New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-25
pGESERAH NATURE-N0. 99.1

GENERAL NATURE~N0. 99.J
Al act making appropriations for the ser
vice of the POstoffice 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 severn
ty-four dollars.
For pay of route agents, Rine 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 postotfce clerks, nine
! hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For pay of baggage mas tiers in charge of
{ through mailso six thousand two hundred
dollars
q! For foreign mali transportation three
| hundred thousand dollars.
| For ship, steamboats, 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 postofficeso two mile
! lion eight hundred thousand dollars
f1r+L1
| hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars
! For wrapping paper. thirty thousand doll
! iarso
For Irvine, fhfrty-eight thousand dollars.
! For r-baIancess three thousand five
! hundred doIlarso
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-fye cents.
For altering windows Co doors IN court
! yard, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
] For altering skylights and yentilatfons
! one thousand 5wo hundred and seventy-fge
| dollars
! For doors on bookcases, and other repairs
: thereon, in library and dead-letter office,
! three thousand one hundred and eightyo
! seven dollars and eighty CENTS
! For advertising, seventy thousand dol
! farss provided, that no part of this sum
| shall be paid to- any newspaper published
in the District of Columbia for advertising
anypther 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 or enc
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, atrares
of compensation now provided by law,
twenty-sIx thousand nine hundred and fifty
dolaTso
For chief of division for the office of mail
depredationso two thousand five hundred
dollars.
For mail bags and mail bag catchers. one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For maiJ-Iocks and keys, forty thousand
dollars
For postmarkfng and canceIing stamps
for offices, twelve thousand dollars.
For preparing and publishing post-goute
MAPS twenty-five thousand dollars
For balances due foreign countries. two
hundred ana fifty thousand dollars.
For rent of p0stOtticeso two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars
For fuel for 'postotticess one hundred and
ten thousand dollars,
For lights for postOtices, 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 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
POstoffice Department, subject to the ap-
prevail of the Attorney General. ten thous-
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 dollars and sixtg-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 we're sole.
SEC. .. That the postmaster of every
! city where branch postottices OF stations 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 remitters 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
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
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, OF SO
much thereof as may be necessary, be, and