Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-03-28


For altering sky-lights and ventilation, one
thousand two hundred and seventy-iive dol
lars.
For doors on book-cascs, and other repairs
thereon. in library aud dead-letter office,
three thousand one hundred and eighty-seven
dollars and eighty cents
For advertising, seventy thousand dollars.
Provided, That no part of this sum shall be
paid tn any newspaper published in the Dis
trict of Columbia for advertising any other
mail-routcs than those in Virginia and
Maryland.
For manufacture Of adhesive postage
stamps, one hundred and sixty thousand dol
lars.
For manufacture of stamped envelopes
and ncwspapcr-wrapers, four hundred and
iilty-three thousand dollars Provided, That
no envelope, US furnished by the government
shall contain any lithographing or engraving,
and no printing except u 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, mt rates
of compensation now provided by law. TWEEN
ty-six thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For chief of division for the office OF mail
depredations. two thousand five hundred dol
lars.
For mail-bags and mailbag catchprs. one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For mail-locks and keys forty thousand
dollars.
For post-marking and canceling stamps for
offices, twelve thousand dollars.
For preparing and publishing post-route
maps, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For balances due foreign countries. two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For rent Of post offices, two hundred aud
fifty thousand dollars.
For fuel for post offices, one hundred and
ten thousand dollars.
For lights for post offices, one hundred and
twenty thousand dollars.
For stationery and miscellaneous items for
post offices, forty thousand dollars.
For registered package-envelopes, forty
two thousand dollars.
For official envelopes for the use of post
masters, forty-nne thousand dollars.
For envelopes for return of dead-letters TO
the writers, five thousand five hundred dol
lars.
For fees to United States attorneys, mar
shnls, clerks of courts, and counsel neces-
sarily employed by special agents of the Post
Office Department, subject TO the approval of
the Attorney Gaener ten thousand dollars.
For engraving, printing, and binding drafts
and warrants, three thousand dollars.
For miscellaneous items, one thousand
five hundred dollars.
To pay Augustine Bacon, of Georgia, for
services rs post-route agent, four hundred
and thirty dollars and siXty-nne cents
The bond of any married woman who
may be appointed postmaster shall be bind
ing upor her and her sureties, and she shall
be liable for misconduct in office rs if she
were sole.
SEC. 9 That the postmaster of every city
where branch post-otlices or stations are cs-
tablished aud in operation, subject to his SUI
pervislon, is hereby authorized, under the
direction of the Postmaster General to is
sue, or to cause to be issued, by any of his AS
sistants or clerks in charge of branch post
offices or stations, postal mohey-orders pay
able ut any other money order office, as the
remitters thereof may direct and that the
postmaster, and his suretics shall in every
case be held accountable upon his off
Gals 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 he placed in his or their custody
by reason of the transaction by them OF
mOnpy-order business And all the provis-
ions of law now in force respecting the issue
and the payment of money-orders, and the
disposal of money-order funds, in the custo-
dy 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.
NEt. 4. uil the lOllOWlllB sums, OF SO
much thereof rs may be necessary, be and
the same are hereby, appropriated for the
year ending June thrtleth, eighteen hundred
and Sevcnty-three, out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely:
For steamship service between San Fran
cisco, Japan, and China, five hundred thou
sand dollars. And the Postmaster General
is hereby authorized to contract with thee
lowest bidder, within three months after the
! passage of this act, after sixty days public
notice, for Il term often years from and after
! the first day of October, eighteen hundred
and seventy-three, for the conveyance of an
! additional monthly mail on the said route, ut
II compensation not to exceed the rate per
| voyage now paid under the existing contracts,
and upon the same conditions and limitations
| Us prescribed by existing acts of Congress in
reference thereto, and the respective con
tracts made IN pursuance thereof; and the
contractors under the provisions of this sec
ton shall he required to carry the United
States mails during the existence of their
contracts, without additional charge, on all
the steamers they may run upon said line, or
any part of it, Or any branch or extension
thereof Provided That all steamships here
after accepted Tor said service shall be Of not
less than four thousand tons register each,
and shall be built OF iron, and with their uu-
| gines and machinery shall be wholly of
American construction, and shall be so con
| structed rs to be readily adapted to the armed
| naval service OF the United States in case of
war, and before acceptance the officers by
whom they are Inspected shall report To the
| Secretary of the Navy and the Postmaster
| General whether this condition has been
complied with; Provided that IN all cases
| the officers OF the ships employed IN the SER
vice herein provided for shall be citizens of
the United States, and that persons of foreign
| birth, who have according to law declared
| their intention to become citizens of the
| NtutaS a. tsDlnlnNaI us
! they were citizens within the meaning of this
| section, or OF any act or acts specified in the
act OF June twenty-elght, eighteen hundred
and siXty-iour. And the government oil the
| United States shall have the right in case of
war to take for the use OF the United States
any Of the steamers of said line, and in such
case pay u reasonable compensation therefor
! Provided, the price paid shall in no case eX-
coed the original cost of the vessel SO taken,
and this provision shall extend to and be APP
| picable to the steamers of the Brazilian line
| hereinafter provided Tor.
For steamship service between the United
States and Brazil, one hundred and fifty thou
| sand dollars.
For steamship service between San Fran
cisco and the Sandwich Islands, seventy-five
thousand dollars.
SEC. 4 That if the revenues OF the Post
Office Department shall be insufficient to
meet the appropriations made by this act,
| then the sum OF five million seven hundred
thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars,
or so much thereof MS may he necessary, be,
and the same Is hereby, appropriated, to DO
paid out OF any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated, to supply Deficiencies
ia the revenue of the Post Office Department
for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen
hundred and seventy-three. Aud section
twelve OF the act approved March third eign-
teen hundred and iorty-seven, entitled - An
act to establish certain post-routes, and for
other purposes; and section eight of the act
approved March third, eighteen hundred and
NIFTY entitled An act to reduce and
modify the rates of postage in the United
States, and for other purposes, so far rs said
sections provide for specific permanent APP
preparations for carrying free matter in the