New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-12
June !. 1872
9GENERA2s NAEERE~Eos %

SGENERAR NAyGRE~ES0o 99.I
An act making appropriations for the ser
vice Of she Postottice Department for the
Scar ending June thirty. eighteen hume
sired and s~eyenty-threeo
} Be It enacted by the Senate and Pouse OF
! Representatives of the United States OF
I America in Congress assembled, That the
: following sums ben and the same are here
by, appropriated for the ~seryice Of the POST
Office Departments for the year ending June
! $hiFfietho eighteen hundred and seventys
threep out OF any moneys in the treasury
! arising trom the seventies Of said Gepart-
mentp in conformity to tue act of July sece
ondo eighteen hundred and thjrtyosixe as
f~o1lOwss
! For jn9and ma3I Transportation, thirteen
million 3wenty-tour thousand seven hun
dred and siXty-three dollarso
For pay of mail-messengerso six hundred
and three thousand six huBdyed and seveno
tyfour dollarso
For pay of route agents. nine hundred
! and tbirty-eight THOUSAND and five dollars.
For pay of mail-route messengers, seventy
! Thousand eight hBudred and forty-one dole
For pay of ioca9 agents. ifty-eight tbouo
sand four hundred and eighty six dollars.
/ For pay of railway postotice Clerks nine
! hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For pay Of baggage-nlas tiers in charge OF
through mails9 sig thousand two hundred
| dollars.
I For foreign mali Transportation fhree
| hundred thousand dollars.
For ship, steamboat and way letters Cen
| thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
! For compensation to p~Ostmasters, five
million five hundred and twenty-five thou
sand dollars.
For pay of clerks for posfofices, two mil
lion eight hundred thousand dollars.
For pay of tter-carriers, one million four
hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For wrapping paper, thirty thousand dol
lars.
For Irvine, thirty eight thousand dollars.
For letter balaBces, 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 rhirty-tiv6 cents.
For altering windows to doors in court
yard, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For altering skylights and ventilation,
one thousand two hundred and seventy-iye
dollars.
For doors on book cases, and other repairs
thereon, i'll library and dead-letter office,
tuItb LDbLSttIu ono luluItu ana equity
seven dollars and eighty cents.
For advertising, seventy thousand dol
lars; provided, that no part of this sum
shah lie paid to any newspaper published
in the District Of Columbia for advertising
any ether mail routes than those in Virginia
ard 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 n
craving, and no printing except a 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 Gepredations and special agents,
one hundred and thirty Thousand dollars.
For ten additional special agents, at rates
Of compensation now provided by law,
twentF-six thousand zine hundred and fifty
dollars.
For chief of division for the office of mail
dcpredationao f1g0 thousand five hundred
dollars.
For mail bags and mali bag oatchers, one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars
For mailloeks and keys, forty thousand
dollars.
For post marking an8 canceling stamps
for offices, twelve thousand dollars,
For preparing and publishing post-route
faaps, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For balances due foreign countries two
hundred II fifty thousand dollars.
For rent of postothcess two hundred and
fifty thousand DOLLARS
For fuel for postotficeso one duDdred and
ten thousand dollarso
For lights for pOstofices, one hundred
9nd twenty thousand dollars.
For stationery and miscellaneous items
for pOstOtiCes, forty thousand dollars.
For registered package envelopes foVtJ-
two thousand dollars.
For official envelopes for the use Of post
masters, torty-nine0 thousand dollars.
For envelopes for return of dead letters
to the writer's five thousand five hundred
dollars.
For fees TO United States attorneys, mare
sh&ls, clerks Of courts, and counsel neces-
sarily employed by special agents Of the
Postothce Department, subject to the ap-
proval of the Attorney General ten thous-
and dollars.
For engraving, printing, and Binding
drafts and warrants three thousand dol
lars.
For miscellaneous jtemss one thousand
five hundred dollars.
To pay Augustine Bacon, of Geogia, for
services as post-route agent, four hundred
and thirty-seyen dollars and sixty-nine
cents.
The BONO OF any married woman who
may be appointed postmaster shall be
binding upon her and her s~ureties, and she
shall be liable for misconduct in Office as if
she we're sole.
SEC. 2. That the postmaster of every
city where branch pOstofices or citations are
established and in operation, subject to his
supervision, is hereby authorized, under the
Of the Postmaster General, to is
sue, or aust to be issued, by any Of his as
or clerks in charge OF branch post
offices or stations, postal money orders pay
able at any other money order office, as
the remitteIs thereof may direct; and that
the postmaster, and his .guFeties, shall in
every case be held accountable upon his
official bond for all moneys received by
hlm 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 I
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 allm6ney 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 80
much thereof as may be necessary, be- and