FORTY—SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. H. Ch. 125, 126. 187 2. 57 Sec. 6. That hereafter all bidders upon every mail route for the trans- Bidders upon portation of the mails upon the same, where the annual compensation for ’°“*“ ""b°’° “‘° the service on such route at; the time exceeds the sum of five thousand ggsdzaégggbeig dollars, shall accompany their bids with ·a. certified check or draft, pay- send with bid able to the order of the postmaster-general, upon some solvent national fL"°1%f°’ “°* M? bank, which check or Graft shall not be less than five per centum on the Ocagunniipgg? amount of the annual pay on said route at the time such bid is made, and in case of new service not less than five per centzum of the amount of one years pay proposedin such bid if the bid exceed five thousand dollars per annum. In case any bidder, on being awarded any such con- if awarded the tract, shall fail to execute the same with good and sufficient sureties, ?°“"“* yd m" according to the terms on which such bid was made and. accepted, and Eg gong,. enter upon the performance of the service to the satisfaction of the post- felt the ¤¤¤<>¤¤f» master-general, such bidder shall forfeit the amount so deposited to the &°' United States, and the same shall forthwith be paid int,0 the treasury for the use of the Post-offiee Department; but if such contract shall be duly executed and the service entered upon as aforesaid, such draft or check so ‘ deposited shall be returned to the bidder. SEO. 7. That in case of the sickness, or unavoidable absence from his Chief clerk of office, of the postmaster of any m0ney—0rder p0st·0Hice, he may, with the ’“‘;"*>Ei°¥`d‘*" approval of the postmaster-general, authorize the chief clerk, or some Egg QS pggtglgl other clerk employed therein, be act in his place, and to discharge all the wr, iii &c· duties required by law of such postmaster: Provided, That the official Pcstmasivws bond given by the principal of the office shall be held to cover and apply gg1d *° c"" ms to the acts of the person appointed to act in his place in such cases : And Aéting pow provided further, That such acting officer shall, for the time being, be master m be subsubject te all the liabilities and penalties prescribed by law for the official if *° P°¤‘*l*l“» misconduct, in like cases, of the postmaster for whom he shall act. °' SEG:. 8. That the postmaster-general, whenever he may deem it com- :;;’f;;"§;s;€'; sistent with the public interest, may accept new surety upon any contract gem new Sgretm existing, or hereuiber made, for carrying the mails, in substitution for and umn contracts, release of any existing surety. S"'; Sec. 9. That the postmaster-general is hereby authorized be cause be thmaygllazm be placed be the credit of the treasurer of the United States, for the gh; ggoceigs service of the P0st—0Hice Department, the net proceeds of the money- of me mqney· order business ; and that the receipts of the P0st·0fHce Department, °"}f;c;’;*2';€(:u derived from this source, during each quarter, shall be entered by the {his SWECB, how auditor of the treasury for the Post-office Department, in theaccoxmts ¢¤ be ¢é¤f<¤¤d· of said department, under the head of “Revenue from m0ney·0rde1· business? APPROVED, April 27, 1872. CHAP. CXXVI. —-·An Act to amend the first Section of an Act entitled }‘An Act to pro- April 29, 1873. vide {or]/Ee Disposition of useless military P.eservatians," approved February iwenty- jhu:-2 , ezghceen hundred and seventy-one. Vol. xvi. p. 430. Be it enacted by the Senate and [abuse of Representatives of the Uizited States of America in Congress assembled, That the first section of an act Patent to issue entitled "An act: to provide for the disposition of useless military reser- ‘Egr*g’g‘;‘ig §‘I“£l; vations," approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy- mimmy my 1.,,, one, be amended by adding thereto the following proviso z “And provided <>¥`<i1r¢ further, That upon payment of the appraised value by John C. Smith, or a' “ °" his heirs, a patent shall be issued to said Smith, or his heirs, for so much of the military hay reserve of Fort Walla-NYfa1la, Washnxgmn Territory, as is embraced in the north half of section twenty-six, township number eight north, of range number thirty-five east of the `Willamette meridian, s0 soon after such payment as the said Smith shall prove to the satisfaction of the register and the receiver of the proper 1and—office that he was in the lawful possession of said land under the pre-emption laws of the
