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 F ORTY—SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 256. 1872. 201 To pay Augustine Bacon, of Georgia, for services as post-route agent, Augustine ‘ four hundred and thirty-seven dollars and sixty-nine cents. B”°°“· The bond of any married woman who may be appointed postmaster Mawiod Wo; shall be binding upon her and her sureties, and she shall be liable for f}°3lpf"°;ng*€" misconduct in office as if she were sole. omeialilionds. Sec. 2. That the postmaster of every city where branch post-offices or Postal money- stations are established and in operation, subject to his supervision, is 9"d°': g‘“5’b;’ . hereby authorized, under the direction of the Postmaster—Genera.l, to issue, i,?:':;,, inycggigéu or to cause to be issued, by any of his assistants or clerks in charge of Ofbranch postbranch post-otiices or stations, postal money-orders payable at any other °m°°“’ &° 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 oflicial 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 Exjstjnglgwg force respecting the issue and the payment of money~orders, and the dis- made ¤DPli¢¤l>l¤· posal 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, or so much thereof as may be neces- Appropriation sary, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the year ending June u thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, out of any money in the San ipmucasoo, treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely: J¤D¤¤. Md For steamship service between San Francisco, Japan, and China, five Chim hundred thousand dollars. And the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized to contract with the lowest bidder, within three months after the passage of this act, after sixty-days’ public notice, for a term of ten 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, Additional at a compensation not to exceed the rate per voyage now paid under the g”0“tl‘*Y mall *° . . . . . . . e contracted for. existing contracts, and upon the same conditions and limitations as pre- p,,y_ scribed by existing acts of Congress in reference thereto, and the respective contracts made in pursuance thereof; and the contractors under the provisions of this section shall he required to carry the United States United States mails during the existence of their contracts, without additional charge, ;‘;;‘3lfvi‘:,:;‘;;";‘E_ on all the steamers they may run upon said line, or any part of it, or any @,,,,,,,1 0;,,,,-gg branch or extension thereof: Provided, That all steamships hereafter ac— What ¤to¤m· oepted for said service shall be of not less than four thousand tons register ;};;Z;({°f°l;,°:,:], each, and shall be built of iron, and with their engines and machinery service; shall be wholly of American construction, and shall be so constructed as to be readily adapted to the armed naval service of the United States in to be 1itted_t‘oicase of war, and before acceptance the officers ty whom they are inspected the ”“"*’·lS°""°"F shall report to the Secretary of the Navy and the Postmaster-General whether this condition has been complied with: Provided, That in all officers thereof cases the officers of the ships employed in the service herein provided for 2cl’° °""°“°· 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 United States, may be employed as though they were citizens within 1864,_ch. 170. the meaning of this section, or of any act or acts specified in the act of VOL ""’· P· 20]* June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. And the government of the United States shall have the right in case of war to take for Steamers may the use of the United States any of the stoamors of said line, and in such l? $“k°“ bY lh? . ., . . nited States m case pay a reasonable compensation therefor: Provided, l` he price paid Case, (,gw,_,._ shall in no case exceed the original cost of the vessel so taken, and this Pavprovision shall extend to and be applicable to the steamers of the Brazilian line hereinafter provided for. [The provision referred to for "stean1ers of the Brazilian line" was stricken from tho bil], H. R. 1070.]