Chapter 361. to designate, classify, and fix the salaries of persons in the railway mail service
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CHAP. 361.— An Act to designate, classify, and fix the salaries of persons in the railway mail service.July 31, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Designation, classification, and compensation of employés of railway mail service. That persons in the railway mail service, known as railway post-office clerks, route-agents, local agents, and mail-route messengers, shall, on and after the passage of this act, be designated as railway postal clerks, and divided into five classes, whose salaries shall not exceed the following rates per annum:
First class not exceeding eight hundred dollars; second class, not exceeding nine hundred dollars; third class, not exceeding one thousand dollars; fourth class, not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars; and fifth class, not exceeding one thousand four hundred *Proviso.*dollars: *Provided,* That the Postmaster-General, in fixing the salaries of clerks in the different classes, may fix different salaries for clerks of the same class, according to the amount of work done and the responsibility incurred by each, but shall not, in any case, allow a higher salary to any clerk of any class than the maximum fixed by this act for the class to which such clerk belongs.
Sec. 2. That the sums appropriated in the act entitled “An actConsolidation of certain appropriations for payment of railway postal clerks. making appropriation for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and for other purposes”, approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, for the compensation of railway post-office clerks, route agents, mail route messengers, and local agents, be consolidated into one fund, and applied for the compensation of the clerks embraced in the five classes under the title of railway postal clerks, provided in this act.
Approved, July 31, 1882.