Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-02-09
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Sec. 80. That the Postmaster General
may establish blank agency for the Post
Office Department, to be located at WASH
ington, District of Columbia.
See 81. That the Postmaster General
may employ two special agents for the
Pacific coast, and such number of other
spscial agents as the good of the service
and the safety of the mail may require.
Sec. So. That the salary of the special
agents of the Post Office Department shall
be at the rate of not more than one thou
sand six hundred dollars per annum /; and
they shall be allowed for travelling and in
cidental expenses, while actually employ
ed in the service, sum not exceeding
five dollars a day.
Sec, 53. That whenever a special agent
is required to collect OF disburse any pub
lie money, he shall, before entering upon
such duty, give bond in such sum and
form, and with such security, as the Post
muster General may approve.
Sec. 81. That the Postmaster General
may employ, when the service requires it,
the Assistant Postmaster General and SUI
perrin teldents in his Department as spe-
cial agents and he may allow them there
for not exceeding the amount expended by
them as necessary travelling expenses
while so employed.
Sec. So. That the Postmaster General
may appoint two agents to superintend the
railway postal service, who shall be paid
out of the appropriation for the transport
tation of che mail, ut the rate of two thou
sand five hundred dollars per annum sal
ary, with an allowance for travelling and
incidental expenses, while actively en-
ployed in the service, of not more than
five dollars day and the Auditor of
the Treasury for the POst-Office Depart
ment shall charge to the appropriation for
mail transportation the salary and per
diem of the assistant superintendent of
the postal railway service; and to the ap-
propriation for the free-delivery system,
the salary and per diem of the special
agent detailed for that service; and the
salary and per diem of the special agents
employed in the money order service shall
be paid out of the proceeds of that service.
Sec. SO. That the Postmaster General
may establish resident mail agencies at
the ports of Panama and Aspinwall, New
Granada,) Havana, (Cuba,I and Saint
| United States mail steamers touch to land
and receive mails, as may in his judgment
promote the efficiency of the foreign mail
service; and may pay the agents employ
| ed by him at such ports out of the appro-
| priation for transportation of the mail a
reasonable compensation for their services
and the necessary expenses for Different,
clerk hire, office furniture, and other Incl
| dentals, to be allowed at each of such
| agencies.
may appoint an agent in charge of the
mail on board of each of the mail-steam-
ers on the routes between San Francisco,
Japan, and China, between Honolulu,
| Hawaiian Islands,) and New York to
Rio Janeiro, who shall be allowed, out OF
the appropriation for transportation OF
the mail, an annual salary of two thou
sand dollars each.
| Sec. 81. That the Postmaster General
may establish, in connection with the
mail steamship service to Japan and Chi
ma, general postal agency at Shanghai,
China, or at Yokohama, Japan, with such
branch agencies at any other ports in Chi
ma as he shall deem necessary for the
prompt and efficient management of the
postal service in those countries, and he
may pay the postal agents employed there
at reasonable compensation for their SER
vices, in addition to the necessary eX-
penses for rent, furniture, clerk-hire, and
Incidental expenses.
Sec. 80. That the Postmaster General
may employ as many route-agents as may
be necessary for the prompt anC
safe transportation of the mail, at the rate
of not less than nine hundred and not more
than one thousand two hundred dollar:
per annum.
Sec. 40. That the Postmaster Genera
NAV appoint clerks for the pupose of as
sorting and distributing the mail in rail
way post-offices, who shall be paid out o
the appropriation for transportation of thu
mail, at the rate of not more than on
thousand dollars per annum to the heaC
clerks, nor more than one thousand tw'
hundred dollars per annum to the othe
clerks.
Sec. Al. That the accounts of the posta