New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-24

General, with the rank, pay and emoluo
ments of d colonel, said appointment to date
from the time the appointee assumed the
duties of the office to till the vacancy aow
existing
! approved June +. 1872.
I !GESERA1. NATURE-Ho. 09.l
AIS act making appropriations for che seq
gice of the Post0ttice Department for the
year ending June thirty eighteeB funs
dred and seventy
! Be 1t enacted by the Senate and Pouse OF
| Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
I following sums be, and the same are here
| by, appropriated for the service of the Post
office Department. for the year ending June
$hirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventyo
threes QUE Of any moneys III the treasury
! arising from the revenues of said depart.
menty in conformity TO the acG OF July sec
ond, eighteeb hundred and thirty-Sixs as
| follows;
For inland mail transportation, thirteen
| million twentr-tour thousand sege4 hun
dred and sixty-three dollars.
For pay of mail-messengerso 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.
HOI pay VI ILIdIl-1OuUS u66stuReIsy 56N 6uIN
thousand eight hundred and forty-one dol.
For pay of focal agents. ffty-eight thou.
sand four hundred and eighty six dollars.
For pay of railway postotfice clerks, pine
hundred and fifty thousand dollars
For pay of baggage in charge of
through Wai.so six thousand two hundred
dollars.
For 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 dOllarso
For pay of clerks for postoffioes, Swo 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 dol
lars
For Irvine, thirty eight thousand dollars.
For letter balances three thousand tive
hundred dollars.
For compensation 60 blank agents and
ASSISTANTS ten thousand dollars.
For office furniture three thousand five
hundred dOllaTso
For construction Of coal vaults, six thou.
sand four hundred and twenty-five dollars
and thirty-fve CENTS
For altering windows 60 doors in couua
JdIh, tlSuG luuuIeu anu lily OOudES.
For altering skylights and ventilation,
one thousand two hundred and seyenty-tive
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.
farss provided, THAI 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 lithOgraphiDg 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, atraUes
of compensation now provided by law, !
twenty.six thousand nine hundred and fifty
dollars
For chief of division for the office of mail
depredationse two thousand five hundred
dollars.
For mail bags and mail bag catehers, one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For mail-loclss 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 postotficese two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars.
For fuel for Fpostotfices, one hundred and |
fen thousand dollars.
For lights for postoffices, 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 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 I
Postoffice Department, subject to the ap-
proval of the Attorney General. ten thous-
and dollars.
u CALS7 "a. 'AHSf PAAAiH AH5' anu ohi Ing |
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. 2. That the postmaster of every
city where branch postoffices or stations are
and in operation, subject to his
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
Dostmasters, shall apply to all money orders
ssued under the authority given by this
act, and to all moneys received from the