfice 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 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
ty-four 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 dol
lars.
For pay of local agents. ffty-eight thou
sand four hundred and eighty six dollars.
For pay of railway postotfice clerks, nine
For pay ct 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 five hundred and twenty-five thou
sand dollars.
For pay of clerks for postofices, two mil
lion eight hundred thousand dollars.
For pay of lettercaTriers, 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 TO doors in court
gard, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For altering skylights and ventilation,
one thousand two hundred and seyenty-fye
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 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 lithographing 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 catcfeys. one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For maillocks and keys, forty thousand
dollars.
For postmarking and canteling 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 pOstOtfices, two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars.
For fuel for postOtfices, one hundred and
ten thousand dollars
For lights for pOstoffices, one hundred
and twenty thousand dollars.
For stationery and miscellaneous items
for postofiees, 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 writer's, 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 |
Postottice Department, subject to the APP |
prevail of the Attorney General, ten thoUs- |
md 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
ervices as pOst-route agent, four hundred
md thirty-seven dollars and sixty-nine
ents.
The bond Of any married woman who
nay be appointed postmaster sh&A be
binding 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
ity where branch postoffices or citations are
established and in operation, subject to his
supervision, is hereby authorized, under the
Erection of the Postmaster General, to is
ne, or cause to be issued, by any of his as
istants or clerks in charge of branch post
fices or stations: postal money orders pay
bic at any other money order office, as
he remitters thereof may direct; and that
be postmaster, and his sureties, shall in
very case be held accountable upon his
mcial bond for all moneys received by
i'm or bis designated assistants or clerks
i 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
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
ct, and to all moneys received from the
sue thereof
SEC 3. That the following sums, or so |
lueh thereof as may be necessary, be, and |